Mosteiro Santa Maria Mãe de Deus
(Holy Mary Mother of God Monastery)
Our Daughterhouse in Mineiros, Goiás, Brasil

We congratulate and promise our prayers for Sister Joselaine Ferreira who made her final monastic profession on December 12, 2010.

Read the reflection given by Sister Anne Shepard, Prioress, at her profession.

Here am I Lord, I come to do your will."

A brief history of the Foundation in Brazil
História da Missão Brasileira

Ministries of our sisters in Mineiros
Ministérios das Irmãs Beneditinas de Mineiros

A poem, Transfigurai-nos, Senhor, by Maria das Graças Silva Moraes

Photos of the sisters (9 December 2009)

Photos updating the renovation of the monastery (15 April 2010)

Some photos from Mosteiro Santa Maria Mãe de Deus

More photos - August 2007

Spring 2007 photos (added 14 December 2007)

Momentos de Graças - poem by Ir. Maria das Graças Silva Moraes

Contact the community:
Email: ir.beneditinas@uol.com.br
Address:
Irmãs Beneditinas
C.P. 93
75.830.000 Mineiros
Goiás, BRAZIL
Telephone: 011-55-64-3661-1596

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Back row: Sisters Eliene Batista Gouvea, Grace Malaney, Elaine Gregory (both from Atchison, KS, USA), Maria das Graças Silva Moraes, Joselaine Carla
Ferreira, and Ironide Pereira Nunes
Front row: Gisélia Inácio Morais, Camila Regina Ferreira, and Morgana (a visitor)
(Photo taken January 2007)