God, our Father, thanks to an extraordinary inspiration of the Holy Spirit, you called our Blessed Mother Frances Schervier to found the great family of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor. Like burning fire, her endeavor grew around the world, including the Senegalese land.
Dear Father, for 40 years, the tiny seed that Mother Frances planted has grown in the Diocese of Kaolack, and has become a tree whose shadow gives comfort to ill and poor people. Like a watered plant, the foliage that is blooming in Koungheul gave seeds also to Dakar and Samine.
Blessed are you, Lord, for your wondrous works! Blessed are you for each of our Sisters who has been continuing our mission in Kongheul for 40 years! Blessed are you, Lord, for the souls you satisfy through this apostolate. Blessed are you for the joy and light but, above all, for the suffering and the challenges that have marked this journey.

Lord, Jesus Christ, while we are celebrating our four decades in
Kongheul, we ask you to pour again on us all the spiritual graces needed to heal all the different wounds of the suffering and poor humanity in Your Name. We pray you continue to keep this endeavor in Your Hands!

Holy Spirit, bring to us a new outpouring of Your Love. Give us a double dose of the Spirit of St. Francis that our charity may be overflow daily. Give us all the godly virtues that animated St. Elisabeth of Hungary. May our lives be an endless union with the will of God, under God’s gaze, with God, in God, and only for God.

Let we recite one Our Father + 10 Holy Mary + 1 Glory
Sacred heart of Jesus, we trust in you.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, be our shelter.
St. Francis of Assisi, pray for us.
St. Elisabeth of Hungary, pray for us.
Blessed Mother Frances, pray for us.

Novena Prayer in honor of St. Elisabeth of Hungary for the 40th anniversary of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor’s presence in Koungheul
(Kaolack – Sénégal) November 9 – 17 2018