Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

In the Easter season - fifty days that are one - one day stretched out across fifty 24-hour segments - brings the church community to ponder the early church and the movement of the Holy Spirit as more and more people - Jews & Gentiles - came to believe in Jesus the Christ.   This is the time we hear readings from the Acts of the Apostles, also known as the Gospel of the Holy Spirit, at Mass. I think of this book of the bible as the story of us - the church - in our infancy.   Just like our own infancy - we don't know our earliest stories unless someone who was there tells us.   This part of scripture is very much the same.   It is our earliest accounts of the movement of the Good News and we need to hear these stories again and again.   Why?   To remember so that we, too, know how to be the church in our time.   During the Easter season - right through Pentecost - take time to slowly read and ...

I was recently jolted from my complacency about my relationship to Earth by an Easter greeting from Joy, Promoter of Peace and Justice for the Sinsinawa Dominicans.  She wrote, As the Easter Season unfolds in the month of April, this is a good time to consider how precious and fragile our Earth home is. And then she sent me the Mobilize Earth website, where I read For Earth Day 2012 we are mobilizing the planet simply to say one thing: the Earth won't wait. It seems that environmental issues have been put on the back burner as we are in the midst of a global recession. It is time for us to Mobilize the Earth™ and speak with one voice, one message. http://www.roadtorioplus20.org/mobilize_the_earth_on_april_22 How do I become part of a movement to Mobilize Earth beyond the simple personal measures that I take with along with the women with whom I live? Sure we do the ordinary things, recycle, ride our bikes to work, buy locally and seasonably, keep our ...