The following are examples of the social and pastoral work undertaken by individual sisters:
- Working in parishes, visiting, helping in catechetical programmes and helping parishioners develop their spiritual lives
- Administrative and secretarial support to Church organisations
- Community social work with the homeless
- Pastoral care/chaplaincy in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes and prisons
- Advocacy and support for asylum seekers and refugees
- Various justice and peace initiatives
- Spiritual direction, retreat work and guiding prayer groups
- Bereavement counselling/ bereavement support groups
- Service to people with addiction problems
- Care and support for couples where one member has Alzheimer’s disease