Dubuque Franciscans Offer BFF Camp for Girls
The Dubuque Franciscan Sisters are offering their Best Franciscan Friends (BFF) Camp for girls in June. BFF Camp is a camp for girls who will finish 3rd, 4th, or 5th...
Sister Shirley Fineran Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
...Latina. She serves on the board of the Boys and Girls Home, and continues to work with the Mary Treglia Community House. Her newest mission is establishing a halfway house...
2023 Diamond Jubilarians – 60 Years
...also served in community-sponsored institutes at Holy Family Hall, the Alverno Apartments, and was the Director of St. Mark Community Center. Sister Inez served as Co-Director for the Humility of...
Ministry Grant Helps Schools in St. Lucia
...Sister of St. Francis. I am so proud, happy, and blessed of the fact that I’m in a community that allows us individually, with community support, to fulfill something personally.”...
Sisters Host First Retreat for Central American Associates
...Associate groups. “They have patterns of meeting once a month and being committed to that–ongoing community building is essential to them. They’ve created an intentional community to support one another,”...
Sister Anna Marie Manternach, OSF
...it was a privilege to have all 12 years at St. Mary’s in Cascade taught by our Community of Franciscan Sisters. Since I had the example of Sisters during my...
Sister Susann Rogers, OSF
...baptismal certificate did she find that the pastor of the parish baptized her Leona Magdalen after Susann’s Godmother. So, as Susann states, “Is it any wonder that once I got...
Catholic Sisters Release Earth as our Home Prayer Service
...for the unique needs of various groups: communities and families alike. It can be used as a physical pilgrimage–moving from room to room of a home–as well as a guided...
Common Venture Volunteers Reflect on the Experience
...have come to appreciate that serving with Franciscan humility truly is different from helping or fixing, as Rachel Naomi Remen states in her article included in our orientation materials: “Service…is...
Sister Lucy Kurt, OSF
...She entered the community on August 25, 1945 as a postulant and on August 12, 1946, was received into the community and given the name Sister Mary Lucy. She was...
