Geraldine Vytilingam: A Journey of Faith, Service, and Hope

In honour of the 2025 International Women’s Day, the Missionary Sisters of Service have published an article spotlighting one of our graduands, Geraldine Vytilingam. Geraldine was the inaugural recipient of the 2023-2024 Fr John Wallis Memorial Scholarship (awarded in 2022) which she used to pursue a Masters of Theological Studies through Catholic Theological College, in Melbourne. Geraldine will graduate this Friday evening, in Melbourne.

When Geraldine read the email indicating she’d receiving the scholarship, she was overcome with emotion. ‘I dropped to the floor of the school car park and just welled up with tears,’ she says. ‘I reckon God was smiling at me, saying, “If only you knew in August what I would do in November, you’d be in awe”.’

This scholarship reaffirmed her vocation in academia and faith. She says, ‘That scholarship gave me a huge sense of purpose and direction. And it really affirmed in me that academia was my vocation. It is my vocation.’

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