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Immaculata Monastery & Spirituality Center Norfolk, NE
Our Charism
Missionary Benedictine Sisters Constitutions, Chapter One Sent from the Father by the Risen Lord, the Holy Spirit bestows manifold gifts on the Church in order to accomplish Christ's work: the glorification of the Father and the salvation of the world.
The fundamental characteristic of our way of life is seeking God in
community, under a rule and a Our Benedictine prayer life is characterized by the Liturgy of the Hours in common and Lectio Divina. It reaches its highest point in the celebration of the Eucharist. We wish to make our communities places of God-seeking, divine praise and human encounter, and to witness to the presence of the Risen Lord in all that we are and in all that we do. We participate in the mission of the Church by our work of evangelization. In accordance with the tradition of our Congregation, we commit ourselves to proclaiming the Gospel among people who do not know Christ and where Christ is not sufficiently known. We serve where the Church is in need. We are challenged to awaken the sense for God in our contemporary society and to make others aware of the integral salvation of the world offered by God in Jesus Christ. In his love God led us from different nations to our Congregation. We respect and affirm the plurality of our international Congregation, which we consider a gift and an enrichment. Unity is achieved and maintained by fidelity to the essential elements of our Missionary Benedictine way of life. |
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May you attain to the fullness of God Himself. Ephesians 3:19
Missionary Benedictine Sisters
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Missionary Benedictine Sisters
One such gift is the vocation to Missionary Benedictine religious life,
which is a particular way of living the Gospel and is rooted in the Rule
of St. Benedict. Fr. Andreas Amrhein, our founder, wanted to renew the
idea of mission in the Benedictine tradition and to establish a community
that would proclaim the Kingdom of God among those people who have not yet
heard the Gospel. In 1885, he founded our Congregation which came to be
known as "The Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing." 
superior. Our common life finds expression in praying and working
together, in sharing our goods, both material and spiritual, and in mutual
service, support and encouragement. We, sisters and superiors, together
strive to discern the will of God ever anew in order to respond more fully
to our vocation.