We, the Marian Educative community, inspired by the compassionate love of Jesus and Mary and characterized by joy and simplicity; commit ourselves to the formation of totally integrated persons of faith, peace and service through academic excellence, community involvement, Catholic, Franciscan and Filipino value system. We shall contribute towards the transformation of a just and humane society and the building of God's Kingdom on earth.

Mary Immaculate Children's Center, Inc.

Lourdes Grotto, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan

Tel. No. 691-07-59

Immaculate Heart of Mary School

Lourdes Grotto, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan

Tel. No. 691-23-01

The Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts docile to the call of the Father and the inspiration of the Spirit profess the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience and choose to follow Christ, Poor and Crucified. It puts forward as a sole and absolute goal, the glory of God, putting themselves in the service of God and brethren, according to the Franciscan spirituality, following the charism of the founder and the norms of the constitution. Thus, the congregation envisions a community of Sisters who are luminous and ardent laud of praise to the Most Holy Trinitv in the personal perfection of charity.

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The Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts was founded in Rome in the year 1886 on February 21 by Blessed Fr. Simpliciano of Nativity, OFM - a Franciscan Minor Alcantarine who opened a hospice for young wayward girls of Rome.

The Congregation expanded and reached the Philippine Archipelago in the year 1976, opened a school in order to reach out to families in the surrounding areas, helped in Parish work, that is, Sunday catechism class, feeding program in the urban poor areas, administering charitable institutions (orphanages), and teaching religious education in school.

Their mission is to reach out to the farthest end of the world and the SFSC or FSSH were now sending to Italy, South America, India, Korea, Philippines, Poland and Romania. In the Philippines, they can be found in Paranaque (Metro Manila), Tagaytay City, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan (Central Luzon), Banilad and Guadalupe (Cebu City), Sorsogon (Bicol Region), Borongan and Dolores (Eastern Samar), and General Santos City(South Cotabato).

Here in Bulacan, the sisters established the Immaculate Heart of Mary School (IHMS), a Catholic School for boys and girls with the aim of having an apostolate for the "sanctification and formation of children and young people through education." It is located at San Jose del Monte in a land donated by the Guanzon Family.

The sisters inspired by their love for children especially the underprivileged ones also founded the Mary Immaculate Children's Center, Inc. in the year 1988. It is an institution serving up the abandoned and orphaned female children and youth.

Therefore, the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts have these missions:

1. to live the Gospel and be messenger to the world of the merciful love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and of the maternal tenderness of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

2. to bring back on the way of virtue, honesty and labor those who unfortunately may have been led astray, the poor, orphaned and abandoned.

3. to contribute through prayers, sacrifice, works of mercy and evangelical witnessing of one's own consecrated life, to the coming of the kingdom of God in souls.

4. to live and radiate their proper charism with the joyous life of prayer, service and Franciscan simplicity.

5. to work towards the missionary task of evangelization.