Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

I’ve struggled with what to write about this month.  I’ve been struggling with news that has come to us nationally and with news that we are living locally.  I’ve struggled with what it really means to live authentically.  How do I speak my truth while allowing others to speak theirs – especially when those truths so diametrically oppose each other? How to speak truth to power? When must the fruit of conscience be action? Why is it that I know I’m a beloved child of God, but sometimes forget to allow others that same heritage? What is God asking of me? Of us? While I love our Direction Statement, I’m continually drawn to our Vision: In a world graced by the Holy Spirit and 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. What a beau...

What is the longing in my heart to be with others, to have friends, to find a soul mate? We are made in the image of God. God is Trinity, a community of persons whose love spills over to create all of us. Where have you found community?-- In your family of origin, in your sorority, in a friend group?   Community life is essential to Dominicans. One of the psalms of night prayer,  Psalm 132 says,  "How good and pleasant it is for sisters to dwell in unity."  And yet friends don't always agree; marriages have to work at lasting; community life is not always pleasant.  I am spending the weekend with a working group of the Sinsinawa Dominicans, The Antiracism Transformation Team.  The longer we have worked together the more we have come to know and love one another, but we also disagree vociferously.  Working to make a pathway for racial justice is challenging. At the end of the day after all of the differ...