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A bi-monthly newsletter from Loreto Australia & South East Asia
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March 2019
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Dear Friends,
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Welcome to the first edition of the Loreto Networker for 2019! As I write Loreto Australia and South East Asia concludes a fortnight of rich and full meetings: the Loreto Ministries’ Board, Loreto Justice Network, Province Council and Community Leaders’ meetings to name a few. Across the early part of this year we have also welcomed to our ‘circle of friends’ new board members, school staff, students and parents, a new Executive Director for Loreto Vietnam, Mr Dung Viet Nguyen, and commissioned Ms Marina Ugonotti as the new Principal at Loreto Normanhurst. We are truly blessed in the diversity of friends engaged in the Loreto enterprise across Australia, Timor-Leste, Vietnam and the Philippines in Province projects, the work of Loreto Ministries, Mary Ward International and Loreto Vietnam. When I consider the human experience impacted positively by our Sisters and
colleagues I am truly humbled and grateful.
These have been challenging days for the Catholic church in Australia and a most distressing climate for those impacted by abuse scandals in our church. Loreto Australia and South East Asia affirms its mission to work for healing and justice in our land and church.
March is dotted with the beginning of Lent, celebration of International Women’s Day, Loreto Schools Australia Leadership Teams’ Conference and the IBVM Extended Leadership Team Meeting in Nairobi. These experiences provide a purposeful framework for rich reflection on our heritage, current reality and future ministry on an individual level, but also corporate discernment at the level of Community, School, Province and Generalate. Snapshots of these events are regularly posted on our Loreto Australia and South East Asia Facebook page for your perusal.
The aim of Loreto Networker is to develop connections across the broad web of our land and region; to keep you abreast of people, projects and Province priorities. In the Loreto Schools Year of Sincerity, the Networker also affirms and challenges us to be who we appear and appear such as we are as disciples of Jesus and members of a graced cohort inspired by ‘that indomitable woman’, Mary Ward. I ask for your prayers as the Loreto network continues to deepen and develop across 2019. Thank you for your continued interest, support and encouragement.
Wendy Hildebrand ibvm
Province Leader
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Leading with Integrity
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Across 2019 Loreto schools are immersing themselves ever more deeply in an understanding of the Mary Ward quality, sincerity. This spiritual lodestone was the centrepiece of Loreto Schools Australia’s Leadership Teams Conference in Ballarat...
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Commissioning & Commitment
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When a new leader assumes responsibility, an organisation is provided with the opportunity to reflect on the core of its mission and to celebrate its distinctive nature. This was particularly evident at the commissioning of the 26th Principal of Loreto Normanhurst...
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UN: Youth Empowered!
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Our IBVM Youth Representative Greta Hunt shares her insights into leading a Youth-Led Event which took place during the 57th Commission for Social Development at the United Nations Headquarters earlier this month...
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Loreto Justice Network
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The Province Council reconvened the Loreto Justice Network toward the end of 2018 to co-ordinate justice responses across our Loreto communities and schools. Comprising Loreto Sisters and school staff...
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Loreto Sister Honoured
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Earlier this month Loreto Sister Orla Treacy was awarded the prestigious International Women of Courage Award in the United States by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and First Lady Melania Trump for her tireless work in war ravaged South Sudan...
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Mary Ward: Public Lectures
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Dr Elaine McDonald is the Head of Policy and Practice at Dublin City University and a great proponent of the vision of Mary Ward and the educational legacy of the Loreto Sisters. Elaine is undertaking a speaking tour of Australia across July/August 2019...
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Mary Ward Grants
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Find out more about the 2019 Mary Ward Grant Recipients.
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