From its beginnings as a convent school, Santa Casa Retreat Centre continues to provide a sacred space for visitors to reflect, seek and deepen their connection with God and the cosmos. In 2023, Santa Casa will offer fourteen in-house retreats that are open to the public as well as a selection of one-day retreats.

St Patrick’s College Townsville has embodied Mercy values, such as compassion, respect, integrity, justice, hope, and joy, since the late 1800s, inspired by Sisters of Mercy foundress Catherine McAuley. Today, the college takes pride in welcoming young women from diverse national, cultural, and faith backgrounds, and in fostering a community that seeks to build relationships

Sr Maryanne interviewing Mercy Works PNG team staff member, Gabriella Kawage.   Radio is a powerful medium that can inform, educate and change lives. It connects people and communities – none more important than the remote regions highlands of Papua New Guinea where Sister Maryanne Kolkia has been broadcasting nightly sessions for around 14 years

  The Mercy Integral Ecology Emerging Leaders Fellowship is once again up and running thanks to the support of donors and partnerships with other Religious Institutes. Once again, we welcome highly-skilled and committed candidates into the program from a range of backgrounds, all of whom already have experience as leaders, who now seek to address

  On Sunday November 13, Young Mercy Links hosted a Clothing Swap to help end hyper-consumerism. As it was National Recycling Week, we thought it would be a great time to educate people on the impacts the fashion industry has on our environment, along with the social impacts it causes.   Fast fashion is a

  Recently, the inaugural First Nations Children’s Festival was held at the Seville Mercy Conference Centre in Cairns welcoming children to country in a traditional ceremony and fun filled festival. The first ever tri-nation naming ceremony was also held at the event and the coming together of the tri-nations for the first time in close

  The past few months have been a time of great joy and celebration for the Institute with Sisters of Mercy, Doreen Mainick RSM and Janet Andrew RSM  making their final profession of vows and Emma Llewellyn RSM, as a newer member, renewing her vows for a further three years.   Doreen made her perpetual

  For the past ten years I have been teaching English to Refugees and Asylum Seekers at the Edmund Rice Centre at Mirrabooka at the Pre-Intermediate level and now the Intermediate level. Because we were studying Australia this month, I decided to teach them a little about poets and poetry.   I realise some people

  While many young people are preoccupied with social media spending a lot of their time worrying about how they look in their latest Instagram post, a group of young people in Adelaide and Melbourne are bucking the trend and instead focussing on how through Mercy they can make the world a better place.  

  Sister Janet Mead, who died in January this year, was recently back in the spotlight with an animated film being run as part of the Adelaide Film Festival and celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of her much loved ‘Rock Mass’. Mary-Anne Duigan RSM has written below about these two wonderful events.    The last

Bishop Michael McKenna will officiate at the reception and blessing of the new sculpture “Come Sit Awhile: Catherine in the Garden” and two images of St Mary’s College on the cloister wall, gifted to the Diocese by the Sisters of Mercy.   The Sisters of Mercy would like to invite you to the unveiling and

    ABC Journalist Hilda Wayne has explored the important relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea at a recent talk held on August 12 at the Mercy Hub organised by Cookhouses n Tanks a Lot.   Hilda Wayne, ABC broadcaster and producer, works at the ABC studios in Southbank and presents regular podcasts to