Giving Thanks
This year, as Franciscan Sisters of the Poor, we celebrate 160 years of presence in the United States. With joy and gratitude we share our prayer. "Loving God, we are very blessed today by those who journey and share with us...
A Blessing of Hospitality in Dumaguete
As I boarded the small plane from Cebu City, Philippines to Dumaguete City to meet the Sisters, I was excited and a bit anxious to experience the Sister's ministries in a different culture and environment. I retrieved my bag...
New Leadership
Filled with gratitude to God, we announce with joy that the 15th General Chapter of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor, which was held in Aachen, Germany, after discernment and prayer, has elected a new Leadership...
New Congregational Minister
It is with great joy and profound thanks to God that we announce that Sister Licia Mazzia, SFP, has been selected as Congregational Minister for a five-year term. Let us give thanks to God for the life given during these past five years...
Ubuntu: the fraternity wished for by St. Francis
Many of us have heard for the first time the concept of Ubuntu during the Congregational Conference, which took place in Rome in 2016. In this concept, we identify a style of life in which evangelical values can be found...
United in Mother Frances
On the evening of September 11th, we meet together --all of the members of the Chapter together with a substantial group of Poor Sisters of St. Francis hailing from different communities -- inside the Chapel of the Motherhouse...
The joy of meeting together
Ciao, comment vas-tu? Tudo bem and you? This sentence definitely sounds strange and it is perhaps even grammatically incorrect. Why choose it, then, as the opening of this written piece? In order to express the magic...
Prayer for 2018 General Chapter
Come, Risen Christ. Come in our midst and in our wounded world. Come and give us the joy of living our daily life in the light of the Gospel and the Charism of Mother Frances. Make us willing and open to your creative originality in order to listen...
