Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

To me the vow means holding all things in common. I might say "my car" but it was purchased by the congregation. It does not belong to me.  I live alone so I am the only one who drives this car but if I lived with other sisters I'd be sharing my car with others. Each spring I prepare a budget for the following fiscal year. I presently have a good salary and my paycheck is payable to the Sinsinawa Dominicans and deposited in my central bank account. What I need each month to live on remains in my account. The remainder is transferred to the congregation. The congregation paid for my education. I have insurance from my place of employment and expenses not paid by insurance come from our congregation medical account. I am expected to be accountable for the budget I submitted and had approved last spring. I also know if I have unexpected expenses the congregation is there to help me.  I know I must do my part but I also know the congregation is there for me.  We hol...

January 15 th - That was the day I received the Dominican habit and became a novice in a Dominican monastery here in Trinidad many, many years ago. I only spent five and a half years there, but what a blessing they were to me! I was only beginning my journey. God had many surprises in store for me along the way. He has for all of us. How is your journey? What surprises have you experienced along the way? I am now a Dominican sister of Sinsinawa. I made profession 5years ago, and final profession 2 years ago.   Twelve years ago I did not even know of the congregation except as the group to which Sr. Glenda Rodriguez, a Trinidadian woman, belonged. I don’t think I even knew the word ‘Sinsinawa.’    Then God surprised me. Today, at our mother-house another woman - Kathy Flynn- is about to be welcomed as a candidate for our congregation.   Our God of surprises is at it again. Kathy brings her own giftedness, her own journey. So do you. Chri...