Busted Halo Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)What is a vocation and how is it different from a career?
A vocation is the way of life that we choose in order to live out our baptismal call. Religious life is part of a vocation. A career has to do with how we go about using our gifts and talents that have been [...]
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I wanted to share a poem with you from St. Catherine of Sienna. I love her stuff.
You drew us out of your holy mind
Like a flower
Petaled with our soul’s three powers
And into each power you put the whole plant
So that they might bear fruit in your garden
Might come back to you
With the fruit [...]
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I got this whole quote from Joan Chittister:
“’My loneliness was like a letter I carried with me, and glanced at nervously, and folded and unfolded, but never read,’ Sy Safransky wrote. Lent is the silent time of the Church. Lent calls us to go down into the hollow of ourselves and wrestle with our [...]
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There is this quotation that I like from Thomas Merton and it goes like this: “When we find the truth that shapes our lives we have found more than an idea. We have found a Person.”
I think that it is both daunting and exhilarating to consider seeking the “truth that shapes our lives”. Daunting [...]
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I have to say that I love Facebook. I got a page on Facebook in order to promote vocations to religious life, but instead, I have caught up with bunches of people from my past. It’s amazing how many people are on there. There are three people who I counted as some of my closest [...]
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Here are the results of a survey I got through Vision Magazine. Vision Magazine is a publication for people who are discerning religious vocations. This survey is something they do annually. (It seems that inquiries into religious life are up.)
VISION VOCATIONMATCH.COM
Results of Annual Survey on Trends in Catholic Religious Vocations
Continued jump in interest in [...]
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I wanted to share today something neat that I learned. I never knew what people meant when they spoke about halcyon days, but I just read some thing by St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-79) that explained it to me. I read this in a book of selections from Catholic spiritual writings called “The [...]
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Well, I am back from Texas. The weather here is considerably colder, but it’s good to be home nonetheless. I think that the trip was definitely worth it. The students from Rockhurst University did a great job and Srs. Guillermina, Zita, Therese, and I were and are all very grateful. Sr. Guillermina and I flew [...]
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I am writing to you from San Benito, Texas, about an hour from the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican border. As I mentioned before, I came here with five students from Rockhurst University to do a service trip. We are at La Posada (our mission to persons seeking asylum in the United States) [...]
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Well, this is me at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, standing in front of my table. I have to say that it was certainly the biggest event I have attended, as far as conventions go.
Because I was there alone, I was not able to leave my table much to go to the workshops, [...]
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