Lourdes Hill Schools Case Study

The Sisters of St Joseph is an Australian Catholic organisation. It was founded in Penola, South Australia in 1866 by Mary MacKillop and Reverend Julian E Tenison Woods. There are about 886 sisters living and ministering throughout Australia, New Zealand, East Timor, Ireland, Brazil, Scotland and Peru. The Sisters of St Joseph participate in God’s mission by serving across a wide range of ministries, to meet needs in a variety of ways. Josephites seek to “never see a need without doing something about it”.

In early 1800’s a hospital in Sydney was opened, in this time it was mainly unskilled convict women that were performing as nurses they were often described as being of poor character and drunks. The first trained nurses arrived in Sydney in 1838 they were the five Irish Sisters of Charity. The

“The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati is an apostolic Catholic community of women religious that exists to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through service and prayer in the world” (qtd. in “About the Sisters of Charity”). The Sisters are led by their mission statement to be “[u]rged by the love of Christ and in the spirit of [their] founder, Elizabeth Ann Seton, [the] Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati strive to live Gospel values. [They] choose to act justly, to build loving relationships, to share [their] resources with those in need, and to care for all creation” (qtd. in “Mission Statement”). Through this mission, they dedicate themselves to “the education of children, care of orphans, the poor and the sick” (qtd. in “Sisters of Charity Cincinnati”). These values are exemplified in numerous ways but specifically have been shown with the creation of educational institutions, orphanages, and their selflessness during the civil war.

During the European Middle Ages, the Catholic Church rose to power. When the Western Roman Empire fell, there wasn’t a grounding figure or a group for security. The people, left without a certain direction, then turned to Catholicism. The religion had its own system of morals, political influence and history. It was and still is a culture. With the amount of donations and faith in their teachings, the Church had the funds to create these large and lavish spaces for group worship and self-guided meditation.

The Sisters of Saint Joseph have had a huge impact in our community. They are a group started by Mary Mackillop an Australian Woman and Father Julian Tension Woods an English priest, on March 19th 1866. The sisters of Saint Joseph are a group of women who respond to the needs of others.

Unemployment and financial struggles grew with this increasing population. Male dominance was considered the norm so women were left with unjust opportunities for unemployment and equality in the workplace (Women's Diaries, 1997). The Golding Sisters felt it was their duty to bring peace and equality to society so established such foundations as the Women’s Organising Society. By 1900, five million women were in the labor force (Women's Diaries, 1997). The Golding Sisters worked hard to remove discrimination from society, resulting in multicultural immigrants participating freely in Church activities and masses. The Church became what 19th Century Irish bishops hoped for; a Church based on the Irish model (Dixon, 2005). Their work was often described as a ‘practical expression of the Catholic faith’ (Fawkner & Kelly, 1995). Thus, the Golding Sisters should be commemorated for their works that changed the society and church for the better by receiving the Good Christian award.

Ms. Colleen Wilson, told of her personal involvement in the restoration of the building that she once attended for school. Built in 1901, the Peteetneet Academy was

On 19 March 1866, the first Sisters of St. Joseph School had been opened in Penola in an unused stable. Within the next 4 years, Mary and the Sisters of Joseph founded 35 schools as well as orphanages, homes for the homeless and abused and a women's refuge. The Bishop and Church leaders in Adelaide were agitated with Mary and the Sisters of Joseph as they were not under their

They arrived in Sydney in 1838 and taught in local schools, and established St Vincent’s hospital. Over the next century, the Sisters of Charity established and maintained schools over Australia. In 1846, the Sisters of Mercy arrived in Perth, immediately establishing a primary school, as well as the first secondary school for girls in the whole of Australia. Over the next century, more women’s religious orders established schools. In 1855, the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition arrived in Fremantle, and a group of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd arrived in Melbourne in 1863; 1866 the first Presentation Sisters arrived in Tasmania, and the sisters of Loretta established themselves in Ballarat in 1855. Shortly after, the Society of the Sacred Heart arrived in Sydney in 1882. Soon enough, these orders spread around Australia. As these religious orders spread around Australia, they established parish schools across the nation, thus, providing a Catholic education to many, leading to the spread of Catholicism in

In 1846, the Sisters of Mercy exchanged their lives in Ireland and explored the city of Chicago while discovering immigrants’ needs for a hospitals, orphanages, and Catholic schools. Despite encountering opposition for community members the Sisters brought many firsts to Chicago.

Moutiers-Saint-Jean was founded by a hermit called John of Réôme in the fifth century in dedication to the Virgin Mary. “His sanctity drew others to him and enabled him to found a religious community dedicated to the Virgin. Such monasteries grew up in Burgundy and elsewhere from the cells of disciples clustered around the hermitage of a holy person.”1 It was the monasteries dedication to the Virgin that inspired the biblical scene on the arch of the doorway to be the Coronation of the Virgin. In the scene, Christ and Mary are enthroned in the Kingdom of Heaven. This scene was popular because rich imagery of the story was used “…in order to glorify the

Many pioneers have been influential in advancing the field of social work and one of the early influencers was Edith Abbott. According to the Social Welfare History Project, Abbott was an early social reformer born in 1876 and lived until 1957. Dr. Abbott was known as a “Social Reformer, Author, Administrator and Educator”. (Sorenson, "Abbott, Edith - Social Welfare History Project") This paper will explore the background which brought Dr. Abbott to the forefront of the early social work world by speaking about her ethnicity, family background, political affiliation, and reasons why they dedicated their lives to helping others. In addition, this paper will discuss the settings and subfields most associated with the individual,

Providence’s mission, vision, and core values are based on the faith of the founding sisters. The sisters of Providence aimed to help the poor and vulnerable and provide them with health. Despite their own hardships, the sisters worked hard to provide

General Observations: My past field placements have been in much larger schools; therefore, I was excited to have the opportunity to experience a rural setting. St. Rose is a small public school with a unique location. St. Rose is attached to the St. Rose Catholic Church. When I arrived, students were attending religion classes while teachers met in the teacher’s lounge to grade papers, make copies, and prepare for the day. Once religion classes were over, the “school day” started. I immediately obvious the students were very well-behaved; for example, students held the door open for one another and the noise level was appropriate in the hallway and classroom. Coincidentally, I attended a private school K-7th grade; for that reason, the atmosphere and behaviors observed were familiar.

Starting in the 1870s, Large numbers of women started to join organisations. They were motivated by the desire for a secure home, and to acknowledge their concern about the damage done by men, caused by alcohol abuse. Many members of these organisations either belonged to Baptist, Methodist or