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Immaculata
Monastery
Our Priory Center

The Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the
United States have our priory center at Immaculata Monastery in Norfolk,
Nebraska. We are an independent priory, closely connected with our worldwide
congregation, with the Generalate in Rome. Our Prioress, Sr. Kevin Hermsen,
and her Council make up the leadership team in the United States.
The Norfolk Priory has forty members.
Twenty-nine Sisters reside in Norfolk
at the priory house. The other Sisters live in our three small communities
in Nebraska and Minnesota.
The missionary identity of our world-wide congregation is easily seen in the
cultural diversity among us. Sisters from seven different countries call the
Norfolk Priory "home."

This diversity lived out in unity awakens us to the beauty of God's
creativity and to an awareness of the needs of God's people throughout the
world. Here in the States our missionary task is focused on helping to build
up and strengthen Christian communities. We participate in the task of
re-evangelization through our active ministries in health care, education,
pastoral and social services, outreach to the poor and in spiritual
support.
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