Membership

Employees Sandy Enneking and John Remacle

Postulant Carla and Novice Michele at a pear party

Volunteer hoeing in the garden

Our Vision

"See how God's Love shows us the way of life." {RB Prol.20}

the community of the Monastery of St. Gertrude

• is a people eager to journey together with the Gospel as our guide; {RB Prol.21}
• are professed members of the monastic community and those whose connections with us are mutually life-enhancing.

We The Benedictine Sisters of the Monastery of St. Gertrude, seek God together through monastic profession.
We commit to

• pray communally and personally;
• share all things in common; {Acts 4:32}
• live simply, reverently and attentively;
• persevere in the enduring relationships and the life-long process through which God sustains and transforms us.

Grounded in our contemplative call, we welcome the creative tension that connects our rural feminine roots with a global awareness. we respond to the needs of our sisters and brothers in healing hospitality, grateful simplicity and creative peacemaking. 

We commit to our corporate activities of:

• internal community ministries  

We chose relational styles of partnership and collaboration.
We minister at the monastery and in the Church of the Northwest

We are eager to welcome God's transforming power in ourselves and our world. 
Dancing at the edge of a dream, we

• commit to ongoing personal and communal growth;
• connect intimately to all of God's creation;
• trust and embrace God's promise for the future.

As Benedictine women, animated by our contemplative way of life,
we act as leaven to nourish our world.

Accepted by the Monastic Chapter June 2003