The Convent Bakery at the Abbotsford Convent is preparing for Good Shepherd's 150th Festival Day on Saturday June 22 2013. They will be baking cakes and special Shepherd's Pies to mark this historic event. Also providing entertainment at the Festival Day will be musicians Song Rise who will be performing outside the Convent Bakery.
Melbourne musician May Lyon has created an anthem for Good Shepherd Sisters to mark the 150th anniversary of the Sisters arrival in Australia. May's anthem, The Good Shepherd, will be performed by the Melbourne Women's Choir on Friday 21 June at the Good Shepherd Chapel, as part of the opening of the Good Shepherd Festival which continues on Saturday 22 June.
Good Shepherd Sister Mary Carroll is one of the Good Shepherd Sisters who will be leading free guided tours around the Convent as part of the Good Shepherd Festival on Saturday 22 June 2013.
When Sharon Davis received the Vice Chancellor’s Medal for attaining the highest grade average for any student on the Broome and Fremantle Campuses, she might have rested on her laurels. Instead, her vocation for teaching has led to academic achievements far greater than she could have imagined.
Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand's new Mission Leader, Trish Carroll, reflects on the organisation's mission 150 years after the first four Sisters arrived in Australia.
Brave and radical is how Rebecca Louise describes the woman who began the Good Shepherd Sisters in France in 1835. Rebecca began researching Saint Mary Euphrasia soon after taking on the job as volunteer curator of Good Shepherd’s 150th Celebrations Exhibition to be staged as part of a day-long program of festivities on Saturday June 22.
If someone had told Noelene White, when she joined the Good Shepherd Sisters forty-two years ago, that she would end up doing pastoral work on the streets of Sydney's infamous Kings Cross, she might well have fled out of the Abbotsford convent gates.
Big “0” birthdays are usually seen as marking a significant step into a new stage of our lives. So it is, that at Good Shepherd, we approach the 150th anniversary of our time in Australia as an important moment in our history. Province Leader Sr Anne Manning sees it as a time for looking back and a time for looking forward to whatever lies ahead.
It's 150 years since the first four Good Shepherd Sisters arrived in Melbourne. A weekend of celebrations begins on June 21 with a Celebration of music and words at the beautifully restored Good Shepherd Chapel in Abbotsford and continues on Saturday June 22 with a Festival at the Abbotsford Convent. Join these wonderful celebrations.
Good Shepherd volunteer Yvette Gonzalez has helped people in the Good Shepherd network understand the day to day plight of asylum seekers living in the community. She has also provided a way for people to help.
Ebony Hill has pedigree when it comes to political and social activism. She grew up in Broome surrounded by women who have been instrumental in shaping their communities and bringing important cultural issues to the world stage. Ebony has plans of her own and there is little doubt she will continue the family tradition.
Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand is delighted to be taking a lead role in developing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) for the Good Shepherd network.
This week as we mark International Women's Day, Rhonda Cumberland, CEO of Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand, reflects on the Australian Parliament's passing of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking) Act 2012, which outlaws forced marriage in this country.
The Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart celebrated Mass at the Good Shepherd Chapel in Abbotsford on May 29 2012; the first Mass in the Chapel for almost three years, during which time the 141 year old building underwent a massive restoration.
Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service in Victoria is currently raising money to support women and their children recovering from family violence. Funds raised in the Refuge Refit Appeal 2012 will be used to refurbish three family violence refuges to create warm and welcoming sanctuaries for women and children to stay safe and begin rebuilding their lives. You can help give these women and children by supporting Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service's Appeal.
Plans to create a position of a National Children’s Commissioner have been welcomed by Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand. CEO Dr Rhonda Cumberland, said the organisation, which focuses particularly on disadvantaged young women and girls across the country, had long campaigned for the position to be created.
Luana Siaosi has made history in Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand by being the first person to participate in an international immersion in a Good Shepherd program overseas— thanks to the Board and management of Rosemount Youth and Family Services.
As a young girl Carmel McFaull dreamt of the day when she would be married and her brood of nine or ten children would be gathered around her in a house full of laughter and love. Save for the husband, life turned out as she wanted, though never in the way she intended.
Sr Jo Mathysen first fell in love with the grounds surrounding the Abbotsford Convent when she joined the Good Shepherd Sisters almost 50 years ago.
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