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We Are Called

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If you have read any of my previous postings, you are aware that I embarked on this journey to vowed membership with the Dominicans of Sinsinawa about 10 years ago.   Though I did not hear my name called in a dream as Samuel did, I did, no doubt, experience a beckoning to a new life excursion.   Actually, throughout my 60+ trips around the sun, there have been many invitations, God’s interventions in my life.   The most recent summons was just about as unexpected as the call to embark on this voyage of vowed relationship with the Dominicans of Sinsinawa.   I had been serving the Congregation providing administrative support for the management team in our Finance Office.   I loved what I was doing and the team of people I worked with.   This summer, however, our newly elected Prioress (president) extended a call to be her secretary.   After much prayer and discernment with trusted friends and mentors, I did recognize this as a call from God and said, “Yes.”   Yes,

Powerful Witness

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"Go into the world and proclaim the good news to every creature."  Yes, of course this is what I want to do!  But when I took a position as Pastoral Associate in a parish I wondered how I could do this; I had a lot of doubts. This was my first experience in this type of ministry.  Could I do it?  At the time I shared community with another sister, and I began to understand what pastoral ministry was just by who she was.  Her compassion toward everyone she met, generosity of heart, genuine interest in supporting me in my ministry, and joyful spirit gave me the confidence that I needed to try things I had never done before.  By sharing community life together and by being supported in ministry I found new strength and courage to take leadership of new activities and to plunge into others. I was transformed, and I truly surprised myself!  The Holy Spirit was the giver of my newly-discovered gifts, but the witness and relationship with this sister made it