Daily they went to visit the families and were searching for a house. It was not very easy. One day Mother Theresa took us to a wealthy man and with his help we got a shared flat. From the meager income we got from our diffusion work we began to buy a few necessary things for the new house, linens, mattresses, be sheets, clothes, suitcases a nd a sewing machine. A little later Sr. Nazarena with Doris (a postulent then) joined us.

On 31 December 1956 we moved to Calcutta to our new residence. The Daughters of the Cross were very kind enough to send us by their school bus, laden with fruits and vegetables. We stayed in our flat for 8 years. Fr. Tempra SSP from Bombay helped to put up the Book Centre. He also got a lot of free books from England. It was a great providence of God.

The sisters of Charity lent us an altar. The Loretto Sisters lent us the pews for the chapel. Mr. Pereira gave us beautiful curtains to divide the refectory so that we could have some space for the chapel. Soon we were having daily Mass in our Chapel. Then slowly our community began to grow in number. Srs. Raffaella and Regina Palliparampil joined us. They continued visiting the families.

The Bishop and Msgr. Barber were good to us with the help of Msgr. Barber we found the present house at 35 Royd Street. There were some tenants and we began to pray that they might clear the house soon.

At this time we got the news of the death of our blessed Maestra Thecla on 5 February 1964. Then we began a novena to her. To our surprise, before the end of the Novena all the tenants moved out of the building. And we gladly occupied the house at 35 Royd Street. That was a memorable year 1964.

On 8 September 1974 the new Book and Media Centre and Reading Room was blessed and inaugurated in Calcutta by Archbishop Piccachy.
Meanwhile the Juniorate also had been started in Calcutta. The first group consisted of 8 sisters with Sr. Thecla as their Directress as well as the community Superior. After a year the Juniorate was shifted to Bombay.
The community took part in the Calcutta Book Fair for the first time in 1985. The Alberione Lending Library was inaugurated in 1988. In 2002 the Book Centre was renovated and it caters to the people of Bengal and surrounding areas. The sisters also reach out from Calcutta to all the surrounding places through the visit to the schools, families, taking part in Book Fairs, organising Bible Weeks and conducting animation programmes in the schools and parishes

It celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2006 (click here for details)