News | Missionary Sisters of Service

Invitation to host fundraising dinner at home

Sep 11, 2020 | News

For those of us in Victoria, we’re really looking forward to the time when we can invite extended family and friends into our homes to share a lovely meal around the kitchen table. The current COVID pandemic has certainly provided many opportunities for us to...

Getting out locally for ‘Yarck to Yea’ Walk, Run, Ride

Sep 3, 2020 | Events, News

Each year, together with our mission entity Highways and Byways – A Community of Service, we host the Yarck to Yea Walk, Run, Ride fundraising event. Funds raised during the Walk, Run, Ride go toward small grants and programs coordinated by Highways and Byways...

The Highways & Byways, and MSS August newsletter is out now!

Aug 21, 2020 | News, Newsletter

The August 2020 newsletter from our mission entity Highways and Byways – A Community of Service is out now! It features detailed information on some of the projects that have been funded in rural and regional areas of Australia, through its 2020 Small Grants...

Winter-Spring meditations on Zoom

Aug 20, 2020 | Events, News

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Australian Network for Spiritual Direction has hosted a weekly meditation for the support and healing of the world suffering from the impact of the pandemic. The meditation takes place on Friday afternoons, from 4:00pm –...

Open letter calls for Australia to join Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Aug 6, 2020 | News

Seventy-five years after the destruction of Hiroshima with one nuclear weapon, religious groups across Australia, including the Missionary Sisters of Service, are raising the call for Australia to sign and ratify the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear...

Interfaith gathering to mark 75-year anniversary of nuclear bombings

Aug 2, 2020 | Events, News

Thursday the 6th of August marks 75 years since the nuclear attack on Hiroshima in 1945. Days later, on 9th August, a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. By the end of that year, Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered more than 200,000 deaths and countless injuries. The...