Rebuilding the Church
The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist continue the call of St. Francis of Assisi to rebuild the Church. Like St. Clare, we are vowed religious women who embody the spirit of St. Francis and seek to enflame humanity with a sense of the sacred found deep within each person.
We are dedicated to the teachings of the Holy Father and maintain authentic perennial values while initiating new forms of apostolic service.
Our way of life is centered by the Holy Eucharist and strong community bonding. These lay the foundation for our many outreaches into the complexities of today’s world.
Our charism is to be a “Eucharistic field” capable of calling forth the joyful dignity of another’s being.
Our charism emboldens us to face prayerfully the following issues as our particular focus in our mission of rebuilding the Church:
Our mission is to restore a sense of the sacred, especially the sacredness of human life, in a world that knows the rupture between the sacred and the secular.
Why We are a Garden of Sisters
Founded in 1973
Generalate and Motherhouse
As the motherhouse and headquarters of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, the Meriden center is the spiritual touchstone for all the centers. The Generalate offices and the residence of our Mother General and Vicar General are a key part of the center.
A Growing Community
As a Community founded after Vatican II, we have experienced steady growth since our founding. We are proud to say that each new vocation has been a gift. Many wonderful and talented young women have found new life in entering and becoming vital members of the Community.
Following the Footsteps
Following the spirit of Saint Francis, the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist see manual work as an opportunity to be co-creators with God in making the world a more ordered place. It is an opportunity to engage with creation in challenging, productive and energetic ways so as to become more human, as Pope John Paul II teaches in his encyclical “On Human Work.”
Memorial
Remember the Rock from Which We Were Hewn
Mother Rosemae Pender, FSE
September 11, 1921 – June 26, 2016
We remember with profound love and lively joy, Mother Rosemae Pender, FSE, our Mother Foundress, who is our constant inspiration in our efforts “to rebuild the Church by being a Eucharistic Body filled with the dimensions of the Church” as she frequently urged us.
“I bless you all that I can and more than I can, and what I cannot do, I ask God to do in you.”
In The News
Sister Helen Jean Brinkman, eldest FSE, dies at 97
BRIDAL VEIL, OREGON (07-05-2025) - Sister Helen Jean Brinkman, FSE, a vowed Franciscan religious woman for 77 years, entered eternal life on July 4, 2025 after a brief illness. On the [...]
The Community mourns the death of Sister Colleen Ann Nagle, FSE
LOWELL, MI (06-16-2025) - God called Sister Colleen Ann Nagle, FSE, into eternal life on Saturday, June 14, 2025. This brought to completion a long journey of illness which she had [...]
Sister Damien Marie Savino, FSE completes book on integral ecology
LOWELL, MI (06-01-2025) - The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist are happy to announce the completion and upcoming publication of a new book by Sister Damien Marie Savino, FSE. Entitled Learning [...]
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Featured Sisters
Sister Collette Maritim, FSE
Sister Agnese Hutchinson, FSE
Sister Judith Zoebelein, FSE
Sister Mary Roberta Connors, FSE
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