Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

On Labor Day I labored to create more useful spaces in my bedroom.     The box containing books “saved to read” had been covered with a colorful afghan and many items     “To read some time” were stacked on top. Now the box is gone and “the books to read”     face me with their inviting titles visible. I found out the day after Labor Day is called “National read a book day” What a great coincidence!     I am reminded that an essential element of Dominican life is STUDY. I pledge to create a sustainable study time in my day, my week, my life. Now I am studying methods of forgiveness proposed by Robert Enright. In addition, I am reading  No Future without Forgiveness  by Desmond Tutu.  Even my fun book (light reading before bed) is  All the Forgivenesses , a novel by Elizabeth Hardinger.  All this study is helping to prepare some input time for the religious leader caucus of MOSES (Madison Organizing in Strength, E...

Happy Labor Day!  No matter how old I get the Labor Day weekend always reminds me of new beginnings; the start of a new school year after the more relaxed atmosphere of summer.  As a child getting ready for the school year I always went shopping with my Aunt Marie for a new pair of school shoes and then stocked up on all the required school supplies.  Everything felt new and fresh.  No matter the failures or misfortunes of the previous school year, September offered a chance for a new beginning. God offers us this same opportunity.  No matter our screw-ups, our poor choices, we always have the opportunity to begin again.  Jesus gives us the opportunity to drink deeply of the Living Water of the Holy Spirit.  This grace helps us to discern how our personal gifts can be used to build the reign of God in our fragile world.  Two of my good friends have left home this summer to answer the call to religious life.  To what is ...