July 29, 1982: The feminine branch of the Home of the Mother of the Youth was founded in Rome at St. Peter’s tomb, as a sign of fidelity to the pope. Six young women made commitments in the Home. Among these six, three of them later became the first Servant Sisters.
December 27, 1983: During the Holy Year of the Redemption, the male branch of the Home of the Mother of the Youth was founded. It also began at St. Peter's tomb in the Vatican. One of the seven young men who entered the Home, now Fr. Félix, is the general superior of the Servant Priests and Brothers.
February 20, 1984: The HM Magazine began, helping to make the Church and the Home better known. It is thanks to Our Blessed Mother that the HM Magazine has helped so many people in these past years.
September 22, 1984: Mother Ana, Sister Reme, and Sister Conchi were the first three to begin the Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother. They began to quietly live a new form of consecrated life after visiting several shrines in a pilgrimage through Europe.
September 8, 1989: Mother Ana, Sister Reme, and Sister Conchi made their first private vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience for three years in Nazareth, Holy Land. The ceremony was presided by Fr. Jeremiah R. Pastrana, the Diocesan Delegate for Religious from the diocese of Santander, Spain.
September 8, 1990: The Servant Priests and Brothers of the Home of the Mother were founded. Fr. Félix and Fr. Juan were the first to begin.
1991: Work began on the Carmen Maria Home in Barcenilla, Spain.
December 11, 1993: In the Diocese of Cuenca, Spain, Fr. Félix López was ordained. He was the first priest of the Home of the Mother to receive this honor, and it was an immense grace for the entire Home.
August 4, 1994: Elizabeth Van Keerbergen, affectionately known as Mamie, died in Santander, Spain after years of offering up all of her suffering for priests and for the Home of the Mother.
November 26, 1994: After a long wait, the Servant Priests and Brothers were officially approved. Bishop José Guerra Campos of Cuenca, Spain, approved the Servant Priests and Brothers as a Public Association of the Faithful. St. Michael’s Monastery, built in the 17th century, in Priego, Spain, was named as their headquarters.
December 8, 1994: The Servant Sisters were also approved in 1994 in Cuenca, Spain, where they founded a community.
October 28, 1995: The ordination of Fr. Juan Antonio Gomez.
December 25, 1995: The "Lay Members of the Home of the Mother" was founded.
1996: A Community of Servant Sisters was founded in Belmonte, Spain. The Servant Sisters were asked to run an institution called Immaculate Conception School for girls from dysfunctional or broken families. They were also asked to help with pastoral work in St. Bartolomé Parish.
June 10, 2001: In response to Pope John Paul II’s call for Christians to use Mass Media so as to be more effective in the new evangelization, the Home of the Mother began a television station. Dedicated to the greater glory of God, its motto is: "Yesterday, today, and always: the truth."
October 1, 2002: The Servant Sisters opened their first house outside of Spain in the heart of the Church, Rome. One of the Sisters began to work at the service of the Church in the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
March 25, 2003: The Servant Sisters founded their first home in the missions. They were sent to Chone, Ecuador, in response to a petition from Archbishop José Mario Ruiz Navas, of Portoviejo, Ecuador.
Note: The following foundations of new communities of Servant Priests and Brothers can be found here. The foundations of Servant Sisters of the Home of the Mother can be found here.
December 14, 2003: On the feast day of St. John of the Cross (one of the patron saints of the Home of the Mother), HM Radio was broadcasted for the first time on a local frequency in Northern Spain. HM Radio continues to spread the Good News throughout the world.
June 3, 2010: The Home of the Mother of All Mankind, Mother of the Youth, received the first pontifical approval. In Rome, on June 21, his Eminence Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, presented the Home of the Mother with the Decree of Approval as an International Public Association of the Faithful ad experimentum for five years.
November 7, 2011: The Servant Sisters founded their third community in Ecuador, in Guayaquil, by request of Archbishop Antonio Arregui Yarza. Their apostolic work would revolve around the Parish of Our Lady of Loreto and the school "La Consolata."
December 18, 2013: The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments granted to the Home of the Mother (approved as a Public International Association of Faithful and whose second mission is the Defense of the Honor of our Mother, especially in the privilege of her Virginity) the great gift of being able to celebrate the Solemnity of Blessed Mary, Ever Virgin.
July 2, 2014: Celebration of the Solemnity of Blessed Mary, Ever Virgin, for the first time in the history of the Church, in Valencia, Spain.
April 16, 2016: The first Servant Sisters died beneath the rubble of the community’s house at Holy Family Educational Center in Playa Prieta, Ecuador, due to the earthquake that shook the country that day. Among them was Sr. Clare Crockett, a Sister with perpetual vows, and five candidates: Jazmina, Maria Augusta, Mayra, Valeria and Catalina.
July 11, 2016: After five years of the Approval ad experimentum, the Home of the Mother received the Definitive Decree of Approval as an International Public Association of the Faithful from the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
November 2016: We closed the community of Servant Sisters in Priego, Cuenca, Spain, after 22 years of service in a home for the elderly.
February 11, 2019: Fr. Rafael Alonso, founder of the Home of the Mother, founded a new branch: the Sick of the Home of the Mother. Any sick person who feels called to pray and offer their sufferings for the Home of the Mother can become a member of the Sick of the Home of the Mother.
Page updated on February 10, 2021
