Introducing the
Daughters of the Immaculata
A new community. A new mission.
It Is the Today of Our Lady
The Daughters of the Immaculata are women called to a new semi-contemplative religious community. Our Sisters are firstly dedicated to prayerful intercession—to be prayer warriors—and to reaching those who are far from the Marian heart of the Church, where Saint Paul says there is no spot, stain, or wrinkle.
The courageous young women whom Our Lady will call to join in the Daughters of the Immaculata in this first hour will have a particularly profound sense of the voice of Jesus and will love his preferences. They will know the summons of Our Lady and the encouragement of the Marian saints. They possess a particular, filial devotion to our most Blessed Mother and a profound love for the Church. They will understand the power and need for Total Consecration, and will be given great confidence in Our Lady to give every grace needed to be Her missionaries today.
Total Self-Gift
Our Blessed Mother, the Immaculata, is our model, help, formator, superior, and foundress. Our lives are a unique expression of Total Consecration to Jesus through the Immaculata, who stands at the foot of Jesus’ most holy Cross. Our Blessed Lady gives her Daughters every grace we need to respond to the Father’s abundant love with a joyful, total, persevering self-gift. Our Sisters know, live, and testify to the joy of being loved into being at every moment of every day, and this makes our lives a continual Magnificat. Like Our Blessed Mother going in haste to Saint Elizabeth and like the Priest offering Most Holy Communion, our Sisters will go out to carry Jesus to our brothers and sisters. We will testify to Him who says, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Contemplative Prayer
our source of strength
“To her we give our whole being, all the faculties of our soul; that is, intellect, memory, and will, and all the faculties of the body.” — Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe
Perpetually professed sisters will dedicate four hours daily to prayer in addition to the active life of the community. Our mission is simply an overflow of the Lord’s abundant goodness. “What you receive as a gift, give as a gift” (Our Lord Jesus).
Although multifaceted, our missionary activity will be of direct service to the local diocese and will be primarily prayer. We will ask our most Blessed Mother to show her desire before accepting any apostolate and will choose works that most efficaciously lead our brothers and sisters to the Marian heart of our Mother the Church.
Semi-Contemplatives
“‘Behold your mother’ (Jn 19:27). These words of Jesus from the holy Cross are the north star of the Daughters of the Immaculata. We are spiritually born kneeling at the foot of Jesus’ holy Cross with our most Blessed Mother standing beside us calling us to purity and singleness of heart.”
— The first words of the statutes of the Daughters of the Immaculata
For Our Spiritual Children
“But child, you are not yet in your homeland; so go, fortified by My grace, and fight for My kingdom in human souls;fight as a king’s child would; and remember that the days of your exile will pass quickly, and with them the possibility of earning merit for heaven. I expect from you, My child, a great number of souls who will glorify My mercy for all eternity”
—Jesus in the Diary of Saint Faustina, 1489
