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

One of the special features that has already emerged from Mercy…Our Pilgrimage of Hope is a song written for our pilgrimage by Sister Helen Kearins. At a recent Zoom session with Institute staff, Helen shared her inspiration for the song. After I’ve been asked to write it, the sense of pilgrim is what came to

In early May, the Mercy Mission Formation Network (MMFN) held its annual gathering. The venue was the Seville Mercy Centre, Cairns. The MMFN has been meeting since 2009 with this year’s gathering being organised by Sisters Margaret Endicott and Ailsa Mackinnon, along with Micheal O’Sullivan and Caroline Thompson. More than 20 people attended including sisters

Members of Young Mercy Links Victoria and South Australia have recently participated in an immersion in Gariwerd/Grampians in Victoria that focused on integral ecology and the local Indigenous culture and heritage. I had the privilege of attending the Young Mercy Links Terra Leaders Immersion in Gariwerd/Grampians in Victoria recently. It was such an insightful and

Schola Fakiwi rsm, Ms Bai and Julie, all long time staff members at Mercy Secondary School Yarapos Sister Schola Fakiwi, a Sisters of Mercy in Yarapos Papua New Guinea, says that for her the principal path of Mercy is both action as well as prayer and that it is often through our small actions that

A couple of months ago, Crafted Culture, a new café located at Melbourne’s Mercy Hub, opened its doors. It is an initiative of SisterWorks, a not-for-profit social enterprise that began in 2013. It not only provides great food and coffee, it empowers the women who work there. Michelle Paterson, Business Manager for Crafted Culture Cafe and

Together we mourn one, who over his papacy, invited us always to consider those in need. His invitation to care for our common home united us, challenged us and gifted us with possibility. His final gift to us – this Jubilee Year of Hope – is a reminder that he was a man of prayer,

The Institute’s Refugee Advocacy Network has urged Australians to be ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ by voting for candidates in the upcoming election who support a humane immigration policy. They have produced a flyer and have asked people to consider distributing it to their networks, so that  awareness can be raised about the plight of refugees and people