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We, the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate, welcome you! It is our hope that in the cyber-time you spend with us, you will taste and see some graces and challenges that the Holy Spirit has placed upon us.
Just as the Spirit hovered over the Pentecost believers, we, too, experience the refreshment and urgency for mission that bathed the early church.
You will read the story of Margaret Mary Healy Murphy whose openness to God fashioned and continues to invigorate our Congregation. You will meet our sisters as we continue to share God’s lavish compassion with those whose human dignity has been denied.
Canonization of Margaret Mary Healy-Murphy
The Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate are delighted to announce that we have initiated the process for the canonization of our Foundress, Margaret Mary Healy-Murphy (1833-1907).
Click HERE to read a short biography of this amazing woman, “Margaret Trailblazer for the Poor!”
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News & Notes
We invite you to learn about us through our ministries and our stories, and to visit us as we endeavor each day to become the Congregation that Margaret Mary imagined.
This year (2023) we had an amazing group of women celebrating their Jubilees. Celebrating 75 years in God’ service was Sister Gabriel Hession. In the same ceremony, celebrating 70 years of service were: Sisters Kathleen Higgins, Josephine (Jo) Murray, Annette McHugh, Maura Scarry and Irene Arredondo…
On May 13, 2023, we joyfully celebrated Sister Nora Ruiz’ First Profession of Vows, as a Sister of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate in our Motherhouse chapel...
Since we are Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate, a major celebration in our Congregation is the Feast of Pentecost...
Every four years, the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate elect a new leadership team. The latest election took place in March 2023 and the following Sisters were elected so serve until 2027…
We, the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate, would like to introduce you more deeply to our foundress, Mother Margaret Mary Healy-Murphy…
On Sunday, April 18, 2021, we celebrated our 2021 Holy Spirit Sister Jubilarians! Check for the newsletter in mid-June for the brief autobiographies…
During the 2018 Christmas holidays our Sisters from Zambia, Africa were visiting our motherhouse in San Antonio, Texas and participated in our Congregational Intercultural Day…
Recently Cecilia Gutierrez Venable, our historian and archivist, was interviewed for the Texas Public Radio program “Fronteras” about our Congregation and a new book…
The Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate held a celebration June 1, 2018, for the jubilarians this year…
March 10, 2018 was a special day this year, our 125th anniversary as a religious community, Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate…
This year four Sisters will celebrate Jubilees marking special anniversaries as Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate…
This year, 2018, the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate celebrate their 125th anniversary as a congregation of religious women…
This year the theme of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) Assembly in Orlando was Being the Presence of Love: The Power of Transformation…
Many of the Sisters live at the Motherhouse. They each contribute to the atmosphere of the house…
Join with other women discerning God’s call in their lives for a day of prayer, reflection adoration, and sharing…
On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 the Sisters of the Holy Spirit & Mary Immaculate gathered, after supper, to honor Sister Marguerite Connors for her years of ministry as Archivist for the Congregation, July 2011 – September 2017…
Sisters Marguerite Connors and Miriam Mitchell attended the CWC on Friday and Saturday, July 28-29, at St. Mary's University…
After Sister Geraldine Klein was elected Congregational Leader and had to return to San Antonio to assume her new leadership role, the Sisters in Zambia nominated Sister Christina Mitchell to replace Sr. Geraldine…
As I was leaving a presentation on the Year of Mercy at St. Mark’s Parish in April, I was handed a note by one of the planners…
I am currently involved in pastoral ministry in two nursing homes, in Brownsville, Texas: Ebony Lake and Brownsville Rehabilitation Nursing Home…
After retiring from teaching at St. Philip the Apostle school in Dallas, I became involved in a very important ministry known as C.A.M…
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:30 –11:30 a.m., I volunteer at Crosspoint at the Summit – our former Motherhouse building…
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Our Beginnings
Margaret Mary Healy Murphy, foundress of our Congregation, felt moved by the Holy Spirit to respond to an urgent social need of our time: the spiritual and educational needs of African American children.
In 1888, she founded Saint Peter Claver Church and school, in San Antonio, Texas. Five years later, she founded our congregation to further her dream of justice for all people.
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Our Symbol
The Congregation’s symbol is quite unique. It was designed by our foundress, Mother Margaret Healy Murphy.
The design includes the initials of the Congregation (SHSp), the gifts of Holy Spirit (Wisdom, Intelligence, Strength, Fear of the Lord, Science, Piety, and Advice), the dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit, and an image of the mother of God, Mary Immaculate.
The Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate are the patrons of our Congregation.
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Our Home
Our ministries take us to many places, but out home—our Motherhouse—is located in San Antonio, Texas.
300 Yucca StreetSan Antonio, Texas 78203-2399