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.

23. September 2019

Thought for the day

Jesus said to the crowd: No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel or sets it under a bed; rather, he places it on a lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible, and nothing secret that will not be known and come to light. Take care, then, how you hear. To anyone who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he seems to have will be taken away. Lk. 8:16-18