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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;"> 1634 1635 <img 1636 fetchpriority="high" width="450" 1637 height="268" 1638 alt="" 1639 src="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/69a825f4-4a0a-4715-8f9a-1b3b9c87235f.jpg" 1640 srcset="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/69a825f4-4a0a-4715-8f9a-1b3b9c87235f.jpg 450w" 1641 itemprop="image" 1642 > 1643 1644 1645 </div> 1646<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:20px;"><strong>The Beginnings </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. They had been invited to Nebraska by Archbishop Jeremiah Harty of Omaha to minister to German immigrants. That fall the Sisters began teaching in St. John Berchmanâs School, Raeville, Nebraska.</span></p><p> </p> <div id="content_366076b1a0ae5e966474a08912df4532" class="image sb-float-left" style="max-width: 242px;"> 1647 1648 <img 1649 loading="lazy" width="242" 1650 height="300" 1651 alt="" 1652 src="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/499025bf-bbaa-4fef-8785-f2bae3e3de5f.jpg" 1653 srcset="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/499025bf-bbaa-4fef-8785-f2bae3e3de5f.jpg 242w" 1654 itemprop="image" 1655 > 1656 1657 1658 </div> 1659<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">The small community quickly began to sink its roots and grow. Within one year, a second mission, Sacred Heart Hospital in Lynch, Nebraska. In 1926, Raeville gained status as a priory, with <strong>Sr. Diemud Gerber, OSB,</strong> as the first prioress. </span></p> <div id="content_8b84877062455f648233c91beb1de7a1" class="image sb-float-left" style="max-width: 387px;"> 1660 1661 <img 1662 loading="lazy" width="387" 1663 height="290" 1664 alt="" 1665 src="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/ac5d7415-c84a-408c-8b2b-251665bf1b3a.jpg" 1666 srcset="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/ac5d7415-c84a-408c-8b2b-251665bf1b3a.jpg 387w" 1667 itemprop="image" 1668 > 1669 1670 1671 </div> 1672<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">The Sisters opened Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Norfolk, Nebraska, in 1935. 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;"> 1673 1674 <img 1675 loading="lazy" width="400" 1676 height="300" 1677 alt="" 1678 src="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/dfe66009-3206-4f2d-a43e-25c5f2a24eaa.jpg" 1679 srcset="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/dfe66009-3206-4f2d-a43e-25c5f2a24eaa.jpg 400w" 1680 itemprop="image" 1681 > 1682 1683 1684 </div> 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 â30s, the Sisters made great sacrifices to continue to expand their ministries. They offered religious education in many parishes and staffed Catholic schools in Raeville, Madison, Wayne, Winnebago, Columbus, and Assumption Academy in Norfolk. In Winnebago, the boarding school (now a day school) provided a second home for many Native American children. </span><span style="color:#000000;font-size:16px;"> </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;"> 1686 1687 <img 1688 loading="lazy" width="400" 1689 height="302" 1690 alt="" 1691 src="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/582311e3-a4c8-42ca-a5bf-3c720a02c74e.jpg" 1692 srcset="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/582311e3-a4c8-42ca-a5bf-3c720a02c74e.jpg 400w" 1693 itemprop="image" 1694 > 1695 1696 1697 </div> 1698<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align:right;"> </p><p style="text-align:right;"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">Drawn by faith and filled with zeal, the community took on bold building projects to provide more Catholic health care in the rural Midwest. Hospitals were purchased and built in Graceville, Minnesota, (1945) and Wayne, Nebraska, (1975). </span> </p><p> </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. The schools in Madison and Wayne continue to thrive under lay personnel. 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. 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 </strong></span></p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">Immaculata Convent, now known as Immaculata Monastery & 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;"> 1699 1700 <img 1701 loading="lazy" width="600" 1702 height="471" 1703 alt="" 1704 src="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/638c3446-4310-4fa4-a76f-32d59d2e82f8.jpg" 1705 srcset="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/638c3446-4310-4fa4-a76f-32d59d2e82f8.jpg 600w" 1706 itemprop="image" 1707 > 1708 1709 1710 </div> 1711<p><span style="color:#000000;font-size:14px;">In addition to the spirituality center the sisters are also engaged in domestic service, ecumenism, environmental concerns, justice and peace issues, parish ministry, and religious education. Through the oblate community the sisters support the laity who desire to live out our Missionary Benedictine values in our secularized world. 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. The three fold focus of this ministry is to develop relationships with people located throughout the world by use of social media, the Priory website and by direct contact. Secondly, through social media and by personal presence of the Sisters at national events and youth gatherings we promote vocations to the Missionary Benedictine way of life. Thirdly, we hope to raise funds for our Sisters in mission countries by active fund raising and by grant applications. These are all direct ways of implementing the directive of new evangelization. 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> </p><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#2980b9;font-size:20px;"><strong>< </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> </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>></strong></span></p> 1712 </div> 1713 <!-- END .col col1 --> 1714 1715 </div> 1716 <!-- END .primary-container --> 1717 1718 1719 1720 </main><!-- end main --> 1721 1722 1723 <!-- BEGIN .fast-facts-container --> 1724<div class="fast-facts-container has-bg-no-list container-dark"> 1725 <div class="content-block fast-facts-block"> 1726 <h4>Facts about the Missionary Benedictine Sisters</h4> 1727 1728 <div class="collection collection--list" id="content_854ebe68c9730d61bb49ed68104c17ce"> 1729 1730 1731 1732 <ul class="collection__items"> 1733 1734 1735 <li class="collection-item" id="content_854ebe68c9730d61bb49ed68104c17ce_item_11666611"> 1736 <div class="collection-item__content"> 1737 1738 1739 <div class="collection-item-label">Missionary Benedictine Sisters in the World</div> 1740 1741 <div class="collection-item-description"><p>1300</p></div> 1742 1743 </div> 1744 </li> 1745 <li class="collection-item" id="content_854ebe68c9730d61bb49ed68104c17ce_item_11666612"> 1746 <div class="collection-item__content"> 1747 1748 1749 <div class="collection-item-label">Number of Countries where our Sisters live</div> 1750 1751 <div class="collection-item-description"><p>16</p></div> 1752 1753 </div> 1754 </li> 1755 <li class="collection-item" id="content_854ebe68c9730d61bb49ed68104c17ce_item_11666613"> 1756 <div class="collection-item__content"> 1757 1758 1759 <div class="collection-item-label">Number of different Nationalities of our Sisters in Norfolk</div> 1760 1761 <div class="collection-item-description"><p>8</p></div> 1762 1763 </div> 1764 </li> 1765 <li class="collection-item" id="content_854ebe68c9730d61bb49ed68104c17ce_item_11666614"> 1766 <div class="collection-item__content"> 1767 1768 1769 <div class="collection-item-label">Years the Missionary Benedictine Sisters have been established</div> 1770 1771 <div class="collection-item-description"><p>141</p></div> 1772 1773 </div> 1774 </li> 1775 1776 </ul> 1777 1778 </div> 1779 <div id="content_7aa35542bf10f04d43c2faa2e912ea6d" class="image" style="max-width: 4000px;"> 1780 1781 <img 1782 loading="lazy" width="4000" 1783 height="2667" 1784 alt="" 1785 src="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/9ba88733-830b-462d-8ef3-50bc043208c7.jpg" 1786 srcset="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/dfe1d95b-82fd-49b5-ba33-cf8f3cfcfc64.jpg 600w, https://cdn.firespring.com/images/d1750f38-793f-4327-940e-8b9a380c5804.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.firespring.com/images/3c7fc5cb-224c-4a4a-9156-dcffa6c0406e.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.firespring.com/images/9ba88733-830b-462d-8ef3-50bc043208c7.jpg 4000w" 1787 itemprop="image" 1788 > 1789 1790 1791 </div> 1792</div> 1793 <div class="end-fast-facts"></div> 1794 <!-- END .end-fast-facts --> 1795 </div> 1796 <!-- END .fast-facts-container --> 1797 1798 1799 <!-- BEGIN .logos-container --> 1800 <div class="logos-container"> 1801 1802 1803 <div class="content-block logos-block"> 1804 <div class="collection collection--gallery collection--gallery--next-prev" id="content_42918df9ef7cadb5f3035aaed5e643a1"> 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 <ul class="collection__items grid grid--block grid--block-horz-center grid--block-vert-middle sb-border-none sb-padding-none"> 1810 1811 1812 <li class="collection-item collection-item--has-image" id="content_42918df9ef7cadb5f3035aaed5e643a1_item_11810444"> 1813 <div class="collection-item__content clearfix"> 1814 1815 <div id="content_c8f5dddf98c96ce5c4abef7ba02440eb_image_item_11810444" class="collection-item-image image" style="max-width: 1484px;"> 1816 1817 <img 1818 loading="lazy" width="1484" 1819 height="534" 1820 alt="" 1821 src="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/0ea8848a-9327-443d-a65c-c6955ed25f2d.jpg" 1822 srcset="https://cdn.firespring.com/images/1b50b0b0-24f1-4aef-adbc-0e65554cd7a3.jpg 600w, https://cdn.firespring.com/images/9fcd8c89-2a53-4a64-a223-68619bbc74f7.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.firespring.com/images/0ea8848a-9327-443d-a65c-c6955ed25f2d.jpg 1484
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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
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