Sisters

Monday, April 21

Discovering the call of a lifetime

In 2012, then 28-year-old Bernadette Toohey, packed her bags and uprooted her life from the western suburbs of Adelaide to join the Australian-founded group of consecrated women, the Missionaries of God’s Love, in Sydney.

From left, Sr Jill Havey, Sr Cecelia Nguyen, Linda Nguyen, Clare Haddad, Helen Steele and Natalie Cameron outside the chapel.

Historic North Adelaide college celebrates 140 years

The skills, courage and resourcefulness of a small group of Dominican nuns who arrived in Australia from England in 1883 will be honoured when St Dominic’s Priory College holds its 140th anniversary dinner this month.

Fr Dean Marin

No one is called to follow on their own

In reflecting on the Christian life in homilies over the years I’ve often said ‘no one is a Christian on their own’. It’s my way of naming how we are saved in Christ.

Faith nurtured in Adelaide blossoms in Nashville

When Sr Elena Marie Piteo OP attended World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008 it was the first time she had seen a young Sister in a habit and she was “struck by her joy”.

Call out to Dominican scholars

As the Dominican Sisters prepare to celebrate their 150 year involvement in Catholic education in South Australia, the Dominican Old Scholars Association is calling on former students to join the group.