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.
Our congregational leader, Stancea Vichie, attended the sixth Mission: One Heart Many Voices national conference held in Sydney from 3-5 May 2023. The conference is held every two years, and is convened by Catholic Religious Australia in conjunction with Catholic...
We're pleased to share that Catholic Social Services Victoria and Catholic Social Services Australia are hosting a three-part webinar series on this year’s Voice to Parliament Referendum. The joint event, titled Indigenous Voice to Parliament: Moments for healing this...
We're pleased to share with you our latest Highways and Byways - Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves, Together and Missionary Sisters of Service newsletter. Again, we're diversifying our distribution methods with there being both an online eNewsletter, and a...
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...
The MSS continues to move along with the transition for our services to Emerging Futures Collaborative Limited (EFCL). As mentioned in our April 2022 newsletter, one of the tasks conducted by EFCL is to employ people on our behalf, to support our sisters into the...
Friends, 2023 is a significant year, as in October, Australians will be called upon to vote in a referendum where we will be asked if we support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament being enshrined in our Constitution. A Voice to Parliament will give Indigenous...
My early memories of growing up are good memories, surprisingly profound in hindsight. My parents and the three of us were impacted greatly by the then ‘signs of the times’. Now, several years later, I realise that this experience was a strong basis for the choices I...
Over the past 12 months, we MSS have been documenting our stories and reflections on video, as a way of keeping our thoughts and memories, and spirit alive. We've reflected on the following questions: (1) What drew you to the MSS? (2) What has been the main expression...
For almost 80 years, the MSS has been a presence of God’s love and friendship in the lives of countless people whom we’ve met on the highways and byways of Australia and beyond. At its peak, we had more than 55 women in our community. Today, there are 21 of us—11 in...
Hello! The Missionary Sisters of Service are 'officially back' for 2023 and what better way to start our year than with the news that our mission entity, Highways and Byways - Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves, Together's Small Grants Program opens for applications...
Together with our mission entity, Highways and Byways - Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves, Together, the MSS are pleased to share our December newsletter with you. We have the online eNewsletter version available, here, or you might like to download and print the...
This year, Mary Cleary celebrated the diamond jubilee (60-year anniversary) of when she first joined the MSS. She was 22 years old, and had moved from her hometown of Warwick, a town about 130 kilometres south-west of Brisbane, Queensland, to join the community down...