Sr Silvia Campo RSM, 6 November 2025 This week, Sr Silvia Campo shares her own story about a liturgy with the community of Italian background in Melbourne. She has supported them in many ways over the years. Thanks, Silvia! With great enthusiasm and some degree of insistence, Rachel – we are old school friends fromContinue reading “Liturgy Through Italian Eyes”
Category Archives: Sisters
Catechist to Catechist
Elizabeth Young rsm, 23 October 2025 I belong to an international religious order – the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea. And we have been celebrating our newest saint: St Peter To Rot, who was canonised on the 19th of October, the first one of his country. Reading the news this week,Continue reading “Catechist to Catechist”
Choose Leaders Among Yourselves
Sr Carmel Setford RSM, 9 May 2024 Carmel Setford RSM was a teacher and school principal for 37 Years. As Principal of Parish Primary Schools it meant automatic involvement in the parish and so it seemed a natural progression in 1997 to accept the position as Parish Leader in a small country parish, comprising ofContinue reading “Choose Leaders Among Yourselves”
Leading for Belonging
Sr Catherine Seward RSM, 7 March 2024 For Sr Catherine Seward RSM, parish leadership in the diverse community of Mansfield Park SA was “the happiest time of my life”. It wasn’t something she had ever imagined doing. Catherine started as a teacher, as her mother was very “anti me being a nun”. Yet after movingContinue reading “Leading for Belonging”
Representing the Church – A Person not a Building
Sr Coral Hedley RSM, 8 February 2024 In 1975, the Bishop of Armidale NSW asked Sr Coral Hedley to take care of the priestless parish of Bingara. And what was the most important part of the ministry? It was “to be a presence. To represent the Church in a person, rather than a building.” AlongsideContinue reading “Representing the Church – A Person not a Building”
Do We Need Women Deacons?
Marie Therese Levey rsj, 3 August 2023 This week I am sharing an article written by Marie Levey rsj that she has kindly offered for publication. Marie lives in Sydney, New South Wales. In Chapter 16 of his letter to the Romans, St Paul writes “I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess ofContinue reading “Do We Need Women Deacons?”
The Tables in My Life
Sr Jwan Kada IBVM, 18 May 2023 Sr Jwan Kada’s experiences of faith and ministry have been centred around tables, and for her, they are always eucharistic. It all started as she grew up in Iraq, fully immersed in the Chaldean Catholic Church. Before she was a teenager, Jwan would perform ‘Mass’ for her family,Continue reading “The Tables in My Life”
Preaching for the Fifth Sunday of Easter – the Seven Delegated and Sent
Elizabeth Young rsm, 1 May 2023 This week I was privileged to be asked to preach for Catholic Women Preach, a global project that uses modern technology to bring the voices of diverse Catholic women to the proclamation of the Gospel. On this Fifth Sunday of Easter, like the early followers of Jesus, we areContinue reading “Preaching for the Fifth Sunday of Easter – the Seven Delegated and Sent”
Women and the Permanent Diaconate? Fears and Hopes
Elizabeth Young rsm, 13 April 2023, First published in The Diaconate, National Association of Deacons of Australia Newsletter, March 2023, Issue 7 Along our journey of life, we all have hopes and fears about the future. We hope for a liveable interdependent Earth. We hope for world peace. We fear the growth of inequality andContinue reading “Women and the Permanent Diaconate? Fears and Hopes”
Liturgy, Word, Service and Funerals Close to the Heart
Sr Stancea Vichie MSS, 2 March 2023 In 2016, Sr Stancea Vichie MSS was in Rome with the International Union of Superiors General, in a meeting with Pope Francis. It was there that the question arose: as women already function effectively as deacons, could they not be ordained like those women in the early Church?Continue reading “Liturgy, Word, Service and Funerals Close to the Heart”
Liturgy on the Margins 