Mission
“As the Father sent me, so I am sending you.” John 20:21
“As Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood, we are called to live the Paschal Mystery of Christ and to bear witness to the Redeeming Love of Christ.”
At the express request of our father founder, Abbot Francis Pfanner, we, the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood sisters are meant for the missions. With our name, we have been given the mandate to live the redeeming love Christ in our everyday life and thus give the message of joy, hope, and reconciliation to the people.
Wherever we are, whatever our mandate, our task, it must be evident that we are moved by that love which urged Christ to empty himself and shed His Blood for us.
Our Legacy
Our legacy received from Abbot Francis Pfanner is imbued with the Benedictine spirit of Ora et Labora, pray and work which are our irrevocable principle.
St. Joseph had many worries,
And yet he was such an interior man;
While fulfilling his obligations,
He did not neglect prayer,
For he well understood the words:
“Pray and work”
St. Joseph did not accomplish heroic deeds, conspicuous in the eyes of people.
His daily work is an example for us that humble work accomplished with good intention, is of great value before God.
Abbot Francis
What We Do
In sickness and aging, we continue our mission by accepting our suffering and limitations with patience and love. Thus, in a special way we continue the missionary service of the Church and invoke the blessings of the Precious Blood on our Congregation and all missionary activity.
In all our ministries especially to the poor, the vulnerable and the marginalized, we continue the compassionate love of the healing Christ.
- Administration
- Education
- Healthcare
- Social service
- Pastoral Work/Spiritual Ministry
- Agricultural Work
- Domestic Work
- Liturgical Art and Service
- Arts and Crafts
- Prayer
The Three Principles
For our principles we begin to see the incarnation of a trinitarian Spirituality within the Paschal Mystery.
God is My Father
Ora Et Labora
Unity is Strength
The introduction of Pope Francis’ encyclical begins with the words that become the title: “Laudato si’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord.” These are the words of the beautiful poetic song written by St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th century that reminds us that being in relationship with God and all Creation is to live a life of praise to our God for our common home, that is “like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us”
God is My Father
Laudato SI’ 1.“Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and govern us, and produces various fruits with colored flowers and herbs.”
St Paul tells us in Ephesian 1: 5-6 that In love He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
Foundational word of faith of the revelation of Jesus.
Our adoption by God the “Father” is undeserved predestination and a gift of grace.
Mother Paula points to us that, Christ, by His death, has earned us grace of being God’s children. Christ brought back the whole world into God’s Love and therefore, all our live should be that of love, praise, and thanks of the redeemed.
My identity is God alone.
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Without repeating the entire theology of creation, we can ask what the great biblical narratives say about the relationship of human beings with the world. In the first creation account in the Book of Genesis, God’s plan includes creating humanity. After the creation of man and woman, “God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good” (Gen 1:31). The Bible teaches that every man and woman is created out of love and made in God’s image and likeness (cf. Gen 1:26). This shows us the immense dignity of each person, “who is not just something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons”.[37] Saint John Paul II stated that the special love of the Creator for each human being “confers upon him or her an infinite dignity”. [38] Those who are committed to defending human dignity can find in the Christian faith the deepest reasons for this commitment. How wonderful is the certainty that each human life is not adrift in the midst of hopeless chaos, in a world ruled by pure chance or endlessly recurring cycles! The Creator can say to each one of us: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” (Jer 1:5). We were conceived in the heart of God, and for this reason “each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary”
Scripture Eph 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ
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Jesus took up the biblical faith in God the Creator, emphasizing a fundamental truth: God is Father (cf. Mt 11:25). In talking with his disciples, Jesus would invite them to recognize the paternal relationship God has with all his creatures. With moving tenderness he would remind them that each one of them is important in God’s eyes: “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God” (Lk 12:6). “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them” (Mt 6:26).
I Am His Child
His own | Identity and Intimacy
Laudato Si’77: A Choice to Love
“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made” (Ps 33:6). This tells us that the world came about as the result of a decision, not from chaos or chance, and this exalts it all the more. The creating word expresses a free choice. The universe did not emerge as the result of arbitrary omnipotence, a show of force or a desire for self-assertion. Creation is of the order of love. God’s love is the fundamental moving force in all created things: “For you love all things that exist and detest none of the things that you have made; for you would not have made anything if you had hated it” (Wis 11:24). Every creature is thus the object of the Father’s tenderness, who gives it its place in the world. Even the fleeting life of the least of beings is the object of his love, and in its few seconds of existence, God enfolds it with his affection.
Ora Et Labora (Salvation)
The Son teaches us to glorify God
John 17: 3-4: This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do
Laudato Si’, mi Signore “praise be to you, my Lord”
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The New Testament does not only tell us of the earthly Jesus and his tangible and loving relationship with the world. It also shows him risen and glorious, present throughout creation by his universal Lordship: “For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross” (Col 1:19-20). This leads us to direct our gaze to the end of time, when the Son will deliver all things to the Father, so that “God may be everything to every one” (1 Cor 15:28). Thus, the creatures of this world no longer appear to us under merely natural guise because the risen One is mysteriously holding them to himself and directing them towards fullness as their end. The very flowers of the field and the birds which his human eyes contemplated and admired are now imbued with his radiant presence.
Unity is Strength (Sanctification)
The Holy Spirit the bond of unity among us.
Mother Paula’s Teaching. “Unity makes Strong” is the third principle given us by Mother Paula. She does not mean that we do things in the same way or at the same time. The unity she demands consists not so much in a uniform external appearance or practice, but rather in a comm-unity, bonded together by an inner link and for a common purpose, which in our case is mission.
Mother Paula’s greatest achievement during the twenty-four years she was superior general, was to unite the sisters in one spirit, the spirit of the Founder, and for one single purpose: self-sanctification through evangelization
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The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change. The Creator does not abandon us; he never forsakes his loving plan or repents of having created us. Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home. Here I want to recognize, encourage and thank all those striving in countless ways to guarantee the protection of the home which we share. Particular appreciation is owed to those who tirelessly seek to resolve the tragic effects of environmental degradation on the lives of the world’s poorest. Young people demand change. They wonder how anyone can claim to be building a better future without thinking of the environmental crisis and the sufferings of the excluded.