About the book: "Every man’s life is acted out between two great events: his birth and his death. Man has two outlooks: an outlook toward life, and an outlook toward death. The pagan world was, for the most part, oppressed with the outlook toward death. After centuries of gloom, Christ was born in a poor stable in Bethlehem. This was a birth, which led to a death, which death was to remove the sting and gloom of death forever after from the lives of men. This was the good news, from which the practice of Christianity, a seeming paradox of joy and self-denial, sprang." - Sister Wilhelmina
Sister Mary Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, founded the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles in 1995 at the age of seventy.
Four years after her death, in May 2023, the sisters were preparing for the reinternment of the remains of their beloved foundress after the completion of a St. Joseph Shrine.
Upon seeing Sister Mary's remains, they discovered something incredible, something miraculous - her body appeared to be incorrupt!
In The Life of Sister Mary Wilhelmina (2023), you will become acquainted with this most humble sister, who, after fifty years of religious life, was called to establish the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, to remain faithful to the traditional religious life and the Latin Mass.
This biography includes stories of her life, her experience as a Black Catholic during racial tensions, the founding of a community, and her original poetry.
Her entire life is a testament to fidelity, devotion, and surrender to God's will.
About the author: Our community first began under the aegis of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter in 1995, in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. We were originally called the Oblates of Mary, Queen of Apostles to indicate the offering of ourselves to the Benedictine family, and we had consecrated ourselves to Our Lady for her service. We began following a monastic horarium as laid out by St Benedict in his Rule, chanting the traditional Divine Office in Latin as prescribed.
In March 2006, we accepted the invitation of Bishop Robert W Finn to transfer to his diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph in Missouri. We were established as a Public Association of the Faithful with the new name Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. By the grace of God, and through the fatherly solicitude of Bishop Finn, we were raised to the status of Religious Institute of Diocesan Right on 25 November 2014. 9 and 10 September 2018 saw the elevation of our priory to an abbey, the consecration of our abbey church, and the consecration of Mother Abbess Cecilia as our first abbess. On 28 April 2019, seven intrepid sisters left the abbey to establish our first daughter house, the Monastery of St Joseph in Ava, Missouri, where they have extended our order and mission.
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