Mary Aikenhead’s Feast Day!
She was a brave, faith-filled, and innovative woman. Mother Mary was ahead of her time in many ways, and a woman of Gospel values in every way! With almost 30,000 staff members across the Eastern seaboard in our Health and Education Ministries, we wish all of you a very happy feast day. We hope today will …
Farewell to Janet Freeman
Janet Freeman has been a respected and valued Trustee of MAM for five and a half years. For personal reasons Janet has decided to resign as a Trustee of Mary Aikenhead Ministries (MAM) and her term ended at the close of the Mary Aikenhead Ministries Conference on 12 May. My fellow Trustees and I would …
Homily in recognition of NAIDOC week
Homily in recognition of NAIDOC week (8-15 November 2020) and Remembrance Day (11 November 2020) by Fr Darryl Mackie, Mission Integration Manager & Chaplain, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney
The Feast day of Venerable Mary Aikenhead.
Today, 22 July, is the Feast day of Venerable Mary Aikenhead… We recall Mary’s vision, passion and courage which lives on and is given expression in each and every one of you engaged in Mary Aikenhead Ministries. We have been overwhelmed by so many examples of your spirit of dedicated generosity, your flexibility and creative …
National Redress Scheme
One 20 June 2020 Mary Aikenhead Ministries (MAM) was declared as a participating group in the National Redress Scheme. The National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Declaration 2018 describes that the following Mary Aikenhead Ministries institutions (represented by the Trustees of Mary Aikenhead Ministries) are in a participating group and are therefore associates of …
Love: Responding to the needs of our times
Love: a word freely used in our society to cover a range of human emotions and actions; a powerful word which can motivate and inspire beyond even our own expectations. However, the word on its own is not enough and actions must follow. Love is one of the foundations upon which Venerable Mary Aikenhead acted …
Trustee Reflections One Year On
“It matters not what we are doing for God provided we are doing it in the best possible way.” Venerable Mary Aikenhead This saying of Mary Aikenhead often comes to mind for me. How true when I began my role as a Trustee of Mary Aikenhead Ministries in May 2019. I previously had a role …
Open Support: 30 Years of Mission in Action
Celebrating an anniversary in the midst of a pandemic can be unsettling. But it can also be truly inspiring. I believe this is the case for Open Support. Drawing on 30 years of experience, meeting the needs of our time, Open Support knew how to read the signs of these difficult times and act on …
Love Coming to Life
“Love coming to life” is how the great Sr Maryanne Confoy reflects on the work of our people all across St Vincent’s in the first episode of Compassion, Courage, Consolation: Voices for St Vincent’s During COVID-19. As I got ready to dial Sr Maryanne in from a spare room at home – a room that …