Our News
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.
Invitation to all people who practice meditation
People throughout the world, from different spiritual traditions and cultures, meditate as part of their spiritual practice. One of our sisters, Corrie van den Bosch MSS, discerned over some time in prayer, that if all meditators, each in his/her own place and...
Invitation to host fundraising dinner at home
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 think...
Getting out locally for ‘Yarck to Yea’ Walk, Run, Ride
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 - A...
The Highways & Byways, and MSS August newsletter is out now!
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 Program....
Winter-Spring meditations on Zoom
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 - 5:00pm, on...
Life as Mission, a reflection by Maureen Hickling MSS
Maureen Hickling MSS featured in our August 2020 newsletter. Here is the full version of Maureen's beautiful reflection, which had been originally shared as part of our 2019 MSS Chapter Gathering. Maureen wrote: For more than 20 years now I have lived, moved and had...
Open letter calls for Australia to join Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
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
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...
There’s more than one way to give a hug
We wanted to share this heart-warming story shared by Corrie van den Bosch MSS and Amanda Freeman, who has been a friend of the MSS for many years (Amanda was on the Board of The John Wallis Foundation, now Highways and Byways - A Community of Service, and also...