What we do

In 1863, Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel did not found a humanitarian organisation, such as the Red Cross, nor did she found a workers’ party, such as the SPD. She founded a religious community with two pillars:

1. service to people in need (through works of mercy)
2. the worship of God.

Worship takes place in two ways:

• on the one hand, through perpetual / eternal adoration, which means that in everything they do, the sisters always regard God as greater and trust in him and his actions
• and through Eucharistic adoration in the chapel of adoration at the motherhouse, or in the churches and chapels of the other convents.

Mother Teresa repeatedly told her sisters: “It is not service to children, the sick and the needy that makes us religious women, but adoration and constant prayer.”