Ndanda Abbey is a Christian community of men, who live
according to the rule of St. Benedict (480-547), aiming to follow Christ
in loving each other, preaching the Gospel and serving the people.
St. Benedict puts down three basic activities for such a monastic community:
pray and work and study. But above all search for God.
As an Benedictine Abbey, Ndanda is an independent enterprise, but bound into
a larger group of monasteries, called the Congregation of St. Ottilien.
St. Ottilien itself is a big monastery in Southern Germany, founded in 1884.
The aim of this foundation was - as did the Benedictine monks in the middle ages -
to prepare young men and women for the monastic life and afterwards to send them as
missionaries all over the world, especially to Eastern Africa. Nowadays the
congregation of St. Ottilien has monasteries in Germany, Switzerland, Austria,
Venezuela, Columbia, United States, South Korea, India, South Africa, Kenya,
Uganda, Togo and Tanzania.
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