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  1. Presentation Sisters follow Nano Nagle's inspiration in Papua New Guinea

    After some years of being missionaries in Papua New Guinea, or PNG, the Society of Australian Congregations of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary decided to help form an Indigenous group to carry on the vision and mission of their Irish foundress, Nano Nagle. After 20 years, it was time to hand over the mission to the new sisters.

  2. Who We Are

    This new Congregation established by Papal Decree is the Union of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - also known as Presentation Sisters Union. Over time other autonomous units in Europe and North America fused with the Union. The congregations in Australia and Papua New Guinea formed a Society and other congregations in ...

  3. Our story

    The Presentation Sisters in Papua New Guinea . The first Presentation Sisters arrived in Papua New Guinea in 1966. Those Sisters - Veronica (Philippine) Fitzgerald, Patricia (Damian) Mc Neil, Louis McCrone, Clare (Tarsisius) Williams and Carmel (Joan) Boyle had volunteered to be part of the Australian Presentation Society's educational and pastoral outreach in support of its Papua New ...

  4. Presentation Sisters

    By the end of the year, the sisters were giving religious instruction to 200 children all over the island. In 1962 a request was made by the Franciscan missionaries to make a foundation in the Aitape Vicariate, Papua New Guinea. In 1988 the Presentation Sisters requested to minister on Flinders Island and Cape Barren Island.

  5. International Congregation

    Presentation Sisters in Australia and Papua New Guinea are united in a Society. Learn more about those sisters and their works by visiting the link below. ... You can contribute to the mission of the US Province of the Sisters of the Presentation in a variety of ways including prayer, volunteering or financial contributions. Donate Today ...

  6. Presentation Sisters follow Nano Nagle's inspiration in Papua New Guinea

    The Presentation Sisters of Papua New Guinea (Courtesy of Anne Lane) The reasons for the foundation of new religious congregations are always interesting. Sometimes congregations want to incorporate the new group into the existing congregation; or they prefer to encourage Indigenous women to form a new group to promote religious life and ...

  7. PDF Society of Presentation Sisters in Australia and Papua New Guinea

    actions, the most far-reaching being a Mission in Ningil, Papua New Guinea in 1968. As Presentation Sisters we are called to encounter God in the heart of the world and to continue the mission of Jesus in the spirit of our Foundress. Like Nano, we are called to keep our hearts open to the voices of those who are poor and oppressed, voices which

  8. Join the Conversation

    over the mission to the new sisters. That was when Sr. Joyce Meyer asked me, as leader of the Society of Presentation Sisters of Australia and Papua New Guinea, to tell this story. In January 2019, 25 years after the first Melanesian woman joined the mission community of the Presentation Sisters of Australia, the Papua New Guinea group —

  9. PDF Presentation Sisters

    With other Congregations in Australian Presentation Society, they support their Sisters in Papua New Guinea, whose ministries are teaching, nursing and pastoral ministry, and with an evolving focus on the elimination of gender-based violence. Places of ministry In NSW: Wagga Wagga, Hay, Young, Berrigan, Ganmain, Lockhart, Five Dock,

  10. Presentation Sisters in Papua New Guinea 1966-2006

    This account, based largely on the letters, local annals and diaries of the Sisters, tells their day-to-day stories and adventures. Life was never dull. Keywords: Pacific History; Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Religious Structures and Rituals; Papua New Guinea: ISBN: 9780980314786: Research Group: School of Theology ...

  11. Who we are

    Who we are We are a global association The International Presentation Association (IPA) is an association of religious sisters and Presentation People. It was founded in 1988 as a global advocacy association to continue the work of our founder, Venerable Nano Nagle, into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Our Executive Director is Ann Marie Quinn…

  12. Anne Lane

    Anne Lane is a Presentation Sister of the Wagga Wagga Congregation in Australia. Anne worked in education and youth work early in her religious life. She has spent two terms as congregation leader. Currently Anne is president of the Society of Presentation Sisters of Australia and Papua New Guinea. She also works with other congregations as a ...

  13. What We Do

    The International Presentation Association is comprised of the Presentation Sisters Union, the Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America and the Presentation Society of Australia and Papua New Guinea. We are governed by the IPA Assembly, our policy-making body, which meets every five years.

  14. Presentation Sisters : Papua New Guinea, 1966-2006 / M.R. MacGinley

    Presentation Sisters : Papua New Guinea, 1966-2006 / M.R. MacGinley. Request Order a copy. Bib ID: 4312637 Format: Book Author: MacGinley, M. R. (Mary Rosa), 1931- ... in Papua-New Guinea"--Publisher. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject: Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary -- Papua New Guinea ...

  15. PDF The perils of transportation for the Presentation Sisters in Papua New

    the Presentation Sisters in Papua New Guinea for 25 years, speaks of the difficulties of transportation in the region: ^There is no air link between Wewak and Aitape so most people travel ... Bridges in Papua New Guinea are an interesting phenomenon. Some shake in their foundations, others have all the sleepers removed for firewood in the ...

  16. PDF Presentation Sisters

    In 1966 this Society began a mission to Papua New Guinea. In 2014 the following ministries were entrusted to Kildare Ministries: Star of the Sea College; Wellsprings for Women; Presentation Family Centre. ... Presentation Sisters were embodying anew the commitment of their Irish founder, Nano Nagle, who, in í ó ò9, wrote ^If I could ...

  17. Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea

    The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, ... Presentation Sisters: Papua New Guinea, 1966-2006. Triple D Books, Wagga Wagga 2008, 251 p. ... Sent by the Word. 100 years of service by Divine Word Missionaries (1896-1996) and Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit (1899-1999) on Mainland New Guinea, ...

  18. Presentation Society

    Presentation Society. And love shall be your lantern flame. Raphael Consedine pbvm. As Presentation People, we are called to continue God's mission in the spirit of Nano Nagle. We speak and act for justice and respond with compassion wherever we are.

  19. The Presentation Sisters

    The Society of Australian Congregations of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM) is a federation of six autonomous Presentation Congregations in Australia and a group of Australian and Melanesian Presentation Sisters in Papua New Guinea. Presentation Sisters are called to encounter God in the heart of the world and to continue the ...

  20. Wagga Wagga

    The Presentation Sisters of Wagga Wagga have a rich history, dating back to their arrival in 1874. ... to other parts of New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and even Papua New Guinea. Responding to invitations from parish priests and bishops to open or take over schools, and as a result of ...

  21. Western Australia

    Western Australia witnessed the establishment of the Presentation Sisters through two distinct founding stories in 1891 and 1900. These narratives predated the union of the Geraldton and Perth congregations in 1969, which marked a significant milestone for the Sisters. ... including Papua New Guinea, Thailand. In Western Australia, the Sisters ...

  22. Text of The Presentation Sisters in Papua New

    www.presentationsociety.org.au The Presentation Sisters in Papua New Guinea Aitape Malol The PNG Story The first Presentation Sisters arrived in Pa- pua New Guinea in 1966, a hundred years after the first group of Presentation Sisters arrived in Australia at Richmond, Tasmania. The first five Sisters went to the village of Ningil in the Torricelli Mountains in the Saundaun Province to teach in ...

  23. Tasmania

    The Sisters also worked in our Society Mission in Ningil in Papua New Guinea and with the Union of Presentation Sisters in Pakistan. They operated a House of Prayer in Blackmans Bay and provided pastoral support to the community of the Tasman Peninsula after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996.