Sisters have served in the context of their Religious Consecration for 70 years, 60 years and others for 50 years. Let us join together in praising and thanking God for the gift of themselves to Him and for responding to his call each day over all these years.

Here are some of our Sisters and their stories.

Sr Veronica MaloneSr Veronica and Family

SR VERONICA MALONE - Celebrating 70 years! Being a Daughter of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart to me means being a dedicated religious person, whose whole life’s aim is to make known the love and compassion of our God through the intercessory powers of Mary. Our motto is “May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be everywhere known and loved”. The 6th January 2011 is the 70th anniversary of my Religious Profession. As I look back over my life, I feel that God has used me in propagating our motto. This has been on mission work in Papua New Guinea, teaching in several states in Australia and since retiring from teaching, carrying on our charism through Pastoral Care at Aged Care Homes. I have and am still enjoying life.

Our dear Veronica has now passed away. May she share in the glory of the God she so dearly loved!

SR MARINA O'DONNELL - Celebrating 60 years!

As a Daughter of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, inspired by our charism that the Sacred Heart of Jesus be known and loved everywhere, I have spent the last sixty years of my life working to bring the knowledge of that love to all people with whom I came in contact. After completing my teacher training at OLSH Teacher Training School, Kensington in 1951, I taught for three years in our schools in Bowral (St. Thomas Aquinas) and Toowoomba (Freneau Park). In January 1955, I went to Papua New Guinea and, for the next 52 years, I worked in Port Moresby, national capital, Central Manus, Milne Bay, East New Britain and Western Provinces, where I taught in our Primary and High Schools and lectured at our Catholic Teachers' College Yule Island. In 1956 I had also done a three months' condensed training in General Nursing and Midwifery at our hospital at Koki in Port Moresby. I then took up the medical duties at Inauaia in the Mekeo district as well as my teaching ones. I spent the last six years of my apostolate in PNG as an HIV /AIDS counsellor at Daru in the Western Province and built a "Drop-In" Centre for these unfortunate people. I returned to Australia at the beginning of 2007.

SR EILEEN KENNEDY - Celebrating 60 years!
My mission as a Daughter of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart has been lived out in Kiribati, Central Pacific, for the last fifty-six years. The first seventeen years were spent teaching in various islands. From 1971, I have been engaged in administration roles. Our motto - May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be everywhere loved - has been the driving force of all my undertakings.

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