Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

Happy New Year!   This is always a time for resolutions – lose weight, exercise, be more disciplined in our prayer life, etc.   But it is also a time for thanking God for all the blessings of the past year.   I thank God for the sabbatical I was given by our Sinsinawa Community and also the opportunity to serve the rural people of the Owensboro diocese by providing faith formation and spiritual events for them at their local parish.    Most of all I am thankful that Sister Geri is beginning to recover from a serious back surgery she had on October 13.  It’s been a long, slow road for her and a new experience for me as a caregiver.  And yet we have not been alone on this journey.  Our Sisters in Kentucky and Tennessee have been a great support, as well as the many prayers and advice offered by our sisters across the community, especially Sister Marilyn Aiello, one of our community doctors.  What a wonderful perk of our lifestyle – we are never alone in the hard times of life because w

Like others through the centuries, I have been a pilgrim, as I have traveled in the Middle East. Pilgrims are those who make the effort go to a place they consider holy. Yet these same people may find it difficult to look around their usual place and see it as holy as well. God knows that my heart is especially with the people of the Middle East. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit that this love of people and place is in me. I must caution my human spirit to not stray into wishful thinking. Rather, if I stay awake – attentive – to this seed of care within me I will be available to witness to those in my own place to the needs of others in distant places. Where my feet land is holy to God. It is where God knows to find me. I do like to invite God to consider this place or that one for my feet to land but where they are today is where I need to be. Where do you feet land? Are your able to see it as holy? It is where God knows to find you! Roberta A. Popara, O.P. North Palm Beach, FL