We, Missionary Sisters of Service, keep busy in our various communities. We host and attend events, are busy with different projects, and happenings. On this page, you’ll find links to all our latest news and events, reflections and books.
Today, 3 August, marks 25 years since the death of Fr John Corcoran Wallis, visionary founder of the Missionary Sisters of Service, pastoral priest, spiritual guide and friend to generations of people whose lives he touched. To mark the anniversary, the Missionary...
The Missionary Sisters of Service warmly invite family, friends and all who have been touched by the life and ministry of Fr John Corcoran Wallis to join us as we remember, give thanks and celebrate the 25th anniversary of his death. Fr John Wallis (1910–2001) was the...
On Sunday, July 6th, 2025, approximately 50 friends, family, colleagues and former staff of the MSS gathered at the University of Divinity in Box Hill for a special High Tea event. The occasion provided an opportunity for the MSS to formally thank all who’d been...
We have another wonderful good news story! Geraldine Vytilingam, who received the MSS scholarship in honour of Fr John Wallis’ 90th Ordination Anniversary and who finished her Master of Theological Studies at the end of last year, has received the Catholic Theological...
On Wednesday 27 November, some of our Melbourne sisters, including Stancea Vichie MSS, Bernadette Wallis MSS and Bernadette Madden MSS, gathered with members of the John Wallis Highways and Byways Hobart branch, to acknowledge their wonderful work with the John Wallis...
On Monday 25 November, while members of the Melbourne-based MSS were still in Hobart following the Bruny Island pilgrimage, we had the ‘official farewell’ of our MSS archives from Hobart. We gathered at State Cinema coffee shop across from The Wallis Centre in Hobart,...
In May 2024, members of the Deaf community gathered at the John Pierce Centre (JPC) to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic Deaf Association in Victoria. Visitors came from interstate to celebrate. A special celebratory Mass was held on...
The MSS are delighted to announce that Geraldine Vytilingam is the recipient of the 2023-2024 Fr John Wallis Scholarship. Geraldine, 23, will use the inaugural scholarship (awarded in 2022) to pursue a Masters of Theological Studies through Catholic Theological...
On 18 December 2022, we celebrate and acknowledge the 90-year anniversary of ordination of our founder, Fr John Wallis. We have so much to be grateful for! And the fact that he established our community of women in 1944, we’re so fortunate that all of us MSS knew and...
The founder of the Missionary Sisters of Service, Fr John Corcoran Wallis, is originally from Yea, in country Victoria, about an hour and a half's drive from our Melbourne sisters. Born in 1910, ordained a priest at 22-years for the Archdiocese of Hobart (December...
The 2022 John Wallis Lecture is taking place on Thursday 6 October, both in person and via Zoom! All are invited to hear guest speaker, Elissa Roper, presenting on the topic, Baptismal Responsibility, a Spirit-led Church for Today's World. An especially exciting...
Reflection by Catherine Carr, MSS Coordinator Fr John Wallis was born on 11th June 1910 in the Victorian country town of Yea. On 9th June 2022, 112 years after his birth, at the Melbourne home of his niece Bernadette Wallis, several MSS women and staff gathered to...