Prayer for First and Final Profession in Torres Novas Priory / Angola
The Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, Torres Novas Priory – Angola,cordially invite you to the Eucharistic celebration with
30/01/2024
TORRES NOVAS - Angola
In 1961, a community was founded in Portugal. Today, the priory house is located in Torres Novas. The communities of Angola and the the house in Madrid / Spain are part of the Torres Novas Priory.
ADDRESS : Beneditinas Missionarias, Quinta St.a Maria Bairro Boa Esperança 2, s/n Cx. P.875, Kikolo, Luanda, ANGOLA
TEL : 00244-926.100.605
E-MAIL : tchinacussoki@gmail.com
Latest Angola news
Sr. Elenice Aparecida Ferrrari re-elected as Prioress of Torres Novas Priory
On March 19, Sr. Elenice Aparecida Ferrari was elected for a second term as Prioress of Torres Novas
21/03/2023
Pray for First Profession and Jubilee in TN / Angola
On February 18, the following three novices will celebrate their first profession in Menongue / Angola: On the
04/02/2023
ABOUT
1931-33: The first sisters came to the then Portuguese colony of Angola and founded the stations Galangue, Kuvango and Cuchi in the Kuando-Kubango Province, working with the Redemptorist Fathers.
Only Cuchi remains today. 1967: Four new missionaries settled in Cazombo, in the Moxico Province located on the upper part of the Zambesi River, where they worked with the Benedictine missionaries from Singeverga, Portugal.
1972: The Serpa Pinta mission, today Menongue, was opened. But in 1975-77, all stations were given up in raging civil war.
1977: Three sisters returned to Menongue; Cuchi was destroyed and Cazombo couldn’t be reached. 1983: The sisters settled in the capitol, Luanda and, in 1998, in the totally destroyed Kuito Bié. Young Angolan women have since joined the community so today there is a promising novitiate in Luanda.
The Angolan missions, once a region of the Generalate District, current belong to the Iberian Priory whose seat is in Portugal.
In Angola four communities serve the people, especially the poor, in health care, education and socio-pastoral work.
Our mission history in Angola is marked with lots of hard work and sufferings. On March 6, 1931, the pioneering Sisters, Sr. Alberta Fischer, Sr. Adriana Kästle, Sr. Anthusa Kindl and Sr. Veremunda Fürst, arrived in Ganague, South of Angola.
On the following year, with our Sisters, Ildephonsa Behr, Nazarina Lechner, Frowina Hutter and Isberga Gruber, Cuchi mission was founded, followed by the Cuvango community: (Sr. Dietlinde Kleinlein, Sr. Gebtraud Grimminger, Sr. Hadmunda Hollik and Sr. Regulinde Reiter).
The Sisters were invited by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, to take care of the orphans and the intern girls and their formation, as well as catechism, pastoral and nursing care. These communities were part of the Windhoek Priory.
The three communities worked with the priests of the Holy Spirit and later on with the Redemptorist priests. At the beginning of the World War II, the German Sisters were expelled. But because the Superior of Cuchi hid all their passports, it was impossible for them to leave.
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Angola NEWS
Prayer for First and Final Profession in Torres Novas Priory / Angola
30/01/2024
The Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, Torres Novas Priory – Angola,cordially invite you to the Eucharistic celebration with the rite of First Profession of Novice Teresa C. P.
Sr. Elenice Aparecida Ferrrari re-elected as Prioress of Torres Novas Priory
21/03/2023
On March 19, Sr. Elenice Aparecida Ferrari was elected for a second term as Prioress of Torres Novas Priory, which includes the communities in Portugal,
Pray for First Profession and Jubilee in TN / Angola
04/02/2023
On February 18, the following three novices will celebrate their first profession in Menongue / Angola: On the same day Sr. Teresa F. Vissupe, Sr.
Our Schools – TORRES NOVAS PRIORY
20/12/2022
At our Sisters’ Assembly it was suggested that our two schools make an effort to make Benedictine Spirituality more present among students and families, teachers
Developments at Benedictine St. Scholastica School -TORRES NOVAS PRIORY / Angola
10/12/2022
After the construction of the sports court with funds from benefactors from the United States, the Priory sponsored the acquisition of equipment and the registration
Annual Assembly in Angola
29/09/2022
In September, we gathered at St. Scholastica´s Community in Luanda, for the Annual Assembly of the Communities in Angola. The Sisters were given the opportunity