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JERUSALEM (02-05-2019) - Cardinal Edwin O'Brien, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher, bestowed the Order's Cross of Merit of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem on Sister Monica Navalta, FSE at a ceremony held at the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem. In receiving the Cross of Merit, Sister Monica is recognized as a "person of unquestionable moral conduct who has served the Church and has shown great charity and love for the Holy Land" according to the Order's website. Sister [...]

PANAMA - Sister Frances Zajac, FSE and Sister Sophia Peters, FSE send greetings from World Youth Day in Panama! The Sisters, along with priest-chaplain, Father Glen Dmytryszyn, Parochial Vicar of St. John Bosco Parish, Branford, Connecticut, and nine young adults from Connecticut and Michigan left the Franciscan Motherhouse in Meriden on Wednesday, Jan. 23 for their flights to Panama City. The theme of the 34th World Youth Day 2019 is, “I am the servant of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word” (Lk [...]

The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist wish you a Very Blessed Christmas and a New Year of Hope and Joy!

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 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 [...]

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 [...]