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FSEs receive Archdiocesan Outstanding Service Award

MERIDEN, CT (03-10-2024) - "The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist are a blessing for the Archdiocese of Hartford engaged in so many diverse ministries. It seems fitting that as you have recently celebrated 50 years as a Pontifical Religious Order of Women that the Archdiocese of Hartford would also recognize this great milestone," wrote The Most Reverend Leonard P. Blair, Archbishop of Hartford, in a letter to Mother Miriam Seiferman, FSE, Mother General, and to Mother Shaun Vergauwen, FSE, [...]

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Danah Agustin is welcomed into novitiate

MERIDEN, CT (02-12-2024) - Danah Agustin, daughter of Lorenza and Danilo Agustin of Vancouver, BC, entered the novitiate of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist on Sunday, February 11, the traditional day commemorating Our Lady of Lourdes. On this day in 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared for the first of 18 times to a 14-year old French girl, Bernadette Soubirous. In the private ceremony, Mother Miriam Seiferman, FSE, Mother General, received Danah's request for novitiate, responding with a strong [...]

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Sister Darlene Wessling, FSE enters eternal life

LOWELL, MI  - Sister Darlene Wessling, FSE entered eternal life Sunday morning, January 28 as her Sisters of the Lowell Community and Mother Miriam Seiferman, Mother General, surrounded her with prayer and loving vigilance. Sister Darlene had lived valiantly with a serious heart condition for several years and was admitted to hospice care last week. With an upbeat and positive attitude, trusting in God's providence, she was an inspiration to her Sisters as she prepared to meet Christ, her Spouse, after a [...]

By |January 29th, 2024|Categories: News|Comments Off on Sister Darlene Wessling, FSE enters eternal life

FSEs in the News

During 2023, Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist were featured in a variety of news articles by both secular and Catholic press outlets. Here are a few of the noteworthy items: Sister Catherine Mary Clarke, Dying a Natural Death, Catholic Transcript, July-August 2023, pp 12-15 "Sister Catherine Mary Clarke, a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist, has comforted the dying for more than 17 years as a clinical social worker with Franciscan Home Care and Hospice Care in Meriden." Sister Catherine [...]

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Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist celebrate 50 years

MERIDEN, CT (12-01-2023) - Fifty years ago on December 2, 1973, the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist were established as a pontifical religious order of women by a decree of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Religious. The Sisters were formerly members of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The erection of the new Congregation on December 2, followed upon a meeting with the Sacred Congregation in Rome of the President and Vice President of the Franciscan Sisters of [...]

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Marie Tessier of Virginia Enters Novitiate

MERIDEN, CT (10-07-2023) - On the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary, the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist gathered in the Chapel of St. John for a private ceremony of reception into novitiate of Marie Tessier. During the past two years as a pre-postulant and a postulant, Marie has lived with the Community in the initial formation house in Meriden. Marie read her letter of request to enter novitiate to which Mother Miriam Seiferman, Mother General, responded with a joyful "Yes" [...]

By |October 10th, 2023|Categories: News|Comments Off on Marie Tessier of Virginia Enters Novitiate
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