Who are we?
Since 1892, the SSA has worked to improve the lives of women and girls in Queensland through spiritual formation, education and social activism. Today, we are rediscovering our roots in spirituality and religious community life.
Our Mission
To point the way to Jesus in our own time, to a world which has largely lost touch with spiritual realities and is caught up in despair, loneliness and fear.
Ever since it’s first inception, the Society of the Sacred Advent has been doing far more than could reasonably be expected of its numbers. The result has been a service of incalculable value to the Church of God.
— Archbishop William Wand, 1942.
Incarnational faith
Holistic Education
Compassion for those less fortunate
Adaptation to new challenges
Humility
Courageous hard work
Principles of the SSA
The Society of the Sacred Advent was founded as a Religious Order for women on the principles of strong education for girls, social justice, and prayerful engagement with God to give direction to their work in the church and in the world. The Society continues to grow on these principles as an intergenerational community, making space for all to live into their God-given vocation, with a special focus on the spirituality of women and girls.
Religious Community
The SSA continues as a mixed community of professed religious, living in community under traditional vows, and vowed members, living separately under contemporary vows
Professed Members (The Sisters)
Vowed Members
Companions (all genders, lay and ordained)
SSA Schools
The Schools of the SSA are guided by the Educational Philosophy of the Society, which informs and underpins all decisions and strategic thinking, and the Values in SSA Schools which are derived from the Sisters’ spirituality.