14/04/2024
Deceased Sister: Sœur Claudine Nakamura (Sister Marie Yorokobi)
10/04/2024
Deceased Sister: Sister Frances Marie Lagan
10/04/2024
Deceased Sister: Soeur Marie Claudia SANTSCHI
10/04/2024
Deceased Sister: Sister Mary Aquin Maloney (Kathleen Margaret Maloney)
09/04/2024
Deceased Sister: Sœur Madeleine FASSION
09/04/2024
Deceased Sister: Sœur Malia Visesio Paulo Katoa (Sister Marie Vincent de Paul)
09/04/2024
Deceased Sister: Sœur Angela BULLINI
We are an international congregation coming from many countries of the world to participate in evangelization by “missionary presence, by living and proclaiming the Gospel, by apostolic service” (SMSM Constitutions 14). Gathered together from different backgrounds and nationalities, we respond to the call to universal mission in 24 countries. “In respect and dialogue, we try to be bonds of communion between peoples, races and cultures, and witnesses to universal love” (ibid. 22).
In the course of our history, our congregation has been known by several different names – at the beginning - Sisters of Charity of the Third Order of Mary, and later Sisters of the Third Order Regular of Mary. Since our official approbation as a congregation of pontifical right in 1931 our official name is Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary. Today in some countries we are known simply as the “SMSM” sisters, or as the “Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary”.