Category Archive: Latest News

Third Future Leaders Award for Lourdes Hill College

Lourdes Hill College Year 12 graduate Sophie Leong has been awarded the Future Leaders Future Justice Award in recognition of her commitment to service and outreach over the past year....

Posted on: January 13, 2022

Christmas a Season of Hope

The Good Samaritan Foundation brings together people and resources to support the works and initiatives of the Good Samaritan Sisters to assist the needy in communities across Australia and the Pacific....

Posted on: December 13, 2021

Revitalised common room a gathering place for Balmain community

A small group of neighbours in a Balmain public housing estate have banded together to build on the legacy left by two Sisters of the Good Samaritan by bringing back...

Posted on: December 13, 2021

Prize-winners announced in The Good Oil 2021 Writers’ Award

The Good Oil 2021 Writers’ Award was launched by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan with the dual purpose of supporting and encouraging the development of emerging and published writers....

Posted on: November 16, 2021

Partners in Ministry webinar sparks desire to help people in need

People who attended a recent webinar hosted by the Good Samaritan Foundation have responded strongly to moving first-person accounts of daily life in Good Samaritan ministries in Australia and overseas....

Posted on: November 16, 2021

Positive signs as COVID-19 continues to impact Philippines

The Sisters of the Good Samaritan in Bacolod, the Philippines, are continuing to help people in desperate need as the community battles the effects of the Delta strain of COVID-19....

Posted on: November 16, 2021

The Feast of All Benedictine Saints – 13 November

We celebrate the Feast of All Benedictine Saints in honour of all the women and men who have lived under the Rule of Saint Benedict throughout the ages.   Two...

Posted on: November 12, 2021

Good Samaritan Sisters join together in caring for community

A collaboration born of a shared name and a shared charism is bearing fruit in Uganda where a medical centre that will provide healthcare to the community is under construction....

Posted on: October 19, 2021

Catholic leaders call for action to consign fossil fuels to history

The Sisters of the Good Samaritan have joined Catholic leaders from G20 countries who have sent a letter to world leaders ahead of crucial United Nations climate meetings this month,...

Posted on: October 19, 2021

Lourdes Hill social justice project so much more than a knitted square

If you stood in Lourdes Hill College’s Soubirous Place, on the day the College launched its annual 2021 Middle School project, Blankets for Brisbane, you would have been filled with...

Posted on: October 19, 2021

Extended Plenary Council affirms ‘Good Samaritans all’

Good Samaritan Sisters, Oblates, staff and partners in mission gathered online recently for an Extended Plenary Council, to check in with the Statement of Directions from the last Chapter and...

Posted on: October 1, 2021

Stella Maris student leaders rise to the challenge

A year of leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for senior students at Stella Maris College in Manly. Three Year 12 students share their experience of developing new...

Posted on: October 1, 2021