TITLE: Marist Laity Australia - Simplicity, Flexibility, Inclusiveness












Mary and Son

Profiles

 

Margret Walker
I was born in Sydney, the eldest of five children. We had wonderful parents and a large extended family noted for their humour and love of music.

Alice Farrell
My first contact with the Marist family was as a small child of about seven when I began school at Marist College Woolwich. The Sisters in their airforce blue habits made a surprising and pleasant impression on me as I had only every seen nuns in black and white habits before.

Denise Vella
It seems that all my life my beautiful Mother Mary has been beside me every day and in every way.

Audrey Bran
Devotion to Mary was a significant part of family, parish and school life.

Sr Suporna Rozario smsm
My name is Suporna Bernadette Rozario. I am from Bangladesh. I am the second child of five children. My parents are still living. I was born and brought up in a Catholic family.

Joan McBride's sm
Has been a professed member of the Marist Sisters Congregation for the past fifty-five years.

Jina Mulligan
Group Leader St Patrick's Marist Laity Church Hill, Sydney

Andrew
I am a secondary teacher.

Br Ray Arthur, fms
I was born in Sydney on 19 January 1949 and received my early education at St Michael's Lane Cove....

Sr Marie Berise Nash, sm
Marist Laity Mentor

Val Norris
I was born in Northumberland, England and Migrated to Australia with my family....

Margaret Smyth
I am a member of the parish of St Scholastica's, Bennettswood Melbourne...

Michael Young sm
Michael was born Hong Kong in 1957. His family immigrated to Wellington, New Zealand...

Barbara Ashwell
I was born in Bluff, New Zealand where I spent the first 18 years of my life and was educated by the Dominican Sisters.

Maria Baden
I belong to a wonderful, loving family. My Mum and Dad migrated from Europe after WW11 to make their home in Australia....

Sr Gail Reneker, sm
I was born in Sydney and have lived most of my life here except for some years living in rural NSW as a child....

Cathy Larkin
My name is Cathy Larkin. I used to be Cathy Phelan until that change-your-life-experience (a.k.a. marriage) intervened in 1991 but that's a later story...

Father Patrick Kervin sm
Father Patrick Kervin, sm was born in Arncliffe, Sydney and educated at Kogarah Marist...



Marist Laity Conference April 2008 part2

Marist Laity Conference April 2008 part2



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