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MERIDEN, CT (02-04-2018) Sister Rosario Ongayo, FSE professed perpetual vows in the presence of almost 200 people in the Chapel of St. John at an 11:00 a.m. Mass on February 4, 2018. Mother Miriam Seiferman, FSE, Mother General, received Sister Rosario's vows and affirmed the unique gift Sister Rosario is to the Community and to those she serves. Sister Rose Mesa and Sister Mary Anne Linder were the official witnesses of the profession. In his homily, the Most Reverend Leonard P. Blair, Archbishop of Hartford, [...]

LOWELL, MI (01-19-2018) Spending her entire religious life making people feel at home, Sister Zita Senzig, FSE, 90, entered her eternal home today with her Community around her. Sister Zita had gradually weakened and was prepared for God to call her to new life with the Holy Trinity. She told her Sisters that she was looking forward to seeing her friends and family once again in the heavenly household. Sister Zita entered religious life as a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration in 1949 and professed [...]

MERIDEN, CT (01-06-2018) The Motherhouse Community shared their musical talents in a concert held in the Chapel of St. John in celebration of the Solemnity of Epiphany. The event was held as a thank you gift for the employees, volunteers and friends of the Sisters' professional services. The program featured Christmas hymns selected from the musical heritage of the Community. Sister Bernardone Rock, FSE was conductor; Pat Riello and Sister Christianna Hamman, FSE were accompanists.

The Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist wish you a Very Blessed Christmas and a New Year of Hope and Joy! As the Community continues to move forward in the spirit of our Foundresses, our Christmas card depicts the Nativity set brought from Rome to the Motherhouse by Mother Shaun, FSE, Co-Foundress, in 1975. The chimes in the background are dedicated to our Foundress, Mother Rosemae, FSE.

MERIDEN, CT - Sister Mary Elizabeth Endee, FSE, Vocation Director, attended a Vatican-sponsored conference in Rome focused on the theme of the upcoming 2018 Synod of Bishops, "Young people, faith and vocation discernment." The Vatican Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life organized the conference for Major Superiors and Vocation Animation Personnel on Vocational Ministry. The Conference was held in Rome from December 1 through December 3, 2107. Over 800 consecrated men and women from all over the world attended. The conference [...]

MERIDEN, CT – December 2, 2017 marked the 44th anniversary of foundation for the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist as they commemorated the first Foundation Day on that date in 1973, the First Sunday of Advent. Each year the Sisters celebrate the historic event on the First Sunday of Advent and observe December 2 as a day of prayer and fasting. By decree of the Vatican’s then-named Sacred Congregation for Religious, the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist were established as a separate religious order in the Church, with [...]