Her parents’ names are Alexander and Flora Mackillop. She was the eldest of 8 children. Range of being born from 1842 to 1857. The forth child died at 11 months old, and Mary was heartbroken with is passing. Mary was educated at private schools but chiefly by her father who had studied for the priesthood at Rome. When Mary was sixteen she found herself a job and worked as a clerk for Sands and Kenny stationers in Melbourne. During her two years there she was awarded much responsibility. Currently, her and her brother John were supporting her mum and 5 younger siblings. To help her family Mary became in turn a shop girl, a governess, and at Portland a teacher in the Catholic Denominational School and proprieties of a small boarding school for girls.

As she grew to womanhood Mary was probably influenced by an early friend of the family, Father Patrick Geoghegan, and began to yearn for a strictly penitential form of religious life. Concluding she would have to go to Europe to execute her plan, she placed herself under the direction of Father Julian Tension-Woods who, as parish priest of Penola in South Australia sometimes visiting Melbourne and Portland, wanted to found a religious society, 'The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart'; they were to live in poverty and dedicate themselves to educating poor children. With Mary its first member and Superior the society was founded at Penola on 19 March 1866 with the approval of Bishop Laurence Sheil. By then she was spelling her surname MacKillop. The Sisterhood spread to Adelaide and other parts of South Australia and increased rapidly in membership but ran into difficulties. Tension-Woods had become director of Catholic schools and conflicted with some of the clergy over educational matters. One priest with influence over the bishop declared publicly he would ruin the director through the Sisterhood. The result was that Mary was excommunicated by Bishop Sheil on 22 September 1871 for alleged insubordination; most of the schools were closed and the Sisterhood almost disbanded. The excommunication was removed on 21 February 1872 by order of the bishop nine days before he died.

Later on Mary Mackillop died or age 67 on, 8 August 1909, in North Sydney, NSW.

Their Mission is carried out by a variety of people who recognise the particular gift that Saint Mary MacKillop shared with the worldupholding people’s dignity and educating the poor, whilst relying on the Providence of God. They work together to build upon the foundations of the community, by fostering a range of opportunities for the benefit of the people of Timor-Leste.

From that time I gave myself completely to the work, which almost every day seemed to confirm as the vocation I had so long sought, and under the direction of my good Confessor I found true peace."

Her writing reflects her focus on the children and their families, and the vision she had for them. 

The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

Biblical Criticism 
The Parable of the Good Samaritan is found in the Gospel Luke 10:27-37. Parables are stories, spoken by Jesus teaching those around him. 

World of The Text:
The Parable of the Good Samaritan is about a traveler who was going from Jerusalem to Jericho, was stripped of his clothing, beaten and left on the side of the road. First, a Priest and Levite comes by the man, but both avoid him. Then, a Samaritan who is walking by sees the man, although Samaritans and Jews commonly despised each other, the Samaritan still helped the injured man. The author may have written this story to prove that anyone can prove to be neighbours, and that compassion has no boundaries. 

World Behind The Text:
This Parable was set on the road that the traveller was walking on from Jerusalem to Jericho. It would have been a more dry, dirt and rocky landscape. In Jewish culture, contact with a dead body was implied to be degrading. Priests were especially commanded to avoid uncleanness. Therefore, the Levite and Priest could have assumed that the injured traveller was dead and avoided him to keep themselves ritually clean. 

World In Front of The Text:
The author wrote this story to show that anyone can prove to be neighbours. Compassion has no boundaries and that judging people on their religion or culture is being the opposite of what Jesus told us to do. In Mark 12:31 31-32, it says '...love your neighbour as yourself...' 
Mary Mackillop represents the Good Samaritan in this Gospel story. She walked in the footsteps of Jesus Christ by making schools in order to educate children for free who were less fortunate and were unable to afford going to school. This parable may have inspired Mary Mackillop because just like the Samaritan helped the injured man despite his religion or ethnicity, Mary Mackillop wanted to help as many people as she could. She built schools to educate children, shelters, orphanages, provided shelters for the homeless, and unmarried mothers, no matter where they were from.