A Blessed and Joyful Christmas Season!
The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist wish you a Very Blessed Christmas and a New Year of Hope and Joy!
Sisters’ Advent event helps laity prepare for Christmas
The Sisters at the Family Life Center in Pocatello, Idaho offered an Advent Retreat entitled Mary Waits on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8. In her presentation, Sister Mary Colman Pyle drew parallel feelings of activities in the retreatants' lives with those feelings Mary possibly would have felt in the involvements she and those around her had experienced. Accompanying the presentation were pictures of famous paintings of the events of Mary’s life. In the afternoon Sister Mary Matthew Morrisroe presented on the Advent mystery of waiting. The [...]
Sister Amaris Salata professes first vows
Sister Amaris professes the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience in the presence of witnesses Sister Sophia Peters and Sister Maria Sena (far right). Brother Leo Maneri, FBE assisted with the microphone. The newly professed Sister Amaris receives the blessing of St. Francis in song from the Community. MERIDEN, CT (11-25-2018) On the Solemnity of Christ the King, Sister Amaris Salata professed her first vows into the hands of Mother Miriam Seiferman, FSE, Mother General. Sister Amaris has been a novice for the [...]
Franciscan Montessori Earth School receives WCEA Accreditation
Sister Therese Gutting, FSE, Head of School, works with Cyrus and Kellan in the Atrium of the Franciscan Montessori Earth School, the space where the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program is carried out. PORTLAND, OR (11-16-2018) Congratulations to our Franciscan Montessori Earth School in Portland, Oregon! For the past three years the Franciscan Montessori Earth School has been working hard to earn accreditation by the Western Catholic Educational Association. On November 16 they were granted a six-year accreditation. The Western Catholic Educational Association is [...]
Sister John Mary Sullivan, FSE and Apprentices speak at Boise symposium
BOISE, IDAHO - On the occasion of the canonization of Saint Pope Paul VI and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Humanae Vitae, the Diocese of Boise held a "Growing a Culture of Life Symposium" on October 19-20, 2018. The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, Pocatello, were involved in the planning of the symposium and led Morning Prayer on the second day of the conference. Sister John Mary Sullivan, FSE, of Vancouver, BC, presented the first talk on Saturday morning to the conference [...]
Sisters attend Bishop Juan Miguel Betancourt’s ordination
Sister Barbara Johnson, FSE and Sister Mary Richards, FSE greet Bishop Betancourt. MERIDEN, CT (10-18-2018) - The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist welcomed the new Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford at a reception following the Ordination Mass in the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford on the feast of St. Luke the Evangelist. Pope Francis appointed Father Juan Miguel Betancourt, SEMV of the Archdiocese of St. Paul as auxiliary bishop on September 18, 2018. The Most Reverend Leonard P. Blair, Archbishop of Hartford, ordained the new bishop during [...]