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Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing

SPIRITUALITY

Seeking God 

· Sollicitudo sit si revera Deum quaerit. R.B. 58,7 
· Christo omnino nihil praeponant.R.B. 72,11
· Ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus.! R.B. 57,9 

 Sisters pronounce the monastic vows of "obedience, stability, and conversion of life (Conversatio Morum)." This means, making vows to live in accordance with the Benedictine Rule, to seek God in community to remain in the monastery, and to follow the teaching and example of our Lord Jesus Christ in all things. Thus, it is written in the rule; 'prefer nothing to the love of Christ' (RB 72,11) 'so that in all things God may be glorified' (1Pet 4:11), 

(RB 57,9). Sisters commit themselves to our Congregation, in order to be more deeply united with the life and mission of the Church.

 

Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing

Reichenbach 1899

The men community started at Reichenbach, but the site was too remote, and in 1887 the community moved to St. Ottilien Abbey in Oberbayern. Women religious have formed part of the Missionary Benedictine enterprise from the beginning, based at first at St. Ottilien but the sisters developed independently and today form the Congregation of Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing.

St. Ottilien 1891

St. Katharina 1901-1904 (in St. Ottilien)

Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing

The sisters of St. Ottilien  trasferred to the new motherhouse in Tutzing in 1904.

The Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing continued their prayer and work at their new motherhouse, Sacred Heart Convent, trusting in their divind Lord. 

During the following decades, sisters traveled from this motherhouse into the whole world.

Today, Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing have become a monastic congregation living according to the Rule and spirit of the holy Father Benedict and the missionary ideal of Fr. Alrhein. 

5 Continents, 15 Countries, 12 Priories, 128 Stations, more than 1,800 sisters is proclaiming the Gospel by "praying and working" with the general house in Rome.

Sisters in new chapel of Tutsing

"That God may be glorified in all thing."