THE INSTITUTE OF MARY MOST HOLY OF THE ANNUNCIATION (IOLA)

This is an institue for girls and young women, to help them serve and cooperate with the Church in giving Jesus Christ, Way, Truth and Life, to humanity, through the diffusion of Christian thought and of the means which elevate personal and social life, particularly in modern forms.

Responding to the same needs as the Institute of St. Gabriel, the young laywomen who remain in the world, in their families and in their work, also consecrate themselves totally to the apostolic service, in a manner so hidden that at times their consecration is veiled even from the eyes of their own relatives.

To the Annunciationists, as to the Gabrielites, who live in a secular world in secular dress, there open upsurroundings often inaccessible to the priest, which can be leavened by their very presence, by their spiritual desire for perfection, by their example of Christian witness lived in all places, hour by hour.