Frances, the editor of the TAU and former treasurer of our Region, and wife of Bill Wicks (former national minister), had emergency surgery last night. Bill’s message said: “Her life here is in God’s hands. She had the anointing of the sick. She is in intensive care this morning. Two of her children are with me now. The others are flying in. Please offer your best prayers.”
Please remember both Frances and Bill in this very difficult time.
Please keep Juan in your prayers. He is the husband of our Minister General, Encarnacion del Poza
Professor, author, and lecturer, William Short, OFM, has been hospitalized with a malignant tumor on his back. Please keep him in your prayers
Please pray for Shirley. She has been diagnosed with kidney cancer. Shirley is a member of the St. Maximilian Kolbe fraternity in Los Alamitos
We lost a long-time Franciscan on Dec. 23rd, Kathy Brown, from St. Francis & Clare satellite. Please pray for the happy repose of her sole, and pray for her husband of 57 years, Lloyd, and their 10 living children and other family that she leaves.
Francis Chung, is the son of Rosa S.O. Youm, the minister of Bl. Luchesius & Bounadonna fraternity. He went in for a liver transplant on December 2, 2009.
Please pray for Margaret Beliveau, SFO, secretary of the Ventura fraternity. She just had a stroke. She’s a former minister of that fraternity
Our regional councilor, Tuan Cao, and his wife, Marie, are both having health problems, complicated by the fact that Tuan’s mother just had a serious stroke
Loris has had a recurrence of cancer and is undergoing chemo and needs our prayers
Maria Grove from St. Francis of Assisi fraternity (LA) is awaiting heart surgery