A Catholic medical order that provides free health care to the poor.

Medical Missionaries Mission Statement

United as a religious family through their special devotion to the Sacred Hearts and by their profession of the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience, the Sisters, Little Workers, live, pray and work together. The Medical Branch will live a private fourth vow of free loving medical care for the poor and uninsured.

Our life of communion, grounded in the contemplation and imitation of Jesus and Mary, is the source and support of all we do.

The Little Workers' principal ministry embraces a wide range of catechetical activity in parishes, such as directing religious education programs, teaching religious education, and educating catechists to form others in the Faith.  The Medical Branch focuses specifically in serving the poor medically at many levels depending on the medical gifts of our sisters.  We are counselors, pharmacist, doctors, nurses, social workers who serve Christ medically in the poor through out the world.

The Little Workers, however, consider themselves catechists in all that they do for the people of God. They therefore, are involved in various charitable works determined by the needs of the people and place in which they are stationed. Our medical sisters for example care for the sick and elderly by working as nurses or doctors in hospitals and in the nursing homes, and by caring for shut-ins. Other sisters are dedicated to youth ministry, working to meet the spiritual needs of young women and men through youth group activities, retreats, and individual spiritual direction. Many sisters are involved in early childhood, middle and high school education, seeking to lead children and young people to God as they strive to prepare them academically.

Medical Missionaries Mission Goal

The Medical Missionaries, POSC was initially started under the prayerful guidance of James Cardinal Hickey and Bishop Lori of Washington DC (named by Cardinal Hickey as the Medical Missionaries of the Poor)  In November 21, 2002 we became an official branch of the Sisters, Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts.

We are pro-life doctors and nurses called to be medical defenders of life from the moment of conception to natural death. Jesus teaches us to do this in His gospel; and this is how we, as Medical Missionaries, will follow Jesus from this moment on.

We ask you to join us in this service to Jesus as He comes to us in the humble disguise of the poor. “As you did it to the least, you did it to Me...” Matt 25:40.

We are a community of contemplative-active medical sisters and co-workers whose labor will continually be nourished by prayerful lives, centered on the Eucharist, for the Honor and Glory of God and for the salvation of our souls and all souls.

Our loving, free medical services will be offered to all of the poorest of the poor and to religious and priests.

We will also be offering continuing medical and nursing education to missionaries around the world.

Our work, to serve Jesus in the Humble disguise of the poor will only be possible if we nourish our religious prayer lives by daily Eucharist in mass and Adoration as well as our daily community prayers of the Liturgy of the Hours, rosary and monthly retreats.

The place of our Holy Mother Mary and the Saints in our daily lives are examples to us of prayer devotion to the Eucharist, Spiritual Direction, and humble, cheerful, patient works of mercy bringing healing to the poorest of the poor (Vatican II- Universal Call to Holiness; Lumen Gentium, Chapter 46).

Understanding and living as a Medical Missionary, Little Worker our three simple vows of Poverty, Chastity, Obedience, and our fourth private vow of Free loving Medical Service to the Poorest of the Poor and Hospitality in our MM Community, Clinics, Hospitals, Operating Rooms, Parishes etc. (1 Corinthians 13), (Luke 10:29-37), the Gospel of Life (John Paul II # 87)