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By Little Work of Divine Providence we mean the set of foundations that started directly on the initiative of Don Orione or, after his death, as a development of his previous indications. The Founder's program is very precise: "The Little Work of Divine Providence, in order to sow Christ, faith and civilization, in the humblest and neediest furrows of humanity, takes on different forms and methods, creates and nurtures diversity of institutions. His yearning is the diffusion, among the people, of the Gospel and of love for the Pope, "sweet Christ on earth", as well as a more lively and greater spirit of fraternal charity among men". (Don Orione) [See: DON ORIONE PRESENTS THE SMALL WORK OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE]

What constitutes the Little Work of Divine Providence (also called by some "the great Orionine Family") is the sharing of the same charism and communion with the other components of the same "single plant but with many branches, all enlivened by the same lymph" . (Don Orion).

Children of Divine Providence Consecrated to bring the little ones, the poor, the people to the Church and to the Pope, to 'establish omnia in Christo', through works of charity.

Lay religious brothers who live the path of holiness and apostolate in the Church, in collaboration with religious priests.

Contemplative hermits who, in community, live the donation to God in silence, prayer and work, the "praying heart" of the Orionine Family

Little Missionary Sisters of CharityMissionaries of Charity, that is of God, with the exercise of charity, to experience the Providence of God and the motherhood of the Church.

Blind sacramentals They personify prayer in the Institute, in support of the work of the nuns, priests and missionaries engaged in the apostolate of charity.

Contemplatives of Jesus Crucified In the silence of the cloister they prolong their thanksgiving and offering to Jesus Crucified for the redemption of souls.

Istituto Secolare OrioninoThey are lay people, consecrated men and women with vows, who live the Orionine charism "like hidden leaven", remaining in their ordinary surroundings of family, work and apostolate.

Movimento Laicale Orionino Includes the various associations and categories of lay people who, "inside and outside" the institutions, share the spirit and service proper to the Orionine charism

Mission

The origin of the Orionine apostolate The spiritual children of Saint Luigi Orione learn from him himself to see and feel Christ in man and, therefore, to always work with zeal, with ardor for the cause of God, of the Church, of souls. They work convinced that apostolic and charitable action is part of the very nature of religious life as it constitutes a sacred ministry and a work of charity entrusted by the Church and exercised in her name. Therefore the Sons of Divine Providence do everything to ensure that their entire religious life is imbued with an apostolic spirit and all their apostolic action is animated by a religious spirit in intimate union with the divine Master. In a wholly missionary Church, as bearers of a concrete charism, they recognize themselves as being called to a specific apostolic mission, in which they commit all their strength and faithfully adhere to the indications and pastoral plans of the Church. Exercising apostolic action in the name and by mandate of the Church, they try to always lead her in full communion with her. To qualify their action, they bring to it the perspectives, impulses and style proper to the Founder who guarantees, beyond the variety and multiplicity of the works, his own apostolic identity.

(from the website www.donorione.org )