Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day 2025
August 7, 2025Be Calm and Full of Hope
As we mark the Jubilee year and celebrate the feast of Saint Mary MacKillop, we are invited to reflect on her enduring message: “Be calm and full of hope.” In a world yearning for peace, Mary’s life calls us to be Pilgrims of Hope, walking with faith and nurturing seeds of hope.
Who am I becoming?
As we celebrate National Vocations Awareness Week (3-10 August), Therese Carroll rsj, Convenor, Congregational Immersion & Discernment of Call, shares a poem and prayer, and an invitation to reflect on living the life we are called to live…”Who am I becoming?”
Homelessness Week 2025
August 6, 2025
Annually, Homelessness Australia hosts Homelessness Week “to build community support and government commitment to end homelessness”.
In 2025, Homelessness Week is held from Monday 4 August until Sunday 10 August, with the theme being ‘Homelessness Action Now’.
Jubilee 2025: Youth
August 1, 2025
From 28 July until 3 August, we are invited to celebrate the Jubilee of Youth, where we recognise the contribution of young people in the Church and the world. Through prayer, pilgrimage, and encounters with others, many young people are finding a renewed sense of connection to their faith, their communities, and the wider Church.
As we celebrate our young people, we asked students from three Josephite schools: Holy Spirit Catholic College Lakemba, Mount St Joseph Milperra and Mary MacKillop Catholic College Wakeley to reflect on what the Jubilee Year means to them and how they view hope in our world.
Emergency Action Needed!
July 30, 2025The algae bloom situation across southern Australia is a climate crisis.
The Josephite Laudato Si’ Action Plan Team is appealing for all supporters to sign the Toxic Algal Bloom petitions calling on Governments to take action.
Julian Tenison Woods leaves Adelaide
Father Julian Tenison Woods.
Father Julian Tenison Woods’ memoir records a dejected figure slipping out of Adelaide on the evening of 1 August 1872. Few witnessed his departure, and he left “without a word of adieu except to the Administrator of the diocese and the head Sister of St Joseph” (Tenison-Woods 1887, 102). He was carrying deep wounds, very little luggage, and even less hope that he might return soon.
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
July 28, 2025
The World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is annually commemorated on 30 July. This year the theme is: Human Trafficking is Organised Crime – End the Exploitation. It is a time to stop and remember that this evil is operating in our country as well as the whole world.
Mary MacKillop Feast Day Celebrations 2025
July 22, 2025
Mary MacKillop Place, the Sisters of Saint Joseph and Mary MacKillop Today extend a warm invitation to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop on Friday, 8 August 2025.
We look forward to welcoming everyone, including our pilgrims and supporters, to Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney.