How Did Mary Aikenhead Establish The Sisters Of Charity

Why did Mary Aikenhead establish the Sisters of Charity? (113 words)
Mary Aikenhead is religious, in 1801 she became catholic and went to stay with the O’Brien family in Dublin. Here she witnessed so many people that were poor .She started to get curious about helping the poor. In 1807 she shared her vision of a group of religious women committed to the service of the poor. In 1809 Mary first met Fr Daniel Murray when he visited her to work out their plans for reaching out to the poor. Fr Daniel Murray asked Mary to be become a nun and to be the leader of the sisters of charity. Mary said yes, to Fr Daniel Murray as she was concerned about the poor.
Who invited the Sisters of Charity to Australia?

Why were they invited? (102 words)
On december 31st 1838 Bishop Polding, vicar-apostolic of new holland and the archbishop of sydney asked Mary Aikenhead, to send Sisters of Charity from Ireland to Australia to help women convicts.

Five sisters volunteered and, after a long journey on the Francis Spaight, the arrived in Sydney. In January 1839 the Sisters lived at Parramatta and visited the Factories where many women convicts lived and worked for the government. The Sisters’ main concern was to care of the sick and the poor as well as the woman in jail. The sisters’ of charity were the first woman order to come to Australia.

3) Explain the work of ONE institution established by the Sister of Charity and WHY it was established. (108 words)
The educational ministries of the sisters of charity in Ireland and Australia is very significant to the work of this order of woman. Since the arrival of the sisters of charity in New South Wales the sisters of charity have been working with the education of young children. It was not until 1858 that the sisters of charity could open catholic schools for poor children. The sisters opened a hospital and a small school for all the sick and poor. Since that time the sisters have opened infant, primary and high schools across NSW ,Tasmania, Victoria, ACT, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. The sisters have opened 75

schools.

4) Caritas Christi urget nos - The Love of Christ Impels Us​ - is the motto of the Sisters of Charity.
Explain how this motto reflected in the work of Sister Dorothy Bayliss. How does her ministry with refugees link with the work of the Sisters when they first arrived in Australia? (245 words)
Sister dorothy Bayliss, a Sister of Charity, midwife and nurse, has spent fifty years working in developing countries, many of them in Africa. Often she worked as a pastoral care worker on Christmas Island, she is very helpful to these asylum seekers and refugees. This is how it all started.
Sister Dorothy Bayliss was chosen by her congregation to minister the asylum seekers and refugees on christmas island through the refugee service. The love of christ impels us is the motto of the sisters of charity as Sister Dorothy Bayliss is a part of the sisters of charity she follows this motto throughout her life as a sister. Sister Dorothy Bayliss has devoted her life to the sick and poor. as she was at christmas island her role was an ecumenical pastoral carer. Her role was to respond to the needs of the refugees and asylum seekers. As she talks to the people there she always remembers the saying of mary aikenhead ‘ how my heart trembles at the awful state of our poor people. She followed the sisters of charity motto as she helped and served the poor and she urges us to continue the work of jesus. Her ministry links with when they first arrived in australia as one of the sisters of charity came to australia was to help the woman in prison and now sister dorothy bayliss is increasing that work to christmas island and she speaks with asylum seekers and refugees.