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Sister Maria Philomena grew up in Northern California as the oldest child in a family of ten. She took final vows as a Slave of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25, 1998, and is now the sub-prioress of the Sisters, as well as the vice principal of our Immaculate Heart of Mary School (grades 1-12) in Richmond, NH. Sister currently teaches religion, art, music, literature, history, English grammar & composition, drama, Latin, logic, and rhetoric at the high school level.

Sister Maria Philomena is the web mistress of IHM School’s site dedicated to Catholic education and culture, From IHM School. She has penned a number of articles for From The Housetops magazine and Catholicism.org.

IHM Spelling Bee Champions – 2012

Our annual Spelling Bee includes grades three through twelve – with the elementary school competing separately from the high school. This year’s contest was very big (lots of students, lots of good spellers), but the pressure of an audience and competition brought the contest to a speedy conclusion in just under two hours. In the [...]

Third Quarter Honor Roll

Honor Roll Maria Bosonetto (8) Anne Doucette (6) Oliver Fougere (1) Mary Grace Grinstead (2) Maria Pilar LaPlume (1) Joseph McCann (1)

Kickboxing at IHM

Brother Louis Marie and Professor Grinstead graciously gave Sister Maria Philomena an interview about their activities with the junior and senior high school boys.  Our readers might also enjoy reading an article “Violent Arts & Gentle Souls” that Sister accidentally found — it ties in quite nicely. You have been training the boys in touch [...]

Happy Easter

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March Newsletter

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Profession of Final Vows – Two Sisters

This past Sunday (March 25), our two Junior Sisters, Sister Maria Rosaria and Sister Marie Gabrielle took their final vows as Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the following words: “In the presence of almighty God, in honor of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, of Saint Joseph, of Saint Louis Marie, Saint Therese of [...]

Mud Baths in Richmond

Mud baths and mud facials are still the rage, but in Richmond you can visit IHM School at Saint Benedict Center and get a mud bath for your vehicle at no cost! Yes, after a snow day on March 1, on March 9 we had to have a mud day (the mud on the hill [...]

Our Winter Weather

Although we had very little snow this winter, the season did begin and end (?) with good storms. We had that big storm the end of October, and now March came in like a lion! Here are some pictures of the Sisters taking a Rosary walk in the snow on March 1. Of course, this [...]

Students Raise Funds for Field Trip

The life lesson of working for something you want (and not having it just handed to you) was recently tackled successfully by grades K-4, 7-8. They made plans to go to the Southwick Zoo in the spring, but even such a modest field trip is expensive; there is no leeway in our penny-pinching budget for [...]

Second Quarter Honor Roll

Honor Roll Maria Bosonetto (8) Anne Doucette (6) Oliver Fougere (1) Joseph McCann (1)