Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

During these days leading up to the Feast of Pentecost, I am praying the Novena to the Holy Spirit.  After His Ascension, the disciples spent time in prayer, following Jesus' command to " stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high." (Luke 24)  Please pray with me:   Come Holy Spirit, come!   Draw us into the circle of your embrace, immerse us in the ocean of your love;  Move among us to unite us, as we collaborate with others to help build  a holy and just society and Church.  Amen!  On Pentecost day, the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, and began a powerful ministry of preaching and teaching, healing people and freeing them from evil.   Our life and ministry as Dominicans of Sinsinawa flows out of the action of this same Spirit!  How might the Spirit be inviting you to collaborate with us?  Gail Jagroop, OP St. Joseph, Trinidad

I was going to write about how I think turtles relate to our experience of home with God.   But before I began, I received news that our beloved Brother Gilbert had died on the Feast of the Visitation – one of my favorites.   Gilbert lived and ministered at the Mound where he seemed to be everywhere, doing everything.   In the short time I knew him, Gilbert made me laugh and he made me think.   He made my world a better, brighter place.   I was glad to be part of his family. It’s funny but at Mass that evening, I’d been thinking about and praying for Gilbert and had decided that I’d call him when I got home, but never got the chance.  Gilbert is home with God now.  Then again, Gilbert was always at home with God.  (Here’s where the turtle comes in.)  Like the turtle, we carry our true home with us wherever we go.  We are in God and God is in us.  We’re never alone.  We always have a companion for the journey.  God is still companioning Brother Gilbert, as is his Dominican f