Category Archive: News and Events

Good Samaritan Education launches new statement

Finding just the right words to name and claim one’s identity and articulate who one professes to be, while simultaneously on the path of becoming, requires a process of deep...

Posted on: November 15, 2022

Award recognises Sr Catherine Slattery's contribution to Catholic education

Good Samaritan Sister and educator, Catherine Slattery, has been awarded the Brother Kelvin Canavan Catholic School Leadership Award for 2022 in recognition of her “prophetic leadership” across Good Samaritan Education...

Posted on: October 17, 2022

Good Samaritan community in Bacolod launches eco-restoration project

The Good Samaritan community in Bacolod, the Philippines, has come together to launch an eco-restoration project at a public park in a bid to foster the local ecology and create...

Posted on: October 17, 2022

ACU names lecture theatre after Aunty Joan Hendriks

One of Queensland’s most respected advocates for the rights of Indigenous Australians, the late Aunty Joan Hendriks, has had a lecture theatre named in her honour two years after her...

Posted on: October 17, 2022

Return visit to Timor Leste sees scholarship students shine

Seventeen more young people who are part of the Good Samaritan Railaco Scholarship Program have graduated from tertiary studies in Timor Leste over the past two years, despite practical challenges...

Posted on: September 19, 2022

The Good Oil recognised for online publishing excellence

The annual conference of the Australasian Catholic Press Association (ACPA) took place last month when more than 60 Catholic editors and people working in church communications came together in Melbourne....

Posted on: September 19, 2022

Following the path of the Good Samaritan

Lourdes Hill College aims to instil in each student the value of walking the path of the Good Samaritan and the 2022 College Captains, Ella Raymond and Ella Stone, have...

Posted on: September 19, 2022

Call for inspiring stories that illuminate our values

To prepare for our Chapter Gathering in July next year we have begun the process of telling and collecting our stories of Sisters who have meant something to us over...

Posted on: September 6, 2022

Good Samaritan Oblates seek a deeper experience of God and community

Two Queensland women made their commitment as Good Samaritan Oblates this month, after both were drawn to deepen their ties with the Good Samaritan community in prayer, outreach and companionship....

Posted on: August 16, 2022

Listening, Being, Transforming: Co-creators in Christ

Good Samaritan Education hosted its Triennial Conference at Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney on 23-24 July. The joyful gathering of more than 150 people included Board Directors, Company Members,...

Posted on: August 16, 2022

Call to Chapter heralds a time of prayerful discernment for Good Sams

Good Samaritan communities in Australia, the Philippines, Kiribati and Japan gathered in prayer recently for the Call to Chapter, the beginning of a 12-month process of discernment leading to next...

Posted on: July 19, 2022

Good Samaritan community commits to Laudato Si’ Action Goals

The Sisters of the Good Samaritan have launched their seven Laudato Si’ Action Goals, designed to help them turn their long-time commitment to caring for creation into day-to-day practical actions...

Posted on: July 19, 2022