DDIM HISTORY

The Congregation of the Dominican Daughters of the Immaculate Mother [DDIM]  is a  Roman Catholic  religious institute of  diocesan right founded in Tandang Sora, Quezon City, Philippines on December 08, 1972 by Rev. Fr. Pablo Villaroel Fernandez, O.P. [1917-1992], a Spanish Dominican Friar of Our Lady of the Rosary Province in the Philippines.

On June 18, 1986, His Eminence, Jaime Cardinal Sin, D.D. approved the DDIM Constitutions and Directory. He issued a decree and erected the DDIM as Public Association of Christ’s Faithful on July 9, 1992.

On December 29, 2006, His Excellency, Most Rev. Antonio R. Tobias, D.D., Bishop Emeritus of Novaliches issued a Decree of Canonical Erection as an Institute of Diocesan Right after having obtained a Nihil Obstat from Rome, from the Sacred Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life [CICLSAL]. Its principal house is located at 872 St. Joseph, Brgy. Commonwealth, Commonwealth Avenue, 1121 Quezon City in the Diocese of Novaliches.

On November 07, 2009 DDIM was formally aggregated to the Order of Preachers as a Religious Congregation with a Diocesan Right of Recognition as declared by the Master of the Order, Very Rev. Fr. Carlos A. Azpiroz Costa, O.P. recognizing it to have been a Dominican in name and spirit for many years. With the issued decree, DDIM is formally recognized as a Dominican congregation.

Faithful to its charism of Spiritual Motherhood under the guidance of the Immaculate Mother and sharing in the ideals of St. Dominic de Guzman, the Congregation commits itself to the pursuit of TRUTH and share the fruits of this sacred search through a life of service faithful to the maternal love of Mary by giving complete Christian education to the youth and their families, sharing in the catechetical, apostolic and various ministries of the local and universal Church and striving to preserve and promote the Marian and Dominican way of life to all (cf. Constitutions p.5). 

True to its goal of giving Christian Education, the sisters administer and teach Catholic Schools and Catechesis in the parish as its primary apostolate in evangelization. Religious instruction is promoted as the essential element of Christian education. They are actively engaged both in local and foreign missions and are present in the following dioceses in the Philippines: Diocese of Novaliches, Quezon City, Diocese of Legazpi, Albay, Diocese of Malolos, Bulacan, Diocese of Tagbilaran, Bohol, Diocese of Urdaneta, Pangasinan, Diocese of Virac; In foreign mission, they are in the Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA and in the Diocese of Ferrara, Italy.