{"id":4966,"date":"2012-07-15T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2012\/07\/15\/come-o-taste-and-see-that-the-lord-is-sweet-ps-336-9\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T02:22:19","slug":"come-o-taste-and-see-that-the-lord-is-sweet-ps-336-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2012\/07\/15\/come-o-taste-and-see-that-the-lord-is-sweet-ps-336-9\/","title":{"rendered":"COME: “O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet …\u201d (Ps 33:6-9)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe great task to proclaim God\u2019s goodness and to encourage others to return love for love and give themselves unreservedly for His service was the purpose and privilege of three sisters who embarked on plane for America – crossing the Pacific in a 14 hour journey on the Feast of St Anthony. <\/span><\/div>\n

\nA kind benefactor had once more made it possible for our Congregation to send a small group of sisters to promote religious life in general and to make our own Congregation better known in another corner of the vast continent of the US, who has been generous so far in sending us eight candidates to religious life. Three of these candidates have made temporary profession, three are novices and two are postulants.  <\/span>They represent eight of the fifty states namely: Arizona, Texas, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin, Colorado and New York!<\/span>  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few<\/b>.\u201d <\/span>(Mat 9:37)                                 <\/span> <\/span><\/span>
\nAnd what good could not be done if only we had another 42 sisters! Everywhere we went, we were met with cries of: \u201cWe need religious to teach in our schools\u201d. How happy would we be to address such a need if only we had a few sisters to spare!  <\/span>Now more than ever do we need generous souls to work for Our Lord.  <\/span>It was the Church, through the aid of religious serving as her hands and feet, who build civilisation and who now is needed once more to restore Christian Order.  <\/span>Our Lord still calls for ready volunteers \u2013 but it seems as if fewer of our youth are able to distinguish His voice from among the noise of the modern world. And so our advice to the young ladies whom we met trying to discern their call were:<\/span><\/p>\n