Sister Margaret celebrates jubilee

Sister Margaret Wall, the last Josephite sister to work in the Woy Woy and Umina Parish, celebrated her Golden Jubilee of Profession on January 6.

Sister Margaret was part of a group of 30 celebrating their 50 years as sisters at St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.

The chief celebrant at the Jubilee Mass was Cardinal George Pell, assisted by Archbishop Len Faulkner and Bishop Peter Ingham, who preached the homily, and 14 priests who concelebrated.

From 1922, the Sisters of St Joseph travelled daily from Gosford by train to conduct school classes in St John the Baptist Church.

A cottage was bought in Victoria Rd, Woy Woy, in the 1930s.

The cottage became known as St Joseph's Convent, with three sisters in residence.

Sister Margaret worked as a teacher in the Parish Primary School in the early 1960s.

She returned to the parish in 1991 when she was involved in bereavement ministry, and ministry to the sick and elderly in hospitals, nursing homes and in patients' homes.

The Golden Jubilee celebrations took place at the Josephite Sisters' Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel in North Sydney.

Currently Sister Margaret is a resident at the Josephite Sisters' Retirement Centre at Hunters Hill.

Press release, January 17 John Storm