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History & Charism

   "In Jesus we find everything"

   From the Rule written by the Founder (the Good Father) in the early years of the community:
   “In Jesus we find everything: his birth, his life and his death; that is our rule.”

   The Congregation is a community of some 1500 Brothers and Sisters who are present in more than 30 countries. The SS.CC. family also includes a Secular Branch associated with the Congregation. One of the best known members of our SS.CC family is Blessed Damien de Veuster, apostle of leprosy patients on the island of Molokai in Hawaii.

   In some countries our Congregation is known by the name "Picpus", after rue de Picpus, the street where our central house was established shortly after the community's foundation. The french Provincial house of the Sisters is still in that house, as well as a community of Brothers.

   Our mission can be summarized as: to contemplate, live and announce God's Love which was made flesh in Jesus, especially through Eucharistic Adoration and service of the most needy.

   On Christmas day 2000 the Congregation has celebrated its two hundredth anniversary. The Congregation wants to unite itself to the whole Church in this new Millenium, seeing this as an important time of personal and communal renewal.

   More information on our Congregation is available at this site in three languages.

(09/05/2007)

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