Benedictine Volunteers is a collaborative Catholic women’s volunteer program sponsored by three Benedictine women’s communities in North and South Dakota and Texas: The Benedictine Sisters of Bismarck, North Dakota – Annunciation Monastery; The Benedictine Sisters of Rapid City, South Dakota – St. Martin Monastery; The Benedictine Sisters of Boerne, Texas – St. Scholastic Monastery. Benedictine Volunteers fosters the personal and spiritual development of women ages 20-58 who are discerning their life’s call and/or a possible call to religious life by providing enriching and broadening service experiences in a Benedictine environment. Benedictine volunteers extend the heart and hands of the community by reaching out with the Sisters to serve the needs of the Church and world. Volunteers are given a wide variety of service opportunities, individually matched to each woman’s gifts and unique desires to serve. During their time of service, volunteers live, eat, pray, play, and work hand-in-hand with the Sisters in furthering the outreach mission of each religious community. Our vision is to inspire a spirit of service and discernment by which each volunteer fully realizes the unique call God has placed in her heart to joyfully animate the world with God’s love, compassion, and justice.

Affiliation: Roman Catholic, Order of Saint Benedict, Annunciation Monastery (Bismarck, ND), St. Martin Monastery (Rapid City, SD) and St. Scholastica Monastery (Boerne, TX).
Goal of Program: By providing enriching and broadening service opportunities in a Benedictine environment, our goal is to inspire a spirit of service and discernment by which each volunteer fully realizes the unique call God has placed in her heart to joyfully animate the world with God’s love, compassion, and justice. Our hope is that volunteers exit our program better empowered to live their purpose and be God’s hands and feet in the Church and world.
Type of Placement: Volunteers are given a wide variety of service opportunities across each of our three monastery sites. Each woman is individually matched to a community and to service opportunities that meet her unique gifts and desires to serve. These service opportunities include: archives, calligraphy and painting, elderly care and recreation, gardening, health care, Hispanic, hospital, hospitality, library, liturgy and music, home building, orphanage assistance, photography, multicultural, poverty alleviation, prison, switchboards, teaching, and university ministries.