A Tree Rooted in Faith traces the history of Queen of Angels Monastery from its beginnings in Maria-Rickenbach in Switzerland to the end of the twentieth century in Mt. Angel, Oregon. The foundress, Mother Bernardine Wachter, came to America as a missionary, first to Conception, Missouri, and then to the far west to establish a community of Benedictine Sisters. As she was joined by new recruits from Europe as well as American women, they built and staffed schools in Oregon and British Columbia. Based on community annals and individual memoirs, difficulties of their pioneer beginnings are related, along with adaptations of their prayer and community life to the new environment and to gradual developments in theology and spirituality. This story tells of the sisters' early work as teachers and of the gradual change in ministries as the needs of society and of the Catholic Church have evolved. The last quarter of the twentieth century saw drastic changes in American society and in the Catholic Church. Likewise, Queen of Angels Monastery has changed. Some basic ingredients of monastic life instilled by its founding mothers remain the same, while ministries and some aspects of lifestyle are different. Like their landmark giant Sequoia tree, Queen of Angels Monastery still stands firmly rooted in faith.
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Alberta Dieker. A Tree Rooted in Faith
A Tree Rooted in Faith
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 • The Call
2 • The Move to Missouri
3 • Conception and Maryville
4 • On to Gervais, Oregon
5 • Beginnings at Mt. Angel
6 • A New Century, a New Prioress
7 • Years of Turbulence
8 • The Post-War Years
9 • The Depression Years
10 • A New Decade, a New Thrust
11 • Winds of Change
12 • To the End of the Century
Notes
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A History of Queen of Angels Monastery
Alberta Dieker, OSB
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When the first group of five Benedictine sisters did arrive on September 5, 1874, not only was there no one to meet them at the railway station, there was no convent for them to live in. The only solution was to have the sisters share, for the time being, the Maryville rectory with Father Adelhelm. Of these quarters, Sister Beatrix wrote, “Our convent will be a tumbled down frame building which is so badly in need of repair both inside and outside that in bad weather not even the priest at the altar is protected from the rain.”17
The Swiss women, too, missed their Alpine surroundings:
