COMPASSION JUSTICE RESPECT HOPE
Those with compassion enter into another’s experience and are moved to respond. They engage with poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged people of our world.
COMPASSION JUSTICE RESPECT HOPE
Those who are just live and promote right relationships with God, self, neighbour and creation.
COMPASSION JUSTICE RESPECT HOPE
Those with respect honour the integrity and diversity of creation.
COMPASSION JUSTICE RESPECT HOPE
Those with hope live the resurrection story trusting the transforming power of God.

Welcome

The Mission of Mercy Partners is to contribute to the emergence of a world where the healing, liberating and life-giving mercy of God is experienced.

The Sisters of Mercy Congregations of Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton and Brisbane are the sponsors for a large range of ministries that include hospitals, aged care, schools and community services.

For some years now they have been considering future sponsorship of their ministries and what might be a suitable structure for it. They agreed to work together to found Mercy Partners and took a formal application for its establishment to Rome in September 2008. Their reasons for doing so included:

• The significance they attach to their current ministries,
• Their strong convictions regarding the call of lay people to ministry leadership at all levels and
• The diminishment they are experiencing in terms of numbers but also in that they now have many fewer Sisters able and willing to take sponsorship responsibility on leadership teams and Boards than was once the case.

The principal responsibilites of Mercy Partners:

The primary responsibility of Mercy Partners will be to ensure that each of its ministries acts in accordance with its status as a Church sponsored ministry. To this end, it will have certain powers reserved to it, and these will be spelled out in the Constitution of each ministry.