OLSH Life - Community
Our lifestyle is simple and hospitality is important to us.
Our Constitutions encourage us to live our unity in diversity, and we have a strong tradition of living in international communities. The first sisters to arrive in Australia were 4 French and 1 Irish sister. Three of the French sisters went on to Papua New Guinea, and soon a Dutch sister arrived and helped Sr. Xavier (Irish) and Sr. Paul (French) with the work at Botany, and with the foundation of the Australian Province.
We especially recognize and value the importance of these communities in today’s world, where it is so often difficult for different peoples to get along with each other. As a parable of a new vision of the Church and of the world as network, we see our multicultural communities as a gift to the Church and to society.
Our unity is affirmed when we pray and share in the ordinary activities of life. It is a sign of the presence of Jesus, living and active among us. Fr. Chevalier said:
‘Let there be no strangers or foreigners amongst you'
