‘Happy Titular Feast to Our Monastery’

As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, so too our community in Perth celebrating our monastery’s titular feast day. Since we had just celebrated our 91 years Anniversary of our Foundation on the 28th May, and with a profound gratitude to God - through photos taken since the arrival of our foundress Sisters - we would like to share and cherish the moments of our monastery came into existence in this part of Australia in 1935 or in its early humble beginnings.

The Monastery around 1935 when it was still under construction.

Seen here (the left side) where the first chapel was, or where the nuns’ choir is at the present (after the bigger chapel was built two years later).

This was the old style of our cloister on the other side of the same building - reserved for the nuns (facing the east) - before the crucifix was installed.

Also, seen here the famous balcony that once became the “hot topic” in the newspapers about the ‘Intruders in the night’…! And that’s why the guard dogs came into the monastery too.

The interior of the first chapel.

Notice the picture of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel on the wall?.. and which is now placed in our current chapel.

Our foundress Sisters in one of the many celebrations…were having a special procession here.

The gazebo’s roof is seen on the left with the cross on top.

Seen in the background the wooden enclosure walls at that time!

Our Sisters with their apron on…besides working…say cheeessse..!

Here we see that our Sisters made the bricks themselves for the enclosure walls all around the monastery property, as you see it still standing now.

The monastery chapel of the Most Holy Trinity as it was in 1937, and the corridor passage.