Founded in 1988 in Argentina by Father Carlos Miguel Buela, the Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará is a religious institute dedicated to prolonging the Incarnation of Jesus Christ through the evangelization of culture.
Four years earlier, Fr. Buela founded the Priests of the Institute of the Incarnate Word, with whom we share our charism and twin constitutions.
The name “Servants” (Servidoras) is a reference to (a) the faithful women who stood at the foot of the cross (Luke 8: 1-3) and (b) the term used by St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort in his True Devotion, 56.
The second part of the name, “of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará” (del Señor y la Virgen de Matará) refers to the Crucified Christ and His Blessed Mother as found on the Cross of Matará worn by the sisters, since Jesus on His Cross and the Virgin Mary must be the foundations of our spirituality.