Laughter, music and heartfelt gratitude filled the air as Mercy Works marked 25 years of walking alongside communities and changing lives at its Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser on 23 October 2025. Held at Cloister Hall in Parramatta, Sydney, the evening brought together Sisters of Mercy, partners, schools, volunteers and supporters to honour a journey of

A group of Sisters and friends under the banner of Mercies* will be attending the Rising Tide Protestival at the Newcastle channel on November 28-30. They will join other like-minded organisations at the event, such as the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change. Sally Neaves, Integral Ecology Animator for the Institute of Sisters of Mercy of

Young Mercy Links (YML) recently gathered for our annual retreat. Each year has a different theme and focus, but each gathering we allow ourselves a rare time of quiet reflection and an opportunity for group bonding. It is also a time for extended formation and unpacking Mercy and its relevance in our lives, as well

Members of Young Mercy Links (YML) have contributed strongly to the 2000 trees that have been planted by the Institute as part of Catholic Religious Australia’s 10,000 for 10 campaign. YML have been heavily involved in the Institute’s pledge to contribute to Catholic Religious Australia’s initiative to plant 10,000 trees for the 10th Anniversary of

A stimulating compilation of rituals, Earth Have Mercy: Rituals for Creation, Lament, and Renewal in an Era of Extinction has been released. The rituals have been woven together by Sister Margie Abbott. The rituals were originally developed by Sister Margie for her monthly Zoom session Eco-Online, which she has been hosting for the past seven

Sister Maryanne Loughry is part of an inter-disciplinary team in India studying the ethical issues arising from people being displaced due to the impacts of a changing climate. It is a sobering fact that by 2050 it is projected that 1.2 billion people could be displaced by the impacts of natural disasters and climate change.

In a few weeks’ time, Sister Emma Llewellyn will make her perpetual profession as a Sister of Mercy, a day she has anticipating not just for the past 10 years since she entered the Institute, but in many ways for most of her life. “I am certainly feeling excited and I am anticipating the ‘big

In this Jubilee Year of Hope, sisters and  people of Mercy have joined with their hearts, minds, prayers, reflections and actions in bringing about a renewed sense of hope in their lives and the wider world. Mercy…Our Pilgrimage of Hope commenced in June and concludes in December. During this time, our Mercy pilgrims have journeyed

A Mass will be celebrated at St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth on Thursday, January 8 to mark 180 years since the arrival of the first Sisters of Mercy in Australia and to give thanks for the tens of thousands of women and men who have been inspired by by Catherine McAuley’s expression of Mercy in the

In May, Mercy Works – in partnership with the Diocese of Kundiawa in Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea – undertook an ambitious project to install water tanks into 14 schools in just 28 days. Now hundreds of students, teachers and staff have much improved access to clean water for drinking, handwashing, cooking and cleaning. Water

In her poem Mercy Is, Mary Wickham writes that “[Mercy’s] feet are calloused from long roads trudged with refugee and beggar.” Recently, Young Mercy Links (YML) have walked along roads alongside people from the community, both figuratively and literally.   In May, we held a walkathon to raise funds for the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)

Sister Margaret Hart is a Sister of Mercy living in Young, a town that she has called home for the past five years. She arrived in south-central New South Wales ‘well and truly at retirement age without a job’ which meant rediscovering ways of living out her vocation, having spent many years of more formal