The Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary is a worldwide congregation of women religious founded in 1790 through the inspiration of a priest and a lay woman who ardently desired to imitate Our Blessed Mother and live like her.

The Pauline mission is to prolong Christ’s self-giving in today’s world. Like Paul we are overwhelmed by the love of Jesus, “who died for me.” We feel impelled to tell about the Lord, who has “shown us great mercy.” Daily we seek to “put on the Lord Jesus Christ,” to be gradually transformed in him. We begin each day at Mass, which roots us in the gift of love, the Eucharist. At the celebration of the Eucharist we encounter Christ glorified, whom we then receive as the humble nourishment that di