The Sisters Servants find meaning and spiritual nurturing in the work they do at Sacred Heart Home and in their various facilities and programs throughout the world.

The Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate was founded in 1878, when the Immaculate Virgin Mary appeared to three young country girls in Gietrzwald, Poland. The order came to America in 1934. In America, we have served both the old and the young, with both a pre-kindergarten program and nursing home in Baltimore and Sacred Heart Home, a nursing home community, in Hyattsville, Maryland. We also work with Catholic Charities doing outreach to the homebound elderly in Cleveland, Ohio, and we serve as sacristans at the National Shrine in Washington, DC.

Our goals are as simple as they are spiritual:

• spread the word of God,
• help individuals strengthen their lives of faith and Christian morals,
• increase devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary by imitating her hidden life,
• encourage others by good examples and deeds,
• pray for the world and its needs through the recitation of the Rosary.

Besides the Motherhouse in Poland and our ministries in the United States, we also serve communities in Italy, Lithuania, Africa and Latvia.

Because visible religious communities were subject to suppression and dispersal at the time of the congregationŐs founding, the Sisters Servants did not initially wear a traditional, distinctive habit, and still do not today.