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Page 14 February 2010 The Southern Cross www.adelaide.catholic.org.au vocations OPEN DAY Sunday 28 February 1pm-4pm ROSTREVOR COLLEGE Explore the uniqueness www.rostrevor.sa.edu.au As young girls at St Aloysius College they used to joke about what they would be when they left school. Fifty years later Patricia Pak Poy, Mary Harvey, Kathryn Travers and Marita Mullins have just celebrated their golden jubilees as Mercy sisters or what they describe as "200 years of hard yakka". Their lives have touched many people in many different fields -- the classroom, the stage, international politics, social welfare and aged care, to name a few -- since their profession on January 16, 1960. "We all started out together and then went our different ways over the years," Sr Marita said. "But we have remained good friends and are all back here now." Sr Patricia is well known for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which led to her appointment as a member of the Order of Australia and numerous other awards. She is also involved with Hope Adelaide Inc which supports local groups working in development and in HIV/AIDS basic education in parts of Asia. She is also a member of the Human Rights Council of Australia. A graduate in Arts and Education of the University of Adelaide, she was a teacher and principal at St Aloysius College and has been involved in the leadership teams of her Congregation for 15 years. Sr Mary was a primary school teacher and principal at Mount Gambier and Adelaide schools as well as a consultant to the Catholic Education Commission in Perth. She was the Manager of the Family Centre, Port Adelaide Central Mission, a volunteer at the Otherway Centre and takes care of frail, aged sisters of Mercy. Currently she is pastoral formator in Balaklava and Hamley Bridge parishes. Sr Kathryn has been involved with the Therry Dramatic Society since 1962 through the Schools Drama Festival and had roles in various productions before being appointed Spiritual Director of the Society in 1999. Her other current ministries include pastoral family care at St Michael's College and Coordinator of volunteers taking Communion to the sick and aged in the Greenacres Walkerville parish. She spent 50 years in Catholic schools, as both a religious education co-ordinator and drama specialist. Marita Mullins joined the Sisters of Mercy following teacher training and experience in the State system, and spent the next 30 years in various Mercy Schools in the Diocese in teaching and administration. She was appointed the first Principal of Antonio Catholic School at Morphett Vale in 1975, the first school built by the Diocese following the advent of Government funding. "This was the first time a Religious applied for a job advertised in the public press," recalled Sr Marita. After periods of overseas study she was a Pastoral Associate at Elizabeth South for three years, until in 1996 she was appointed for two years to the staff of the Mercy International Centre in Dublin. On her return from the UK. in 1999, where she had also been involved in retreat work, Sr Marita took on a similar role for parish laity in Adelaide and in 2008 she began working in the Hamley Bridge/Balaklava Parishes as pastoral formator with Sr Mary Harvey. 200 years of 'hard yakka' CELEBRATION: From left: Sisters Patricia Pak Poy, Marita Mullins, Mary Harvey, Kathryn Travers celebrated their golden jubilees at a Mass at Queen of Angels Church, Thebarton, last month. F 6 F Life changing. P ( 79 9 a e ie d Street, Ade aide . D t S t hen you engage in Funera ritua , you ac now edge i e passed, give meaning to i e ived, encounter your sense o oss, and your journey o grieving. hen someone we ove dies, we touch the mystery o i e changing, not ending. Experience gained by working in Pakistan for more than 20 years is helping Columban Father Patrick McInerney to promote better relations between Christians and Muslims in Australia. Fr McInerney, who grew up in Manoora in the State's Lower North, completed his secondary schooling at Rostrevor College and seminary studies in Sydney. After his ordination at Sevenhill in 1978 he was assigned to Pakistan for more than 20 years. During this time he undertook formal studies of Arabic and Islamics in Rome, returning to Australia in 2000. Fr McInerney is now at the Columban Mission Institute in Sydney where he works in the area of Christian-Muslim relations and mission studies. Over the past four years he has researched and written a doctoral thesis entitled Modelling the Method: A Lonergan Approach to Responsibility in Interreligious Relations. The thesis was accepted by the Australian Catholic University and Fr McInerney graduated at the end of September. Promoting Christian-Muslim ties
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