Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

I am responding to Peggy Ryan’s question in her recent posting.  Where have you found Easter?  Like Peggy, we are seeing the inauguration of spring in our southwest Wisconsin area.   We are finally viewing green grass, a few brave flowers, and the very beginning of wispy green on trees.   But I really found Easter in a movie I saw on Holy Saturday – Heaven Is for Real.   In the midst of our current world where the nightly news tells us of one horrific story after another, suffering without end, this was a movie filled with Easter hope.   I witnessed an average family and community experiencing the Pascal mystery.   The gradual revelation of the encounter of a four-year-old child with heaven both challenged their faith and gave them the opportunity to leave behind their fear & pain and to accept incredible peace.     Isn’t that what Jesus tells us in the Gospel stories again and again, “Fear not” and “Peace I leave with you.” ...

Spring is coming very slowly to our Midwest city in Southeast Wisconsin.  Seeing spring takes a huge act of faith right now.  These little buds are a sure sign that hope is all we need.  Hearing spring is easier because the birds obviously know more than we do.  They are making new songs everywhere.    The tomb is open and empty.  Christ is risen!!!  The newness has begun.  All we have to do is open our hearts and eyes and trust in the resurrected presence of our brother and friend, the Christ. Where are you finding Easter?  Is it in a seemingly impossible situation with a family member?  Is it in a person or place that you would have never looked for anything good to happen?  Is it in a broken-down promise?  Is it in an ending that you must face and really do not want to?    Let’s look together this year.  Let’s help each other find Easter everywhere we can.  T...