# Medical Mission Sisters **Summary.** The Medical Mission Sisters are a Catholic religious congregation focused on healthcare and healing ministry. In worship contexts the community is also known for hymn-writing, most visibly through Sister Miriam Therese Winter. ## Substance The congregation, formally the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries, was founded to bring medical care to underserved communities. Its members serve in health and healing work across a range of countries. Beyond that ministry, the community became known in the 1960s and later for religious song. Miriam Therese Winter, a member of the congregation, wrote and recorded hymns that circulated widely in Catholic and ecumenical worship. This connects the community to twentieth-century worship music alongside its medical mission. This page keeps to established facts: that the Medical Mission Sisters are a Catholic religious congregation, and that the community is associated with hymnody through Miriam Therese Winter. Details of specific missions and personnel fall outside its scope. ## Why it matters in this wiki The wiki examines worship theology and the sources of the songs congregations sing. The Medical Mission Sisters are one example of hymnody rooted in a service ministry, a useful contrast to commercially produced worship catalogs the wiki also tracks.