The Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing were born more than a hundred years ago, inspired by a dream of their founder Fr. Andreas Amrhein,  a monk of the revered Benedictine Abbey of Beuron in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.  He dreamed of living the monastic life, not in its single-minded pursuit of the Benedictine charism, but compenetrated with a love for advancing the Gospel to “those who do not yet know Christ.”

This was our foundational grace as Missionary Benedictine Sisters – to be monastics and missionaries –  a distinctive vocation in those times. Living in this creative tension, we value our Benedictine way of life while sharing its wealth in the work of evangelization at home and in missions outside the country.

Monastic life calls us daily “to seek God” in the community through the “Opus Dei” – the liturgy of the hours centered in the Eucharist, “Lectio Divina” and personal prayer – and through our monastic meals, recreations, and celebrations of feasts. Our community becomes the matrix where we experience both joys and hopes,  grief and anxieties, making us grow and mature in order to be fruitful for the work of the Kingdom.     

Thus, rooted in the stability of our Benedictine community we go forth as missionaries and tread the path of Jesus,  to preach Good News to the poor, liberty to captives, return of sight to the blind, and freedom for the oppressed, announcing the Year of Jubilee for God’s people. And in all this, we confess that we are but “unworthy servants”, yet rejoice in the double grace of being Benedictines and missionaries in the school of the Lord’s service.