Although the Congregation had developed and flourished rapidly, it rooted itself only in Germany and Belgium until 1964. Responding to the call of Vatican II, our Congregation also began to dream of opening its doors to the missions. The providential meeting in 1963 between Mother M. Cleta Höschen, the then Superior General of the Congregation, and the then Archbishop of Changanacherry, Mar Mathew Kavukattu, led to the decision that the Congregation would extend its roots to the Indian soil.
As a first step, a group of 16 girls were interviewed and recruited for the Congregation by Archbishop Mar Mathew Kavukattu in 1964. They spent a period of three months at the Generalate of the Sacred Heart Sisters, at Parel, Changanacherry. During this time the late Fr. Engelbert Zimmermann SVD and the late Fr. Cyriac Kocherry, a priest of Changanacheery Archdiocese, gave them some orientation about the Congregation, religious life, prayer life, the country Germany, etc. After three months they were sent to Germany. Then in 1965, 1966, and 1968 three groups of girls went to Germany and pursued their formation along with the German formees in Heisterbach, the formation house of the Congregation. The sixteen girls of the first batch having completed their 3 years of formation, made their first profession in 1967.
It was the common decision of the late Archbishop Mar Mathew Kavukattu and the Superior General of the Congregation that the young professed sisters would return to India after their formation and professional studies to establish the Indian mission of the Congregation. In view of this, in 1965 Mother Cleta, accompanied by Rev. Fr. Ignatius, the Spiritual director of the Congregation, Sr. Eustachia, and Sr. M. Domitia, made a planning trip to India. Mother M. Cleta met the Archbishop and requested him to find some suitable place for the Congregation in Kerala.
The Archbishop bought a few acres of land for the Congregation in the highranges at Kumily, in the Nazranipuram Parish, in the Archdiocese of Changanacherry, Kerala. Although the initial intention was to build a formation house there, a thirty bed hospital was also built along with it. In 1967, Sr. Barbara, Sr. Sigmunda, and Sr. Domitilla came to India as missionaries accompanied by Sr. M. Wilma, and stayed with the Sacred Heart Sisters at Parel. After a few months they moved into their own convent, although the construction of the house was not yet completed. The formation house and the hospital building were blessed in 1968.