During Week 5 our Year 7 students went on an excursion into the Melbourne CBD. The students visited four sacred spaces to the Catholic tradition in Fitzroy, all within a 10-minute walk from each other. They were:
- the Ursula Frayne Chapel at one of our sister Mercy schools — Academy of Mary Immaculate
- the Mary MacKillop Heritage Centre to find out more about Australia’s first Catholic Saint
- the Saint Mary of the Cross, MacKillop Chapel at Australian Catholic University
- St Patrick’s Cathedral to explore the side garden and inside the building itself.
This experience helped the students make connections between their classroom learning about our Mercy tradition in Australia, Catholic places of worship and their own faith.
