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We are a religious
institute of pontifical right, whose members profess public vows
of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and follow an evangelical way
of life in common. It is through the daily living of our vision
that its richness and significance is seen.
The aim of the community is to cooperate with Christ in the spiritual
renewal of the world. As an apostolic congregation, the Felician
Sisters fulfill their mission in the Church through action and contemplation.
The
Felician community is officially known as the Congregation of
Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice, Third Order Regular of Saint
Francis of Assisi (CSSF).
We had our historic beginnings in the Russian sector of nineteenth-century
Poland. Our early days were tempered by the grief and anguish of
the poor and afflicted as the area struggled under the oppression
of foreign rulers. The earliest chronicles and memoirs recount how
the charism of the Congregation was expressed by the lives of Blessed
Mary Angela and the first Felicians; lives centered in prayer that
overflowed into ministry.
Since the Congregation had its origin in social services, diverse
forms of charitable acts have become inseparable from the Felician
vocation.
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