Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

Selfies have become a popular way of taking photos.  Even Pope Francis poses for selfies!  Last Sunday into Monday the four of us Trini Sinsinawa sisters met as usual for our monthly meeting and, voilá, we too posed for a selfie!   But really, we met to 'take' a more important kind of selfie.  Being the start of a new year, we met to self reflect on the past year on a personal and communal level.  We let the four pillars of Dominican life guide our musings.  Our meeting was very revealing and like selfies some things we saw about ourselves, as individuals and as a community we were happy about, and some things we wished were different.   Photos don't lie.  They reflect back to us who we are, what we look like on the outside.     I was grateful that this time of self reflection, also honestly reflected back to us how we were doing on the 'inside' in the areas of prayer, study, community and ministry.  Having seen where we were, we were then able to make some

I walk down the hallway of the shelter and turn out the bathroom light. An hour later, I do it again. Two hours later, the same thing. 6-8 times a night, I turn off the bathroom light until …finally… Epiphany! A light goes on in my own head and heart… shining on the truth of a reality that to women and children living in the darkness of domestic violence... conservation simply means self-preservation, making your own light… maybe even leaving it on where you find it. As Christian women and men, we are called to be light to others… and to accept light from others… without judgment, without exception. May 2016 truly be a year of mercy compassion and love A year committed to ending violence in our world, in our country, in our neighborhoods and in our own hearts A year committed to letting our light shine… for the common good… for Peace   John 1:5 “ The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.”