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About the book
The Book of Proverbs asks : ‘who can find a valiant woman?’ (Proverbs 31:10). The text goes on to describe a woman who displays endurance, courage resilience and daring. Are not thesee the characteristics that Queenslanders have recognised in their own home grown Sisters of Perpetual Adoration? Always a relatively small group, and despite what might be judged as overwhelming odds, these women achieved the seemingly impossible. People might judge that it was through sheer persistence and hard work that they succeeded. But there is only one source from which such energy can be found, and that is Love. Eucharist, the Sacrament of Love, tells us of life given, love poured out for the life of the other. This is what the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration learned as they spent hours each day in the company of the Sacrament of Love and then took that Love to others in thee nitty-gritty of life’s realities. It is what we, too, can learn, as we enter into the story of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.
About the Author
Mary Cresp MTS is a Sister of St Joseph, born in Berri in the Riverland of South Australia. Church ministry has involved her in education, parish work, ecumenical dialogue, spiritual direction and staff formation. She has held a umber of leadership and executive positions including Congregational Leader (the Sisters of St Joseph and the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration) and Executive Director of the Conference of of Australian Religious. She has written extensively on spirituality, history, and Religious Life. Books include Choosing Life (co-authored 2001), In The Spirit of Joseph (2005), Villa Maria (2009), Prayer Chats with Julian (2010), In Her Footsteps (2012), God’s Good Time: Sisters of St Joseph in Ministry with Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (2013), Journeying with Joseph (edited 2012) and Evolution of a Movement: Josephite Associates to Josephite Companions 1979-2019 (2022).
