The Friday Mass community at St Joseph’s Church in the Newcastle suburb of The Junction invited the Sisters of St Joseph to a Mass on 23rd May to mark 100 years since the laying of the foundation stone of St Joseph’s Convent.

Many people gathered at St Therese’s Church, New Lambton to celebrate the Mass of Christian Burial for Josephite Sister Therese Connolly who had died on 11 May 2026 at Calvary St Martin de Porres Aged Care facility, Waratah.