Philippines

The first Ecclesial Team of Our Lady's Society was sent in 1975 to serve on Cagraray Island, Bacacay, Albay Philippines. From its beginnings with one priest, Fr. Tom Gier, and three lay faithful, this mission has grown to become one of the largest missions of Our Lady's Society. Our Lady's Ecclesial Teams in the Philippines currently serve in parishes in works of ministry and continued evangelization of these regions of central and southern Luzon, both on the mainland and on the remote islands. In 1999, 'Trinitas', a house of contemplation was established to be a center for spiritual renewal not only for the members of the Society but also for the diocese. Fr. Vladimir Echalas, SOLT, entered into the vision of Fr. James Flanagan to provide a place for persons to retreat to and develop greater communion with the Trinity. In the wilderness in Bonga, Bacacay, Albay, Philippines, ten acres of land have been transformed into a contemplative haven for those who seek it.

Thailand

In 1978, Our Lady's Society established in the Diocese of Ratchaburi, Thailand, the first drug rehabilitation center of its kind in the country. Our Lady's Ecclesial Team has also opened another Rehabilitation Center in the Diocese of Chonburi for the care of young women addicted to drugs. As an extension of this apostolate, it has opened two centers in Bangkok for the care of abandoned men and women afflicted with AIDS disease. Sr. Maria Rosaline Ngamvong and Sr. Mary Raphael Arunyakanont began this work and are the mainstays of the mission.

Papua New Guinea

Under the leadership of Fr. Tom Gier, Our Lady's Society began a mission in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, in the Archdiocese of Mount Hagen in 1993. The apostolate in this island mission consists primarily in parish work and shepherding the people of God in several main parishes along with their rural outstations. Our Sisters serve in the highlands and their main work is basic life skills, hygiene, job training, evangelization, catechetics and care of women. Our Lady's team also gives other specialized retreats to seminary groups, religious sisters and youth.

Colon, Mexico

Nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains sits Santa Maria del Mexicano de Colon, Queretaro. I.A.P. Santa Maria is a mission that is dedicated to the care and development of those most affected by poverty: children and the elderly. Santa Maria Mission was founded by the Rev. Clifford A. Norman, on December 28, 1975. He started with two children: a runaway and a handicapped child. The first buildings were found in ruins, being over a hundred years old. Father Norman coordinated the renovation of the buildings and today Santa Maria has grown to include six residences as well as primary and secondary schools. The Mission serves about 300 children ages 3-21. Sr. Mary Teresa Pacheco brought the SOLT Sisters to the mission and Fr. Mike Sanchez of Our Lady's Society was assigned to serve in Colon as well. They have participated in the care, education, and formation of the children and the care of the elderly.

Neuvo Laredo, Mexico

The Society of Our Lady came to serve the people of Mexico in Nuevo Laredo, at the suggestion of the Society's beloved spiritual father, Bishop Rene Gracida of Corpus Christi, who understood the great pastoral and spiritual needs that exist along the borders.Illiteracy, prostitution, religious sects, corruption, secularization, drug running, malnutrition, delinquency, gangs, and inhumane housing are some of the problems that the people of Nuevo Laredo face. Door to door evangelization is continuous, and the SOLT team counts on the help of many of the parishioners to accomplish this work.

England

When England was brought to the Faith, Our Holy Father sent the great Saint Augustine of Canterbury. He first came to the area of Kent, then to London, and finally to Rochester. Our Lady's Society was led to follow this same pattern, going first to Hythe, in the Kent area, and then to London. It was during the Octave of Easter, 1996, that Our Lady's Society began its mission to England with Father Jean Hart and Father Robert Copsey being assigned to Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Hythe, Kent. Sr. Mary of the Trinity Vaughan and Sr. Mary of the Immaculate Pantong were sent to join the mission in England and currently serve in Wales, visiting the people in their homes and sharing the faith.

Italy

The presence of Our Lady's Society in Italy began in Subiaco, a suburb of Rome, in September, 1994, with Father Peter Fremont-Smith and three seminarians. Subiaco is also the place where St. Benedict, the founder of Western Monastacism, began his discernment while living in a cave for three years. It is a gift of mercy for the Society to live and serve here, where many great saints lived and prayed as God formed them to renew the Church. The Sisters reside in the village of Marano Equo,45 minutes east of Rome, where they serve at a day care center for the Italian children. The Sisters also serve the community of Marano Equo in Catechetical work, music ministry, Communion to the Sick, home visitations and more.

Belize and Guatemala

n 1967, a group of lay members of Our Lady's Society was sent to Belize City as a medical team. The team included a medical doctor and his wife and two registered nurses. Accompanied by Sisters of Our Lady and a married deacon and his family, Father John McHugh, SOLT, joined the first team in 1969, and became pastor of the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the town of Benque Viejo del Carmen on the Belizean/Guatemalan border. With Father John's leadership, a primary and secondary school was opened in the parish. Recently, the mission has started an addition to the Primary Infant School Mount Carmel High School now has about 400 students, and is largely dependent upon about thirty volunteer teachers and administrators from the United States to staff the school. The school actively teaches a pro-life curriculum, and begins each class with prayer. Many of the vocations to Our Lady's Sisters have come through the volunteer experience in Belize.

Kansas City, Missouri

The Kansas City Ecclesial Team (KCET) is the longest active ecclesial team of the Society. It began in 1965 when the Society received sponsorship by Bishop Helmsing. The Society's works in Kansas City included serving Vietnamese refugees, parish and catechetical work, and education. It was formerly the headquarters and included houses of formation for each vocation until the Society moved to the diocese of Corpus Christ, Texas. Believing in Maria Montessori's vision for education and the development of the whole child, the Society has offered Montessori education since 1975. Sancta Maria Montessori School , founded in 1985, serves as a primary and secondary school for children in Eudora, Kansas . Our Lady's Montessori School began on Tracy Avenue and later moved to Kansas City, Kansas, in 2002. It offers education for children ages 1-9. The Society serves two parishes in the Kansas City area and offers chaplaincy for students at Kansas University.

Robstown, Texas

Primary/Elementary School A Catholic school, grades one through nine, is operated by Our Lady's Society in the parish of St. Anthony in Robstown, Texas, located on the outskirts of Corpus Christi. The pupils in this school, for the most part, come from families in the Hispanic community of Robstown. The Society of Our Lady depends greatly on volunteers for the teaching and administrative staffing in order to keep the school operating. Sisters Mary Patricia Burns and Eileen Mary Doherty serve by running a home for children in the foster care program. They also teach full-time at Incarnate Word High School in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Corpus Christi, Texas

Our Lady of Corpus Christi College On the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, Sept. 8, 1998, Our Lady's Society opened a four-year undergraduate liberal arts institution in Corpus Christi, Texas. The mission of Our Lady of Corpus Christi is to evangelize the world's young people and their nations by bringing the Gospel to the entire globe. A new Perpetual Adoration Chapel was built by the school and blessed by Bishop Edmund Carmody on February 2, 2003.

Holman/Bosque, New Mexico

Fr. James Flanagan and a handful of Sisters and Laity founded the Society of Our Lady in Holman in 1958 on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. After almost 18 years, the Society has returned to its place of origin up in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Holman is being re-opened as a place of initial formation for Sisters. In the future, the center will be developed into a place for formation, retreats, and renewal in contemplation for the whole Society, with grounds and facilities available to each of the vocations. The Sisters currently reside in Bosque, New Mexico. A little town 30 miles south of Albuquerque.

Seattle, WA
	Fr. Ramon Santa Cruz initially came to St. Alphonsus Parish in Seattle in 2002. The Sisters joined him in 2004 to help serve the parish and St. Alphonsus School. Some of their service includes teaching music and P.E. at the K-8th school, running the after school day care, and other ministries in the Parish.

Migrant Work

In 1963, the Society of Our Lady began the work of serving migrant workers and their families in the sacramental ministry and corporal works of mercy. This apostolate is based in the Diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas. The Ecclesial Team follows the migrant workers and their families through the central United States beginning in May, working their way through Kentucky, Nebraska and Wyoming and on to Indiana and Illinois. The migrant workers begin at sunrise and end at sunset and are involved in hoeing and thinning sugar beets and pinto beans, picking vegetables for truck farms, and harvesting by hand, cucumbers and tomatoes. The sisters have been deeply involved in this ministry from the beginning, participating in the celebration of daily Mass for the migrant families, in educating the children for the sacraments of Penance, First Holy Communion, Confirmation, and in the preparation for and the blessing of marriages within the Church. The team also visits and counsels families in the migrant camps and tries to meet their personal needs of health care and clothing. When the season ends each year in early October, Our Lady's ecclesial team returns to South Texas. Here they continue to serve poor and socially marginalized families, especially those in the United States-Mexican border towns.

Belcourt/Dunseith North Dakota

The Society of Our Lady began serving the native people of Northern North America in 1995 when Bishop James Sullivan of the diocese of Fargo, North Dakota asked the community to shepherd the people of St. Ann's Parish in Belcourt (right), the only town on the Turtle Mountain Indian reservation. The ten thousand people on the reservation are predominantly Catholic because the Chippewa Indians intermarried with French fur traders over one hundred and fifty years ago. Today the Society of Our Lady is also responsible for St. Anthony Catholic Church and St. Louis Church with its mission, the Immaculate Heart of Mary in nearby Dunseith. In the summer of 2003, the Society was also given the parish of St. John and its mission, St. Benedict. In nearby Dunseith, is situated a convent where the Sisters have a house of formation for the initial stage of religious life. They help to serve in the parish, school, and have a visitation ministry.