Tag: "Religious vocation"

Finding Jesus in the Cake Shop
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Finding Jesus in the Cake Shop

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Christine Kapadia comes from Gujarat in western India. Just like almost 90 per cent of the 60 million inhabitants of this state, she grew up as a Hindu, in a quite common Indian family. But what was rather unusual, was the lively interest she showed as a child in God. “When my father took me […]

19-Year-Old's Dream Continued by Dominican Sisters
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19-Year-Old’s Dream Continued by Dominican Sisters

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As the sun sends red and blue hues through the stained-glass windows into a convent chapel in the Chicago area, a dozen Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Conception enter the rooom for their morning prayers. Their voices blend into invocations of praise as they chant the Liturgy of the Hours. Their white habits with black […]

Three Wrong Reasons to Become a Religious
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Three Wrong Reasons to Become a Religious

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You may think you have a religious vocation, but do you? A recent post on a Catholic social media website warned of three faulty motivations of those who were attracted to religious life. The post said that the candidate might see religious life as 1) a refuge from a hostile world, 2) an attraction to […]

A Soul's Journey: Rosalind Moss becomes Mother Miriam
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A Soul’s Journey: Rosalind Moss becomes Mother Miriam

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We are all on a journey — the journey of this life. It begins in the mystery of “not being” before we are conceived, and seems to end, humanly speaking, in the “not being” of death. From dust to dust. But faith — not precisely scientific, repeatable, experimentally verifiable knowledge, but a type of knowledge […]

Canons Offer New Way of Life for American Priests, Part Two
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Canons Offer New Way of Life for American Priests, Part Two

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If you missed Part One of this interview with the Canons Regular of St. Augustine, you can find it here . In Part Two, the Canons talk about their return to the U.S. and how you can support their mission. Q: Did you think you’d ever come back to serve a parish in the U.S?  […]

Canons Offer New Way of Life for American Priests, Part One
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Canons Offer New Way of Life for American Priests, Part One

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The Canons Regular of St. Augustine, a group of priests who live in community and serve parishes, recently landed in Long Island, New York. Their blend of community life and diocesan ministry is ancient, but a first for the U.S. The Order’s new American foundation, the Canonry of St. Leopold, offers fresh possibilities for U.S. […]

World Day of Prayer for Vocations: Think God; Trust God; Thank God!
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World Day of Prayer for Vocations: Think God; Trust God; Thank God!

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In the 1980 film Oh, God: Book II 11-year-old Tracy Richards believes that God is talking to her.  In fact, God (played by George Burns) wants Tracy to tell everybody she knows that he is real.  So she does.  She drafts a slogan and message, just two words, is conclusive and clear: THINK GOD.  She […]

The JP2 Generation Tells Its Story: Part Eight, Fr. Edward Lohse
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The JP2 Generation Tells Its Story: Part Eight, Fr. Edward Lohse

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Presented in cooperation with Greg Schlueter and JP2Journey.com: The JP2 Generation Tells Its Story, remembering World Youth Day 2002 and the impact of Pope John II. Part Eight, Fr. Edward Lohse The final day of World Youth Day 2002 began, in a manner of speaking, without our really having noticed it.   Midnight arrived, and Saturday […]