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Nuns treat Good Samaritan women to Christmas lunch
The Missionaries of Charity Sisters of Mother Teresa, in the spirit of Christmas, distributed lunch and toiletries to the senior citizen women of the Good Samaritan Home in Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. The Roman Catholic nuns, with the assistance of parish priest of the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension, Fr. Michael Traher, SFM, distributed the items during lovely singing of Christmas carols on Wednesday.
The nuns and Fr. Michael Traher distributing lunch to the senior citizen women yesterday.
The nuns operate a soup kitchen which caters for the poor, homeless and needy daily at their St. John Street convent. Their presence in New Amsterdam is certainly a blessing. They have a similar home in Georgetown where senior citizen women stay and are cared for.
The Good Samaritan Home is managed by a group of the Roman Catholic Church in New Amsterdam, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Fr. Michael Traher praised the initiative of the nuns. “It’s a joy to come here, to see how welcoming they are, because a lot of times, you live in a setting like this and the days are all the same, you know, and the routine are all the same.”
“Sometimes, there are people who don’t have any family…and their families do not come,” he stated.
The priest noted that visiting senior citizens is not really a hard task these days. It does not take much effort.
“All you have to do is just be with them and talk to them—[ask them] ‘what’s going on in your life? What things have you read?”
“The most important thing is that you’re there and you have come to see them; you are still interested in them, they know you’re still interested in them. God cares…God is falling in love with us and He is inviting us to fall in love with him.”
The ladies expressed thanks to the nuns after partaking in the scrumptious lunch.
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