Loreto Australia & South East Asia in Hawthorn East, Victoria | Community organisation

Loreto Australia & South East Asia

Locality: Hawthorn East, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9813 4023

Address: PO Box 4082 3123 Hawthorn East, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.loreto.org.au

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25.01.2022 This Sunday we commence a new Church year. After a challenging year, this is a time for hope, promise and joy. Each week a friend of Loreto will generate a reflective piece based on an art work or visual prompt. On this, the First Sunday in Advent, Anne Muirhead, Loreto’s Director of Mission, offers the following scaffold for reflection:... https://www.loreto.org.au//11/LoretoPrayerAdventWeekOneAM. See more

23.01.2022 We are mindful of many Loreto schools finishing up this week for the summer holidays. We honour the dedication of staff, the resilience of students and the support of family members across this challenging year. May God keep you safe across the holiday period.

22.01.2022 Enjoy the art pieces of Aussie Loreto Sisters, Deirdre Browne, Susan Daily and Libby Rogerson, at this online art show.

21.01.2022 Today and on the 30th of every month, we celebrate the shared vision of our broad Mary Ward Network by joining in prayer. Our hope is for the two branches of her institute to come together so we might strengthen our mission. Guide us, Mary Ward, as we move towards unity.

21.01.2022 Our community in Vietnam continues to thrive thanks to the dedication of our Sisters and their commitment to spreading the values and teachings of Mary Ward. Recently, the Sisters and students of St Mary's Hostel organised the delivery of food packs to the homeless. In Vinh Loc, our Sisters continue to work for the welfare of those living in the area through teaching illiterate people, visiting the elderly, and accompanying people in trouble. The work of our Sisters in Vietnam continues to bring joy and encouragement to many people. Read more here: https://www.loreto.org.au/gifts-of-seasonal-transition

20.01.2022 Join the global Mary Ward network for this terrific webinar focused on ‘The Other Marys’, exploring the life and legacy of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop and Venerable Mary Ward. Hosted by the Australian and British Embassies to the Holy See via Zoom, hear from Mary Ward leaders, Noelle Corscadden ibvm and Jane Livesey CJ, along with other prominent panelists. What a great way to end the week 8pm ADST! Join here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88184912764... Passcode: 093953

19.01.2022 Reflect on the Gospel for the First Sunday of Advent with Susan Daily ibvm and Rachel McLoughlin ibvm ...

15.01.2022 As we move to the end of a work and school year, enjoy this exploration of gratitude through the lens of our Ignatian tradition by Sarah Broscombe.

12.01.2022 Sister Margie Bourke has spent time in both rural and city ‘pueblos jovenes’ (low-income settlements) in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Lima, Peru and has now returned to Australia after six years in Gari-Uai, Timor Leste. She reflects on how the learnings, joys and challenges of intercultural living have shaped her. "I was captivated by the people’s wide-open smiles and their capacity to encourage me to use my small amount of Tetun... The happiness of families was tangible when they saw I wanted to spend time conversing with them and learn more." Read her story here: https://www.loreto.org.au/choose-life/

12.01.2022 'All around you are possibilities for doing good and making the world richer for your having lived in it.' A central focus of a Loreto education is to support each student's individual development and prepare them to be conscientious global women. In Loreto College Ballarat's VCAL program, students embrace the opportunity to explore a diverse range of skills. Read more about VCAL and how it enables students to be 'Life Ready' here: https://www.loreto.org.au/access-to-excellence/

12.01.2022 Summer at Loreto | The season for summer uniforms and holidays. These 1898 Loreto students are enjoying sport on the Paddock (now the oval) in their summer uniforms with wide brimmed hats - but also black stockings! By the 1920s summer uniforms had become slightly more comfortable, but stockings would still have been worn.

12.01.2022 Loreto Normanhurst Principal, Marina Ugonotti, welcomes Loreto school leaders from around Australia to the annual LSAC (Loreto Schools of Australia Committee) Student Leadership Conference. Unable to gather in Melbourne and Ballarat, students met online via Zoom to reflect on their new roles in the wider Mary Ward network.

11.01.2022 We mark a global day uniting to end violence against women.

09.01.2022 Leadership in an international organisation always has meant travel. This image is of Mother Teresa Gertrude O'Sullivan, who was Loreto’s Provincial, or leader, in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s, in a carriage in Port Said in April 1924. Mother Teresa Gertrude was also the first Provincial to travel by air, when she took a very early commercial flight from Melbourne to Perth in 1929. This was such a novel form of travel that it was seen as demonstrating a lack of balance and common sense by the leadership in Ireland, who probably had little appreciation of the distances and time involved in travel across Australia.

07.01.2022 The Loreto Justice Network invites you to attend the final in our webinar series for 2020. This conversation called ‘Education for Justice’ will focus on the experience of educators and our schools across our network during this unprecedented year! We will hear from some of those at the ‘chalkface’ and reflect with them on the insights gained and lessons learned for our ongoing mission as educators for justice. Participants include Samantha Jensen (DP Director of Studies at ...Loreto Toorak); Libby Parker, Director of Mission (Loreto Normanhurst) and Sheena Teeder Program Co-Ordinator for Friday Night School, a volunteer tutoring program. Please register to join the webinar on Tuesday, November 24 from 5-6pm (AEDT) by clicking the link below. All are very welcome. Register Here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aVhweygPRfiJvkr0cOZahA See more

06.01.2022 April 7th marks the start of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi peoples in Rwanda. One of the darkest chapters in our world's history in a space of just three months, more than one million people were systematically killed. Today we remember the victims and reflect on the suffering of those that survived. We pray for the ongoing justice and reconciliation processes and the ultimate restoration of a peaceful and unified Rwanda. In recent times we are seeing increased trends of int...olerance. We must renew our resolve to protect our values and confront racism, hate speech and any other discriminatory actions, to prevent their growth in our communities. Resources: Outreach Program (and photo credit): https://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/rwanda/index.shtml Preventing Genocide: https://www.un.org//preventgeno/rwanda/preventing-genocide Take Action!: https://www.un.org//preventgenoci/rwanda/take-action.shtml

06.01.2022 A Cameo from the Archives No. 8 | Mother Gonzaga Barry, an Inspiring Woman. Much loved, inspirational educationalist, Irish born Mother Gonzaga Barry came to Australia in 1875 and with a group of brave, resourceful women established convents and schools all around Australia. Read the full story here: https://www.loreto.org.au//Mother-Gonzaga-Barry-an-Inspiri

05.01.2022 May the risen Christ bring you and your family abundant happiness. Wishing all across our network a blessed Easter.

04.01.2022 Despite the many challenges of 2020, Mary Ward International Australia has continued to strive towards supporting those most in need. MWIA and Loreto Sisters in India, with your generous support, have repaired and rebuilt houses, provided food, clothing, tarpaulins, mosquito nets, and medical supplies to cyclone devastated communities in West Bengal, India. MWIA appreciates your ongoing support of those most in need. Your generosity this Christmas will make a real difference in a family’s life https://www.mwia.org.au/donate/current-appeal/

04.01.2022 This World Health Day is calling for action to eliminate health inequalities. This year's campaign strives to uphold the WHO’s constitutional principle that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition. Most specifically countries in the Western Pacific, despite recent rapid economic growth and urbanisation, have seen the ...health divide deepen. COVID-19 has undermined recent health gains, propelling more people into poverty, further amplifying social and health inequalities. The most affected peoples are often migrant workers whose dormitory settings leave them especially vulnerable to the pandemic and its devastating and far-reaching impacts. Find out more: https://www.who.int//western-pacific/world-health-day-2021 Raju's fight: https://youtu.be/55NwlPdDLoc