Community of St. Francis

Community of St. Francis
Sisters at centenary celebrations, 1905

The Community of St. Francis (CSF) is a Franciscan Anglican religious order of sisters founded in 1905, and is the oldest surviving Anglican Franciscan religious community. It was begun by Sr Rosina Eleanor Rice, who left another Anglican religious order, the Sisters of Bethany, to found CSF. After a short period in Hull, the sisters moved to Dalson in East London in 1908, where they supported themselves by working in the parish, caring for the sick and dying, and running a laundry. In the late 1950s their house came under a compulsory purchase order, and in 1962 CSF moved to a house in the hamlet of Compton Durville, near Yeovil in Somerset. There they ran a nursing home for elderly women for some years, before changing their ministry to one of hospitality. CSF grew considerably, and new houses were founded in other parts of the country. In 2010 the sisters closed their house at Compton Durville. The order is now organised into a European Province, consisting of five houses in England, and a semi-autonomous region in South Korea; and an American Province, consisting of a single house in the United States. The five English houses are in Southwark; Plaistow; Metheringham in Lincolnshire, Birmingham, and Leicester. The American house is located in San Francisco, and was established in 1974.

As First Order sisters, the CSF is an autonomous part of the Society of St. Francis (First Order brothers), which also includes the Order of St. Clare (Second Order sisters), and a Third Order of laypeople. Living under a Franciscan Rule, the sisters' primary vocation is prayer, study, and work in the context of community life. Some sisters serve as priests, and others live a solitary life.

References

  • Anglican Religious Life 2010-11. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2009
  • Franciscan; issued by the Society of St Francis, Hilfield. (Three issues a year)
  • Elizabeth CSF, Corn of Wheat, Becket Publications, 1981
  • Barrie Williams, The Franciscan Revival in the Anglican Communion, DLT, 1982

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