Mary MacKillop Feast Day Celebrations 2024
Mary MacKillop Place, the Sisters of Saint Joseph and Mary MacKillop Today extend a warm invitation to all to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop on Thursday, 8 August 2024. We look forward to welcoming everyone, including our pilgrims and supporters, to Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney.
Celebrating St Mary MacKillop’s Feast at Josephite Centres
Some of our Josephite Spirituality Centres will be hosting celebrations for the feast of St Mary MacKillop on Thursday 8 August.
Pastoral Care at Mary MacKillop Place
In July, we pray with Pope Francis for pastoral care of the sick: Let us pray that the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick grant the Lord’s strength to those who receive it and to their loved ones, and that it may become for everyone an ever more visible sign of compassion and hope. […]
30th Anniversary of Reinterment of Mary MacKillop in the New Shrine
Mary MacKillop’s new tomb 1993. The date, 20 December 1993, is etched in my memory not only because it was my mother’s 77th birthday but also because I was witness to an exuberant outpouring of excitement, adoration and awe.
Mary MacKillop, An Example and Inspiration
I consider I have this day assisted at the deathbed of a Saint. [1] Cardinal Moran 1909 We know that a saint is someone whose life is lived in intimate union with God, and for God, accepting God’s will in all events of life. (One’s life is examined to be considered worthy by the Church […]
Mary MacKillop Feast Day Celebrations 2023
Mary MacKillop Place and the Sisters of Saint Joseph extend a warm invitation to all to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop on Tuesday, 8 August 2023. “Mary MacKillop Place is a sacred site unlike any other because Mary lived, died and is buried here,” says Sr Monica Cavanagh, Congregational […]
In the Footsteps of Mary MacKillop – Bookings for Pilgrimage Now Open
Bookings are now open for pilgrims to participate in the popular Australian National Pilgrimage: In the Footsteps of Mary MacKillop run by Mary MacKillop Place and the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart. The next pilgrimage will be running from 17 – 28 October 2023 and will visit many places associated with Mary […]
Mary MacKillop’s Canonisation Anniversary
Canonisation celebrations at Mary MacKillop Place, 2010. For the canonisation of Mary MacKillop, all roads led to Rome on 17 October 2010. For those of us in Australia, all roads led to Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney. At the time, I was blessed to be working at Mary MacKillop Place as a member of […]
Mary MacKillop Place – Out of the Ordinary
At the heart of Mary MacKillop Place located in North Sydney, New South Wales, is the Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel. The Chapel was built in 1913 in memory of Mary MacKillop and shortly after, it was dedicated by the Archbishop Michael Kelly in 1914. Mary’s body was exhumed from the Gore Hill Cemetery and reinterred […]
Mary MacKillop Feast Day Celebrations 2022
Mary MacKillop Place and the Sisters of Saint Joseph extend a warm invitation to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop on Monday, 8 August 2022. “After two years of disruption due to COVID, we look forward to welcoming pilgrims and supporters to Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney,” says Sr […]
Opening of Anderledy Lodge, Mary MacKillop Place, North Sydney
Officially opening on 11 November, was the new Anderledy Lodge at Mary MacKillop Place, North Sydney. This project began in December 2016, with the Development Application finally approved in May 2019 and the building contract signed in February 2020. Not long after, COVID-19 made its presence felt and had an impact on the progress of […]
History in the Making: Mary MacKillop Place
An 1880’s map of St Leonards by Higginbotham and Robinson identifies the future site for the first novitiate in Sydney (the original was in Adelaide, South Australia) for the Sisters of Saint Joseph in Alma Lane, North Sydney. St Leonards, later known as North Sydney, has a complex and rich history in the founding of […]