Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

It’s mid-April.   Our long-awaited Chapter has ended.   We’ve elected new leaders.   We’ve crafted our words.   And our week of national togetherness has ended.   This is what we said: MISSION As Sinsinawa Dominican women, we are called to proclaim the Gospel through the ministry of preaching and teaching in order to participate in the building of a holy and just Church and society. VISION In a world graced by the Holy Spirit yet wounded by divisions, exploitation, and oppression, we are impelled by God’s tender mercy to commit ourselves in partnership with others to seek and foster right relationships among all of God’s people and with Earth that sustains us. DIRECTIONS FOR 2011 – 2016 Having opened our hearts to this profound time of grace and being created anew by the Fire of Love, we commit ourselves to living boldly together into the next five years. We call one another to speak courageously and risk for justice live authentically and relate transpare...

At the end of March I attended one of my Inter-Community Pre-Novitiate weekends. Going into the weekend I was apprehensive as our topic was “Art Spirituality” and I am NOT artistic. I was concerned that I would have to create a recognizable picture with watercolors or ink. Well, I did create pictures with watercolors and with ink, but our intention was not to create a certain picture…just play. After we each had eight or ten creations in front of us we looked at them and found the picture within the colors. As I listened, I could not see the images my tablemates found in their pictures, but they couldn’t see mine either. That made it all the more special.   My favorite part of the weekend was when we dialogued with one of our pictures…asking it what it wanted to share with us, what wisdom or insight. I was reminded of the importance of joy and gave myself permission to experience it once again. Krissie Koll, Candidate