Episode Transcript
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I'm Monica Molloy
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and through my mother and through her experiences
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she has brought the love of Mary MacKillop
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to me and to my family.
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It had a profound effect on our family when we actually found out.
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When mum told us all about
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her being the first border at
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Mt. St. Joseph's at Nundah.
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And in that year her father died in 1916.
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Mum was only twelve and a half at that stage
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And then later on her mother died of the black flu.
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The nuns gave her great support, an education
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and she learned a lot from
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being there with them
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and that was the legacy of Mary MacKillop.
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Mum always regarded the nuns as just up there,
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they were just wonderful to her.
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They provided the stability in this time of grief in her life.
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And also education and they really instilled a lot of
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responsibility into her
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and then she passed all of that onto,
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I mean she kept always telling us
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how wonderful the nuns were.
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Their warmth and humour and guidance
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stayed with her for life.
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That quiet strength and service that the Sisters gave to my mother
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is one of the clearest example I've known of Mary MacKillop
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and her legacy and action.
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The Sister's influence did run deeply through my mother's life
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and it shaped my own values.
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Mum was always kind and helpful
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and was always there to help anyone.
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I can remember
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where we lived at Wooloowin, you know, where she lived for 63 years,
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she spent a third of her life single, third of her life married,
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third of her life as a widow.
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Mum lived in that house for 63 years.
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And we always had visitors
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and she was always helping people out.
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And I think that was through what she had learned.
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The legacy of Mary MacKillop.
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Mary MacKillop, she was responsible for helping,
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she wasn't lofty,
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she was hands on and
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obviously a very strong woman of faith.
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And that's what I think mum was like that
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and that's what she instilled into us.
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Mum always had a relic.
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Mum always said it was a piece of her gamp,
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it was a second class relic.
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And when I was going through my treatment of cancer
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my sister gave it back to me
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and all the nuns at the convent here at Nundah,
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they were all praying for me.
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So the nuns have shown me a lot
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since we've been here in 44 years.
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We still go back up there.
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But Mary MacKillop,
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this amazing woman,
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who right back in the late 1800s,
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went out and helped children who were poor
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off the street she went through I think it was in Melbourne at first
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and then she went to South Australia.
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But she helped people that would never normally got a chance in life.
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And I think that's the group of starting
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the Sisters of St Joseph.
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She started that has been a profound effect
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and we're living the legacy now.
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Mary MacKillop
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here in Australia, being our first Australia saint was just amazing.
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And so many people were able to go and join
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back on October 2010 in Rome
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and be part of that when she was beatified
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and became our first Australia saint.
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It's wonderful we can celebrate her feast day on the 8th of August.
