BERNARDINE FRANCISCAN SISTERS
Weekly Relay
April 2025
Prayers are requested for the needs of our congregation.
- for our Sisters who will celebrate a birthday or feast day during the month of April. Many graces and blessings for you are precious to God and to us, your Sisters!
- for all our special intentions and for those who ask us to remember them and their special intentions in our prayers.
Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the Power of God, thrust into Hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
Community Updates – Bernardine Franciscan Sisters (4)
- Sister Jean Jacobchik was transferred to Reading Hospital Rehabilitation at Wyomissing (PA) yesterday, Monday, March 31, 2025.
- Sister Francis Canice Reinhardt was admitted to Reading Hospital Tower Health, West Reading, PA on Friday, March 28, 2025.
- Sister Vincent de Paul Malecki was admitted for a 2-4 week stay at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Reading, PA on Friday, March 28, 2025.
- Sister Marie Janeen Obara remains a patient in Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center, Reading, PA.
Please keep these Sisters in your prayers.
March-April Birthdays Celebrated at St. Joseph Villa
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Sister Josandra Ciucci introduces the “Constantia Male Quartet” from Philadelphia to the Sisters.
Birthday Celebrants
From left front clockwise to right front: Sisters Melita Skiendziel, Helen Krzywinska,
Claude Marie Jablonski, and de Marie Sawicki;
(back center) Sister Margaret Taufer, CPS
(right rear): Unidentified Precious Blood Sister guest, not celebrating)
Sisters Josandra Ciucci; Annuncia Koller, MSC and Dolorice Domin
Prayers are requested for the following sick and needy Sisters, Family, Associates, Friends, and Benefactors and for those who companion them during this time:
- for a safe and successful surgery for Matt Dersa today, Tuesday April 1, 2025.
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