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Sister Catherine Sitja y Balbastro recently professed temporary vows as a Sister, Servant of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at a Eucharistic liturgy held at the IHM Center in Scranton.

Sister Catherine entered the IHM Congregation’s initial formation program in 1999. Since that time, she has studied the constitutions and customs of the congregation while also engaging in a variety of ministries. Sister Catherine has ministered in Scranton with the Latino community, served as a translator at Marian Community Hospital in Carbondale where she also updated the hospital’s website, assisted in the re-design and translation into Spanish of the IHM Congregation’s website, volunteered at EOTC in Scranton as an assistant teacher of computer skills for the inmates at Lackawanna Prison, and currently serves as a pastoral associate at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Forest Hills, NY.

Raised in the Provincia de Corrientes and Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sister Catherine traveled to England for study of political science. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Richmond University in London.

The vow ceremony provided the IHM Sisters the opportunity to promise their support and prayer and ask God’s grace for Sister Catherine as she begins her life-long commitment as an IHM Sister.