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.

18. January 2020

Thought for the day

Jesus went again out to the sea. All the crowd came to him and he taught them. As he passed by, he saw Levi, son of Alphaeus, sitting at the customs post. Jesus said to him, Follow me. And he got up and followed Jesus. While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him. Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors and said to his disciples, Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners? Jesus heard this and said to them, those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners. Mk. 2:13-17