We welcome you to our international website!

The Hospital Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis want to share with you the charism with which we have been entrusted within the Roman Catholic Church and hope that you are able to identify this spirit in these "pages" that we have prepared.

As an international congregation, our Sisters serve in Germany, Poland, the United States of America, Japan and India.

We strive to live our form of religious life not as one of escape from reality, but as a living answer response to the will of God, which guides us to the poor of our times. The people in need have many faces!

Being near to the people and to our Church are at the core of our Franciscan heritage. We are called to be a sign of living hope "for the good of all suffering humankind and to praise God”. This last sentence appears on the Decree of Papal Approbation of our Congregation and the General Constitution received from Pope Leo XIII in 1901.

The core of our congregation rests in "being and bringing the healing presence of Christ" into our world, wherever we are and whatever we do.

27. January 2021

Thought for the day

The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said of Jesus, He is possessed by Beelzebul, and By the prince of demons he drives out demons. Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him. But no one can enter a strong man’s house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house. Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin. For they had said, He has an unclean spirit. Mk. 3:22-30