The Little Sisters of Jesus were originally founded for the nomads of the Sahara. Then, an intense spiritual experience left L.sr. Magdeleine with “something like a wound in the heart”, an immense compassion for all suffering, a love that would burn and drive her to the ends of the earth. L.sr. Magdeleine couldn’t do otherwise than to consent to this Love. Foundations multiplied like “soap bubbles” over the five continents. “I want you to be light, as light as a soap bubble that a child at play can blow in all directions. Like a ball that the child Jesus can turn and toss in his hands according to his will.” (L.sr. Magdeleine). We are at present a little more than nine hundred little sisters present in some fifty countries.
Where do we live?
Only love
L.sr. Sophia-Kyeng-Ja
Through living as a stranger, I’ve come to better understand the mystery of the Incarnation. In order to come, you first have to leave everything that is dear and familiar. Then you have to gain acceptance and grow in this land. Sometimes it means being humiliated and even rejected. Only love can undergo this process and move it forward. Since beginning work in a sewing factory, I spend most of my time with my work mates. They teach me the language and culture of this place. Each day I ask the Lord to give me a disciple’s tongue and a child’s heart so that I might be born again here…in this country that is becoming mine.