View online | Forward to a friend ISSUE 9 Welcome...TO OUR OCTOBER E-NEWSLETTER Such a lot has happened in the Congregation during the past two months. The Congregational Gathering took place at St Joseph's Retreat Centre in Sydney's Baulkham Hills - an ideal place to consider the Chapter mandates from 2014 and the role of consecrated, apostolic women into the future. Two of our Sisters - Annette Cunliffe and Colleen Jackson - have been to conferences in Rome which have focussed on child protection and human trafficking. Sister Sesarina Bau has retired from her decades-long ministry at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. In this edition of Walking With Us, St Vincent's Curran Foundation Chairman of Trustees, Charles Curran, salutes Sr Ses for the mark she has left on the hospital, staff, and patients. Members of the Archives staff have been sleuthing around again, and found a fascinating link with an historic wreck off Western Australia. And, of course, there is another installment in our regular series on Ignatian Spirituality, the spirituality which has informed the charism and the Sisters of Charity for more than 200 years. Since the time of the pioneer Sisters, around 1,200 women have ministered as Sisters of Charity of Australia - many of them not celebrated, nor feted. No matter - they were all valuable in themselves Now, there are 119.with same love and spirit of Mary Aikenhead And still the Sisters of Charity serve: Their ministries extend now from Darwin to Hobart as they continue to care for the poor, the excluded, the vulnerable, and the marginalised, reading the signs of the times and meeting needs. Join Congregational Leader, Sr Clare Nolan, who in this video invites you to Walk With Us as the Sisters continue to live today their charism of service of the poor, ensuring the love, tenderness, and concern of Christ
is shared with all... Sr Colleen Jackson: Shocked by the scale of human trafficking disaster Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) has just been defunded by the Federal government. As Sr Colleen Jackson discovered during a recent meeting in the Vatican, there has never been more need for the organisation. Sr Annette Cunliffe in Rome for child protection conference Eighty delegates from some 20 countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania met last month to discuss how to better safeguard children and assist survivors of abuse. A tribute to Sr Sesarina Bau after her ministry of compassion ends Charles Curran AC, Chairman of Trustees of St Vincent's Curran Foundation, pays tribute to Sr Seasarina Bau rsc on her retirement. Smile! The Congregational Gathering captured Some 66 Sisters of Charity of Australia met in Sydney recently, and our photographer was there, ready to shoot. Archives sleuths on the hunt again means a windfall for WA museum A curious object in the Archives of the Sisters of Charity of Australia has been returned to Western Australia. Ignatius and the spiritual exercises - how you can participate What are the Spiritual Exercises and how can they guide someone to a deep and lasting conversion towards God in Christ? Vocation: Sr Carmel Coyle celebrates her diamond jubilee Sixty years after she was professed, Sr Carmel looks back on her years as a Sister of Charity and reflects on her life's vocation.
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