Frances Wicks, SFO

February 1st, 2010

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.

Juan del Pozo

January 24th, 2010

Please keep Juan in your prayers. He is the husband of our Minister General, Encarnacion del Poza

William Short, OFM

January 12th, 2010

Professor, author, and lecturer, William Short, OFM, has been hospitalized with a malignant tumor on his back. Please keep him in your prayers

Shirley Prisk, SFO

January 4th, 2010

Please pray for Shirley. She has been diagnosed with kidney cancer. Shirley is a member of the St. Maximilian Kolbe fraternity in Los Alamitos

Kathy Brown, SFO

December 27th, 2009

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

December 14th, 2009

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.

Margaret Beliveau, SFO

November 18th, 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

Tuan Cao, SFO and his wife Marie

October 27th, 2009

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 Morrisey, SFO

October 27th, 2009

Loris has had a recurrence of cancer and is undergoing chemo and needs our prayers

Maria Grove, sfo

October 16th, 2009

Maria Grove from St. Francis of Assisi fraternity (LA) is awaiting heart surgery