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1633                <h4>The History of the Missionary Benedictines Sisters in the U.S.A.</h4><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;"><em>"Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. </em></span></strong></span><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="font-size:18px;">- Joshua 1:9</span></strong></span></p>    <div id="content_b052d63e7045ae02c4214ee5c5a4b77f"  class="image sb-float-right" style="max-width: 450px;">
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1646<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:20px;"><strong>The Beginnings&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">On July 31, 1923, a sapling was planted by four Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, Germany.&nbsp; They had been invited to&nbsp;Nebraska by Archbishop Jeremiah Harty of Omaha to minister to German immigrants.&nbsp; That fall the Sisters began teaching in St. John&nbsp;Berchman’s School, Raeville, Nebraska.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p>    <div id="content_366076b1a0ae5e966474a08912df4532"  class="image sb-float-left" style="max-width: 242px;">
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1659<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">The small community quickly began to sink its roots and grow.&nbsp; Within one year, a second mission, Sacred Heart Hospital in Lynch, Nebraska.&nbsp; In 1926, Raeville gained status as a priory, with <strong>Sr. Diemud Gerber, OSB,</strong> as the first prioress.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>    <div id="content_8b84877062455f648233c91beb1de7a1"  class="image sb-float-left" style="max-width: 387px;">
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1672<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">The Sisters opened Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Norfolk, Nebraska, in 1935.&nbsp; Five years later, the priory center was transferred to Norfolk and named Immaculata Convent.</span></p>    <div id="content_6f998e1644744f013b314b36505fc801"  class="image sb-float-right" style="max-width: 400px;">
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1685<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:20px;"><strong>Expansion</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">Despite depression and drought, which plagued rural Nebraska in the ‘30s, the Sisters made great sacrifices to continue to expand their ministries.&nbsp; They offered religious education in many parishes and staffed Catholic schools in Raeville, Madison, Wayne, Winnebago, Columbus, and Assumption Academy in Norfolk.&nbsp; In Winnebago, the boarding school (now a day school) provided a second home for many Native American children.&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:16px;">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">Until today, the Sisters continue to offer support and assistance in promoting the identity and culture of the Native America people.</span></p>    <div id="content_3e1c87db69ed094f573be906f9a04e04"  class="image sb-float-left" style="max-width: 400px;">
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1698<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:right;">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">Drawn by faith and filled with zeal, the community took on&nbsp;bold building projects to provide more Catholic health care in the rural Midwest.&nbsp; Hospitals were purchased and built in Graceville, Minnesota, (1945) and Wayne, Nebraska, (1975).&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:20px;"><strong>Developments</strong></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">Through the needs of the Church and the changing talents of the community, the Spirit c
1698ontinues to call for adaptations in our ministries.&nbsp; The schools in Madison and Wayne continue to thrive under lay personnel.&nbsp; After twenty years as a school, Assumption Academy was converted into Skyview Medical Center. In 1973, the Sisters responded to the cry of the poor of Appalachia in Eastern Kentucky, tending to the physical and spiritual needs of the mountain people.&nbsp; This ministry was turned over to Catholic ministers in 1993. After discernment the Sisters made the decision to divest from ownership of health care institutions. This was completed in 2010.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:20px;"><strong>A Look at the Present&nbsp;</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">Immaculata Convent, now known as Immaculata Monastery &amp; Spirituality Center, has become a center for Northeast Nebraska, providing retreats and spiritual direction, and hosting Christians Encounter Christ, Engaged and Marriage Encounters, enrichment courses, and various other meetings.</span></p>    <div id="content_eec155bbd8e181bfbc42243a92c0d318"  class="image sb-float-right" style="max-width: 600px;">
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1711<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">In addition to the spirituality center&nbsp;the sisters are also engaged in domestic service, ecumenism, environmental concerns, justice and peace issues, parish ministry, and religious education.&nbsp; Through the oblate community the sisters support the laity who desire to live out our Missionary Benedictine values in our secularized world.&nbsp; The oblates support the sisters through their prayer and association with the community.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">In 2011 a new ministry was begun when the development office was created.&nbsp; The three fold focus of this ministry is to develop relationships with people located throughout the world by use of&nbsp;social media, the Priory website and by direct contact.&nbsp; Secondly, through social media and by personal presence of the Sisters at&nbsp;national events and youth gatherings we promote vocations to the Missionary Benedictine way of life.&nbsp; Thirdly, we hope to raise funds for our Sisters in mission countries by active fund raising and by grant applications.&nbsp; These are all direct ways of implementing the directive of new evangelization.&nbsp; By prayer requests and news of the missions we help people see the needs of the Church in the world and invite them to participate in the work of our Sisters in whatever way they choose.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#2980b9;font-size:20px;"><strong>&lt; </strong></span><a href="https://www.mbsmissionaries.org/mbs-usa/"><span style="color:#2980b9;font-size:20px;"><strong>MBS International Congregation</strong></span></a><span style="color:#2980b9;font-size:20px;"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span><a href="https://www.mbsmissionaries.org/mbs-usa/prayerlife.html"><span style="color:#2980b9;font-size:20px;"><strong>Our Prayer Life</strong></span></a><span style="color:#2980b9;font-size:20px;"><strong>&gt;</strong></span></p>
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1985          <div class="content-block footer-about-block">
1986  <p>Vision Statement</p>
1987
1988<p>As Missionary Benedictine Sisters with our particular charism of prayer, community, cultural and ethnic diversity, and our commitment to respect persons and creation, we believe our call at this time is to:</p>
1989
1990<p>     ~Deepen and share our Benedictine spirituality  </p>
1991
1992<p>     ~Respond to the critical needs of society with emphasis on the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed.</p>
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2030  <div class="copy-container">
2031    <span>&copy; 2026</span> Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing- Immaculata Monastery and Spirituality Center
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2034
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2039          <a href="#privacy-policy" class="lightbox lightbox--inline js-lightbox--inline">Privacy Policy</a>
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2044              <h2>Privacy Policy</h2>
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2046
2047            <div class="policy-content">
2048              <ol>
2049
2050<li><strong>What Information Do We Collect?</strong>
2051When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.</li>
2052
2053<li><strong>Personal Information You Choose to Provide</strong>
2054We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information for such purposes as correspondence, placing an order, requesting an estimate, or participating in online surveys.
2055If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.</li>
2056
2057<li><strong>Website Use Information</strong>
2058Similar to other websites, our site may utilize a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the sites visited just before and just after ours. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.</li>
2059
2060<li><strong>How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?</strong>
2061Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing service and support and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional standards de
2061signed to safeguard the security and privacy of all personal information provided by our users. You may at any time to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.</li>
2062
2063<li><strong>What Are Cookies?</strong>
2064Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that website by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transactions on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.</li>
2065
2066<li><strong>How Do We Use Information Collected From Cookies?</strong>
2067We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information about our website users' browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our users. This information assists us to design and arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to better meet the needs of our users and prospective users.
2068Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.</li>
2069
2070<li><strong>Notice of New Services and Changes</strong>
2071Occasionally, we may use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As a user of our website, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an email request.</li>
2072
2073<li><strong>How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?</strong>
2074When you send confidential personal information to us on our website, a secure server software which we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website.
2075Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security, credit card, or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.</li>
2076
2077<li><strong>How Do We Protect Your Information?</strong>
2078Information Security -- We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
2079Evaluation of Information Protection Practices -- Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with organization policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
2080Employee Access, Training and Expectations -- Our organization values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.</li>
2081
2082<li><strong>How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?</strong>
2083You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us using the contact form provided to you within the site structure of our website.</li>
2084
2085<li><strong>Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?</strong>
2086We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, website traffic patterns and related website information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.</li>
2087
2088<li><strong>What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?</strong>
2089We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal r
2089ights.</li>
2090
2091<li><strong>Permission to Use of Materials</strong>
2092The right to download and store or output the materials in our website is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.</li>
2093
2094</ol>
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2116              <h2>Donation Refund Policy</h2>
2117
2118We are grateful for your donation and support of our organization. If you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about contributing to our organization please contact us.  Refunds are returned using the original method of payment. If you made your donation by credit card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.
2119
2120<h2>Automated Recurring Donation Cancellation</h2>
2121
2122Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us.
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