{"id":4927,"date":"2013-09-15T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2013\/09\/15\/pilgrimage-to-the-south-island-day-one-across-the-seas\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T02:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T02:55:40","slug":"pilgrimage-to-the-south-island-day-one-across-the-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2013\/09\/15\/pilgrimage-to-the-south-island-day-one-across-the-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage to the South Island: Day One: Across the Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">One book which will always have a special place in our<br \/>\nconvent library is <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Star of the South by<br \/>\nSister Mary Augustine O.P. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b>After<br \/>\nreading it in the refectory on more than one occasion, it inspired us to take a<br \/>\nvoyage this September to the South Island during our recent school holidays.<br \/>\nOur mission: to visit all the places which were once upon a time, not so long<br \/>\nago, hives of Dominican life and fruit for NZ. We wanted to re-trace the steps<br \/>\ntaken by our Holy Foundress, Mother Mary Gill O.P. who at the age of 16, left<br \/>\nthe world to eventually come to Dunedin in 1886 as the first superior and plant<br \/>\nthe first Dominican seed under the guidance of the saintly Bishop Moran. From<br \/>\nDunedin many other convents, schools, boarding schools and hostels were<br \/>\nestablished in other parts of the South Island and it was to these places that<br \/>\nwe wished to visit.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Early Monday morning, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> September, saw us all<br \/>\nlined up in a big red transit van to take the rather impressive looking ferry <b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Santa Regina<\/b> to cross the Cook Strait.<br \/>\nOur thoughts turned to what it must have been like on the voyage all those<br \/>\nyears ago for the pioneer Sisters, some of whom were very young, and who ventured<br \/>\nfrom Ireland across unknown and dangerous seas to a foreign country considered<br \/>\nto be full of cannibals. What must they have suffered? What delights must they<br \/>\nhave seen? For the nature\u2013loving Sisters it was a trip of a lifetime as many a plea<br \/>\nwas sent up to Heaven during the three and a half hour voyage to ask for<br \/>\nsomething to come out of that vast ocean \u2013 perhaps a whale, or a dolphin, or a<br \/>\ngreat white shark or an orca. God\u2019s choice &#8211; ONE PLAYFUL SEAL. But, never to be<br \/>\noutdone in generosity, He kindly acquiesced by providing us with a whole colony<br \/>\nto admire along the East Kaikoura Coast.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<object contentid=\"3d408c7d1a5cb3cd\" height=\"266\" width=\"320\"><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Safely on land again, we were directed to the Selby residence in Blenheim where we enjoyed a gourmet dinner, which gave us more than enough strength to reach Christchurch and meet Father Bochkoltz, who was to say a 7pm Mass for us and accompany us on our journey as our Chaplain. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><\/p>\n<p><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One book which will always have a special place in our convent library is Star of the South by Sister Mary Augustine O.P. &nbsp;After reading it in the refectory on more than one occasion, it inspired us to take a voyage this September to the South Island during our recent school holidays. Our mission: to &#8230; <a title=\"Pilgrimage to the South Island: Day One: Across the Seas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2013\/09\/15\/pilgrimage-to-the-south-island-day-one-across-the-seas\/\" aria-label=\"More on Pilgrimage to the South Island: Day One: Across the Seas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convent-life","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5263,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/5263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}