Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

As we turn the corner on Lent - pilgrimage through the Triduum - we arrive  in the season that really marks our lives in Christ - the season of Easter.  We are Resurrection People regardless of the church calendar. I tweet.   I blame it on one of my godchildren.   On Mondays I tweet. The April 14th entry reads: # takewhatyouneed Community ~ Gathering ~ Prayer ~ Remembering ~ Fasting ~ Feasting ~ Singing ~ Alleluia ~ Joy ~~Breathe In ~ Breathe Out ~~ Every Monday it is the same hashtag with different groups of words.   This week the inspiration came easily - Holy Week.   The words emerged as I considered what I needed this week.   The hashtag invitation to others is to consider what they might need.   Some may be included in my list. And then there is always the invitation to purposefully take a breath. Try it right now. What do you need right now?   What groups of words do you need to draw from?   Don't for...

Last weekend I had an unexpected experience.  I spent the afternoon with a teacher whom I had known in high school – and I found myself looking back at those years though they were just yesterday. Memory is a tricky thing.  I have photos from those years that make me “think” I am that age again. There were lots of young people on the university campus wherever we went, though, so they were a reminder for me of how much older I am!  I find it interesting that the choices and decisions young people have today have such big price tags attached to them.  Even the decision to go to college means that many young people will begin their post-graduation years with a LOT of debt!!  Yet it is the experience is that makes it so important. In that way my teacher and I were not so different from the university students we saw all around us.  I ended up going to the same college she went to, but even then our experiences were different.  Remembering those ...