Sister M. Felica Kalla

Born: June 12, 1938
Entrance: July 26, 1958
Professed: May 3, 1961
Died: November 10, 2024

On November 10, 2024, Sister M. Felica Kalla, Hospital Sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis, completed her earthly pilgrimage.

What is great and beautiful is born through suffering.

Bl. Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko

Sister M. Felica was born on June 12, 1938 in Wrzoski near Opole. She entered our Congregation on July 26, 1958 and made her first profession on May 3, 1961 in Oldrzychowice Klodzkie.

At the beginning of her religious life, Sister M. Felica served for several months among the sick at the Senior Residence Home in Opole, St. Alexius. From 1960 to 1975. She worked as a nurse and in the Blood Bank at hospitals in Cieplice and Radkow.

Since 1974, for health reasons, she took up residence at the Provincial House in Ołdrzychowice Kłodzkie, where she served with the Sisters in the infirmary and in various household chores. In her last years, she required total care herself and agreed to move to the convent in Dobrzeń Wielki, where she received the necessary assistance until her last days and was very grateful for it.

Sister Felica had a blood sister in our congregation – the deceased Sister M. Frankhilde.

Sister M. Felica will be remembered as a quiet, modest, cheerful and kind sister. She was very self-sacrificing, zealous, hard-working and perceptive of the needs of others. As far as her health permitted, she spared no effort in her ministry, even in her later years she continued to do much good to others. 

Illness was a cross for her, which she accepted and accepted as a task from the Lord. It was a hardship for her, but also something that helped her become a truly humble Sister. She was a good Sister, a person of prayer and trust. And she always tried to be present in the community and take an active part in community meetings and work.

Sister M. Felica consciously lived God’s presence every day, she waited longingly for Jesus in Holy Communion, and the day before she died she very consciously asked for a priest to come because she wanted to confess. She also received the sacrament of the Anointing of the sick at that time. For everything, she was always very grateful.

She loved her loved ones very much. She maintained cordial contact with her family and also surrounded them with her prayerful memory.

Grateful to her fellow Sisters and close family for all their kindness, especially for their care, help and prayers on her final journey, we believe she is already enjoying the joy of being with God in heaven.