Cheryle Thomson MSS enjoying her new home in Port Pirie, SA

Cheryle Thomson MSS enjoying her new home in Port Pirie, SA

Dec 4, 2023 | News

Having left her hometown of Port Pirie, South Australia, 50 years ago, Cheryle Thomson MSS has now moved back. Cheryle will celebrate her 50-year anniversary next month having joined the MSS in January 1974, aged 23-years. As a Missionary Sister of Service, Cheryle...
Save the date! Bruny Island 2024 pilgrimage

Save the date! Bruny Island 2024 pilgrimage

Dec 4, 2023 | Events, News

Tasmania’s Bruny Island, on Nuenonne Country, is historically significant to the MSS. It’s the place where our story begins. It was on Bruny Island that our founder, Fr John Wallis, first heard the call of a mother, Mrs Kit Hawkins, who asked: ‘Who is looking after us...
Congratulations to award recipient Lorraine Groves MSS

Congratulations to award recipient Lorraine Groves MSS

Dec 4, 2023 | News

Congratulations to Lorraine Groves MSS, who was awarded the Guildford Young Medal for Service to Community in Tasmania in November 2023. Lorraine was among a group of nine people who were awarded the Guilford Young Medal at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Hobart,...
August newsletter out now

August newsletter out now

Aug 16, 2023 | Newsletter

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 for the MSS, and...
Celebrating 79 years since our foundation

Celebrating 79 years since our foundation

Jul 8, 2023 | News

On 8th July 2023, our community celebrates our 79th anniversary of the MSS beginnings. We certainly have much for which to be grateful and rejoice in the fact that our mission is still continuing through each one of us and the great work of Highways and Byways –...