Love Comes Looking for Us
Feast of the Sacred Heart. The heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of “God’s boundless and passionate love for humankind” [1] and in light of the writings of Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, Elia Delio, Beatrice Bruteau and others, is referred to as the Sacred Heart enflamed, the incarnate Word, the Cosmic Christ, […]
Laudato Si’ Webinar: Part Three
In May 2015 Pope Francis launched his encyclical with the subtitle “On Care for our Common Home” and the title “Laudato Si’” which are the opening words for a hymn composed by St Francis of Assisi in the 1200s. For our time, this document is both relevant and important, since it highlights the priority that […]
Media Release: Sr Margaret Cleary Awarded Order of Australia Medal
Sister Margaret Cleary of the Sisters of Saint Joseph awarded Order of Australia Medal in Queen’s Birthday Honours. The Sisters of Saint Joseph are delighted to announce that Sister Margaret Cleary has been awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020 For Service to the Catholic Church of […]
Reflection on Mary MacKillop
In 1873-1874 Mary travelled from Rome and then to London where the McDougalls invited her to stay at their house in Clapham Park and make herself at home during their absence. Mary then travelled to Paris and to her ancestral home the Braes of Lochaber in Scotland. The servants had been well instructed, and Mary […]
Keeping kids healthy during COVID-19
How you can keep kids healthy in Timor-Leste during COVID-19. Many teachers and community leaders in Timor-Leste are currently not equipped to educate children and their families on basic health and hygiene practices that can prevent diseases like COVID-19. Will you help keep kids healthy and fight COVID-19 in Timor-Leste with a gift towards our Health Literacy […]
Josephite Charism
Never See a Need…. During a Pandemic. Sisters, and those inspired by the charism of Mary MacKillop, have ministered in a Josephite spirit since 1866. They have been inspired by the words of their Founder Rev Julian Tenison Woods: ‘Never see a need without doing something about it’ and their ministries have been in many […]
Celebrating Communion and Oneness
Trinity Sunday 2020. The God of “tenderness and compassion” (Exodus 34:6) is a God that we Christians have experienced as the Holy Trinity – three persons in one God. Through our initiation into the family of believers we are intimately related to the Father/Mother God through Jesus with whom God is one, and to the […]
Mabo Day 2020
We commemorate Mabo Day on 3 June to honour the courageous efforts of Eddie Koiki Mabo to overturn the fiction of terra nullius (land belonging to no-one). My name is Edward Mabo, but my island name is Koiki. My family has occupied the land here for hundreds of years before Captain Cook was born. They […]
54th World Communications Day 2020
When we look back at 2020, we will recall how the year began with the daily news focussed on the devastation caused by the bushfires burning across our country. Meanwhile, silently, a new danger threatened, one that would call forth reserves of courage and commitment from us all. We will look back and remember media […]
Irene McCormack Reflection
Irene McCormack, Sister of Saint Joseph, killed by Shining Path Terrorists in Huasahuasi on 21 May, 1991. If you go into Google, you will find a web page for Irene McCormack, Sister of Saint Joseph, killed by Shining Path Terrorists in Huasahuasi on 21 May, 1991. In El Pacifico there is a large cross which […]
Sr Edith Prince Rite of Committal
Sister Edith Prince entered eternal life on 11 May 2020. We celebrate and give thanks for the life of Sister Edith. Sister Edith Prince Liturgy Booklet (PDF) Rite of Committal for Sister Edith Prince (PDF)
‘Everything is Connected’ – Laudato Si’ Week 2020
This week (16-24 May), we celebrate the fifth anniversary of Laudato Si’, the amazing and life changing encyclical by Pope Francis. This revolutionary document calls us, as Catherine Shelton rsj so succinctly states: To profound change, a radical new consciousness of our relatedness within every aspect of creation. It calls us to grow into a […]