Mercy Partners acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners, the Yuggera, Turrbal, Jagera and Ugarapul People, recognising Elders past and present, on whose land we walk, work and live.
Mercy Partners aims in all of its activities to contribute to the emergence of a world where the healing, liberating, and life-giving mercy of God is experienced.
This statement of mission expresses a deep, binding value. Members of Mercy Partners discern their way forward in diverse ministries according to their shared desire for people to know the experience of God’s Mercy. And because they are partners, their relationships rely more on the formative value or friendship and collective vision than on inflexible institutional structure.
The building of partnerships cultivates a diversity of gifts and charisms, embracing lay leadership, and creatively responds to the changing needs of many ministries. Mercy Partners stands within the Church’s long history of communicating mercy in the world. Since the early days of the Church, Christians have gathered in communities of different kinds, expressing their faith in liturgy and sacrament, in friendship and service, whether in households, hospitals, prisons, schools, or church buildings…
Each Catholic community and organisation hands on (tradere/tradition) a Eucharistic way of seeing that animates its distinctive mission, activities, and place in the world.
Acknowledgement of Country
