We Sing Your Praise

 

We sing Your Praise

 

This past Monday, April 26, we celebrated

World Day of Prayer for Vocations. 

Religious life is a vocation, a calling, to seek

God and to serve other people in love.

It is still a viable vocation in our Church today.

One that is necessary today perhaps more than

ever before.  At least every age has its own needs.

 

St. Benedict tells us to “prefer nothing to the work

of God”.  The work of God is what St. Benedict calls

the Liturgy of the Hours.  We gather in community

to pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily.

 

True to our charism, we engage in works of hospitality,

stewardship, spirituality, respect for life, care for the

earth, and racial equality.  We life in community and care

for each other.

 

Many years ago, Sr. Colleen Winston, O.S.B., wrote a song

to accompany our slide presentation showing sisters engaged

in ministry.  Some of the words of the song as I remember it

were “We celebrate your love O God and join with ages

past to tell the story of your love and glorify Your name.  You

are my God, I sing your praise, I bless your name forever”.

For all who have gone before us, we say “thank you”!  For

those yet to come, we say “welcome”!

Sister Barbara Woeste, OSB