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.
We’re delighted to close our year of celebrations to mark 80 years since our foundation with a pilgrimage to Bruny Island, Tasmania, a place of deep significance to the MSS. From 21-24 November, 25 friends of the MSS, including Highways and Byways board members and...
It was a joy to celebrate our 80-year anniversary of foundation in Whyalla, South Australia, as well as marking 52 years of the MSS being in the Port Pirie diocese. Friends, family, and colleagues joined Cheryle Thomson MSS, who has worked in the Port Pirie diocese...
In an historic moment for the Missionary Sisters of Service (MSS), Archbishop of Melbourne, Peter A. Comensoli, has issued a decree appointing Good Samaritan Sister, Veronica Hoey, as the Canonical Delegate for the MSS for the next three years. This marks a new model...
In this 20-minute video interview, Corrie van den Bosch MSS, speaks candidly about her new book, Graced Beyond Telling: A Soul's Dark Journey. Corrie shares her reflections based on the following questions: When did you start writing the book, and what was the process...
Friends, we're pleased to share with you our MSS July 2024 eNewsletter, which features news of our ongoing celebrations to mark our 80-year anniversary of foundation. You can also download a PDF version of the MSS's July newsletter, here. We've held several events to...
It is with great joy that we commemorate and celebrate the 80-year anniversary of our foundation in 2024. Though we say this often, it does bear repeating—we have so much to be thankful for, with much of that gratitude extending to so many of you across our ancient...
Not only do we celebrate the 80-year anniversary of foundation of the MSS in Australia in 2024; we also celebrate the 60-year anniversary of foundation of our sisters in the Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba, Queensland. Pat Quinn MSS recently penned a beautiful...
Pat Brain was born in Hobart and grew up in Strahan on Tasmania’s west coast. She first encountered the Missionary Sisters of Service, then known as the Home Missionary Sisters of Our Lady, as a child. Sisters Vianney and Joseph were visiting Strahan, and instructing...
As part of our legacy and commitment to the formation and encouragement of pastoral and theological education, particularly for young women, the MSS have been offering annual study scholarships through the University of Divinity, in Melbourne. Geraldine Vytilingam was...
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...
Work on the MSS archives in Hobart, Tasmania, continues. Both Bernadette Wallis MSS and MSS Assistant Archivist, Julia Walsh, have spent weeks at a time in The Wallis Centre, Hobart, over the past months, going through, sorting, cataloguing and preparing the MSS...
On Saturday 13 April, Graced Beyond Telling: A Soul’s Dark Journey had its second launch, this time in Hobart, Tasmania. The Hobart branch of Highways and Byways, Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves, Together ('Highways and Byways') organised the event with Penny...