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1. As one educated for six years at St Paul of the Cross Parish school at Dulwich Hill, I give thanks to God for not only giving us our first Australian Saint but in sheer gratitude for what the Sisters of St Joseph have done and prayed for me during my life.
   I regret that my class mate, Sister Patricia Snell RIP, is not here on eath to celebrate Mary's canonisation but she and many of my teachers from that great school will celebrate the occasion magnificently.
   Incidentally we had eight vocations from our Sixth grade class of 1945, two Sisters of St Joseph, four to the Christian brothers(one, Laurie Bent now a priest) and two priests.
   Many Sisters like Judy Sippel and Marie Biddle have been lookng after me during tertiary studies. I am grateful for that also.
   StanCusack cfc

   Posted By: Br Stan Cusack

2. It is wonderful to see new Saints, particularly Mary MacKillop. Heaven must be filled with with people who had taken the vow of Chastity. Not many married people ever make the Saint List.

   Posted By: Chris

3. If I recall correctly, Saint-elect Mary of the Cross MacKillop's birth name was not 'Mary Helen', but rather 'Maria Ellen'. [An understandable mistake if you were trying to translate back from the Latin...]
   
   

   Posted By: Fr Tim Cahill

4. Note that all the proposed new saints are 'founders'. Married lay people don't establish congregations to perpetuate them and to continue to justify the relevance of the congregation. No one bothers to preserve all grandma's letters and deposit them in the relevant Vatican archives, nor would you be encouraged to preserve grandma's house as a shrine even if you did think she was exceptionally holy.
   The grief counsellor would recommend you go into therapy should you suggest anything so absurd!

   Posted By: Cas

5. Cas: Founders of orders have an order to honour them because lay people have freely chosen to join the order.
   And don't underestimate the determination with which some families honour their holy ancestors.

   Posted By: Ronk

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