Catherine's Cafe Vocation Blog

In the past two and a half months I have moved from living on my own, to investigating new ministries, and also moved back into community again.  For someone like me who likes to be in control and don’t really like transitions, this is way too much transitions.  How am I dealing with all these transitions you may ask?  Well, I am trying to live in the moment while be centered and grounded in Jesus Christ.  My prayer life helps me through everything.  However for me, it is more difficult praying in this transitional time. At present I am investigating new ministries.   A ministry is a job whose foundation is service to others.   According to Farnham et al in the book Listening Hearts - Ministry comes from the same root as minus , which mean less.   Jesus said, “For who is greater: the one who is at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at table? But I am among you as one who serves” (Lk 22:27) .   In a ministry your chief motivat...

Last month, my family had a wedding.  My nephew, the oldest son of my twin sister, was married.  It was amazing to share in this journey with my twin as she and her husband accompanied their son and his bride-to-be in this life transition.  Some of the accompaniment was financial, some sharing included plain old practical advice, but most of it involved trying to move out of the way as the young couple negotiated all that it means to start a new life together…for two to become one.  Our families are often signposts for us.  They point us to the ways God finds us and loves us.   They remind us of God’s call to mercy, to generosity, and to our vocation to be God’s presence in good times and bad.  What a gift!!! Who is a signpost of God for you today? Peggy Ryan, OP Whitefish Bay, WI