Religious of the Assumption


The Religious of the Assumption is an international Roman Catholic women's congregation founded by Saint Marie Eugénie Milleret in Paris in 1839, and dedicated to the education of young girls. The Assumption Mission Associates is an affiliated organization providing an opportunity for young people to experience working with the sisters in their now various ministries.

History

The congregation was founded in 1839 by Eugénie Milleret de Bron,, now Assumption Mission Associates, as a ministry of young adults.

Currently

As of 2019, the Religious of the Assumption is an international congregation of more than 1200 Sisters of over 40 nationalities, responding to the challenges and calls of society in 35 countries. The Mother House is located in Paris, France, with communities in places including Madrid, Mexico City and Querétaro in Mexico, Manila, Bangkok, and Rwanda.
The Assumption Sisters first came to the U.S. in 1919 and opened Ravenhill Academy, a boarding school for girls, in Philadelphia. In the United States, the order has houses in Worcester, MA; Philadelphia, PA; and Lansdale, PA. They can be found in the inner city and the suburbs, in the rural southwest and the urban Northeast. They teach in colleges and run after-school programs for children; and teach English as a Second Language; they work in parishes and offer faith formation programs. The community in Chaparral, New Mexico works in immigrant advocacy. In January 2018, former superior general Diana Wauters noted that the immigrants the sisters worked with fifteen years age came for economic reasons and educational opportunities for their children, whereas in 2018 "...here on the US/Mexican Border it is largely due to violence, drug cartels, corrupt security forces, impunity, extortion, kidnappings…"
Their communities are committed to effecting change in society through prayer and education. They are a diverse group of women from many countries who live together in close-knit communities. Prayer is at the heart of their educational mission. A teaching order, it sees education as a process by which the human person is freed and society transformed. That freedom marks their life together in community, as well their work for the coming of the Kingdom of God.