The Little Sisters live the Gospel within a sisterly apostolic community. There is a deep unity between their mission, their community life and the Eucharist.

With "an ear glued to the Gospel and the other one to life" (Mgr Angelelli) , they ponder over events together and recognize. the signs of the Spirit in them.

In their prayer, they present to God the cries of the poor, intercede with them and give thanks for what they go through, testifying thereby the kingdom of God:

"Faith?  Lord of Heaven and Earth!  I thank you because you have shown to the unlearned what you have hidden from the wise and learned..." (Mt 11. 25)
 

As a true Assumptionist, Etienne Pernet was haunted by the idea of extending the Reign of God.

"You will go everywhere, because every-where there are the sick and the poor and souls to be saved. The Little Sister is a missionary. She is so all the more since she must live in the midst of the poor!" Etienne Pernet

In 1877, "the departure for Creil (60 km from Paris) was a great event for the Congregation. It was the first group of Sisters going to live at a considerable distance from the mother house and the chosen missionaries were regarded with almost as much veneration as if they had been going for a mission to the Indies."
Mother Mary of Jesus

Their apostolic activities, which vary from country to country, are carried out among people who are impoverished:
 

•  work with families
•  health and social projects
•  action for the advancement of women
•  human and spiritual development
• facilitating and working with groups
• deepening of faith

• offer their lives so that the kingdom may come among the poor and "Little ones";
• recreate, with them, a people for God;
• work with others to bring about a world where there is justice and peace.

"There are no foreign Little Sisters, you all belong to the same family." Etienne Pernet

The family spirit embraces relatives, friends, colleagues, volunteers and all those who are linked to the Little Sisters in one way or another. Consecrated laywomen, members of the Association Our Lady of the Assumption (AOLA), share the Little Sister's charism.

The "Family of the Assumption" brings together five congregations that are inspired by the same passion for the Kingdom of God:
 

• the Religious of the Assumption (Sisters)
• the Assumptionist Fathers
• the Oblates (Sisters)
• the Little Sisters of the Assumption
• the Orantes (Sisters)

For More Information Contact:

Sr. Annette Allain, LSA

Coordinator, U.S. Territory
475 East 115th Street
New York, NY. 10029
(212) 289-4014
 E-mail: srannette@littlesisters.org

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