2022 Yarck to Yea – Walk Run Ride, August 27

2022 Yarck to Yea – Walk Run Ride, August 27

Aug 1, 2022 | Events

After a two year hiatus due to Covid-19, we are pleased to announce that our mission entity, Highways and Byways – Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves, Together, is once again hosting the Yarck to Yea Ride-Walk-Run. We encourage you to don your walking and/or riding...
Frances McShane MSS, a life of service and welcome

Frances McShane MSS, a life of service and welcome

Jul 30, 2022 | Reflections

Frances McShane MSS was born in Broadmarsh, Tasmania and is one of nine in the family. She joined the MSS in 1960 and was professed on the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August 1963. Reflecting on her time as an MSS and some of the stories that remain close to her heart,...
Celebrating Diamond Jubilee anniversaries

Celebrating Diamond Jubilee anniversaries

Jul 30, 2022 | News

In August 2022, we give thanks for, and celebrate the 60-year anniversaries of profession of Corrie van den Bosch, Kath Clune, June Dunford and Lorraine Groves MSS. We also remember Sr Helen Haywood, deceased, who would have also celebrated this significant...
Australian Plenary Council: The way forward

Australian Plenary Council: The way forward

Jul 15, 2022 | News

It has been a significant time for so many people that the 5th Plenary Council of the church in Australia took place from 3–9 July, the first Council in over 80 years. People came from across the country, along with overseas visitors, and there was a great team of...
My introduction to Fr John Wallis

My introduction to Fr John Wallis

Jun 30, 2022 | Father John, News, Reflections

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...