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It is a wonderful thing to honor one another’s #work! And one’s own. The #ViaTransformativa is all about our work. Our work is how we usher the #spirit into the world, into history. What is our #vocation, our #calling? Why are we here? What are we leaving behind?
Image: Jennifer Hereth, portrait of a Guatemalan woman at work, from “Women Work So Hard.” Used with permission. #RightLivelihood bit.ly/4ne7uhC

Today's poem:

Afternoon in School: The Last Lesson
- by D.H. Lawrence

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#DHLawrence #teacher #poetry #weariness #vocation #energy

Holy Orders is a sacrament of service in the Church, calling men to serve as deacons, priests, or bishops. It leaves a permanent mark on the soul and is vital for the Church's mission. Deacons serve at Mass and in the community, priests lead parishes and offer sacraments, and bishops oversee dioceses. Ordination involves a Rite where the bishop prays for the Holy Spirit's grace. Pray for more vocations and support those serving. #HolyOrders #Faith #Vocation #Leadership https://young-catholics.com/13481/the-sacrament-of-holy-orders/

Quote of the day, 7 June: Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew

I was very small, not knowing yet how to speak, when one day they put me on my feet in a room where my sisters were working.

My mother, passing by, said to them: “Be very careful that the little one does not fall, as she might kill herself.”

One of my sisters then said: “God would do her a great favor if she died, for now she would go to heaven.”

“Do not say that,” replied another of my sisters. ”May she not die; for, if she lives, she may become a saint.”

“That is doubtful,” replied the first. “Now there is no danger for her; while children who have reached the age of seven years, may sin.”

I heard all this, and when my sister uttered the word “sin” I raised my eyes to heaven, without knowing, as it seemed to me, what I was doing, and I thought that I saw the heavens open, and our Lord appeared to me in great majesty.

As it was something new, I felt pierced to the heart with fear and reverence for Him who was present, for I recognized that it was God, and that it was He who would judge me. From this moment, there was ever within me a great fear of sin, as my sisters called it, and of offending God.

Having reached the age of seven years, the thought came to me one day that I might, perhaps, have the misfortune to sin, and I wept. One of my sisters asked me why I wept. I answered, “Because I fear to commit sin, and I would rather die.”

Because of this fear, I began to have devotion towards several saints, but, before all, to the holy angels and to St. Joseph, whom, in my childlike simplicity, I took to be an angel.

It was, however, the most holy Virgin who had my first homage. I had great confidence in her.

I honored also the Eleven Thousand Virgins, St. John Baptist, and others among the blessed. Every day, I begged them to keep me from sin, and I begged them particularly for the virtue of chastity.

With such intercessors before God, I lived in great consolation and was very devoted to the good Jesus. I felt in my soul wonderful movements of His love, and in all that I did, my only desire was that my Jesus should see me, that He should look at me and be contented with me.

These were my habitual desires and thoughts when I was alone. I would look out of the windows into the fields to see if I could perceive Him, and this I did with great simplicity.

Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew

From her autobiography
First Book, Chapter II, Horror of Sin

Anne of St. Bartholomew, M; Bouix, M 1917, Autobiography of the Blessed Mother Anne of Saint Bartholomew, inseparable companion of Saint Teresa, and foundress of the Carmels of Pontoise, Tours and Antwerp, translated from the French by Michael, M A, H. S. Collins Printing Co., Saint Louis.

Featured image: Sainte Thérèse bénissant Anne de Saint-Barthélémy, unknown artist, oil on canvas, no date, from the collections of the Monastère du Carmel de Pontoise (Val-d’Oise, France). Photo: Conservation des antiquités et objets d’art du Val d’Oise. © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie / diffusion GrandPalaisRmn (Public domain).

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How can we help children today to develop a healthy horror of sin, like Blessed Anne?
⬦ Join the conversation in the comments.

#fear #laySister #prayer #sin #StAnneOfStBartholomew #vocation

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Marie du jour, 29 May: Blessed Elia of St. Clement

Let’s be guided today by the grateful and wonder-filled memory of the dreams and spiritual experiences that, from early childhood, revealed the tenderness of God’s love for Teodora Fracasso—Blessed Elia of St. Clement

In May 1905, when she was just over three years old and on holiday with her family, little Teodora had a dream that would remain impressed on her heart as a first heavenly calling:

“Mama, I dreamed that in front of our little house, near the driveway gate, stretched a vast field of fragrant lilies. A young matron, so beautiful, with eyes that sparkled like two stars, wrapped in a white mantle, crossed through it. In her beautiful hands she held a golden sickle, and with a smile from Paradise, she gently touched the white lilies to the right and left: at her touch, they bowed sweetly on their stems. When she reached the end of the white field, the beautiful Lady laid down the sickle, bent down, and plucked a small lily from the earth. She gazed at it for a long time, then pressed it to her heart and disappeared.”

Her mother, moved, said to her: “My little one, that was the Virgin Mary, who in a gesture of favor pressed your little soul to her Heart. You honor her every day, and she wanted to reward you by letting herself be seen while you slept.”

From that day on, with tear-filled eyes and a heart full of wonder, Teodora began to speak to Mary with words of love and offering: “My good Lady, how beautiful you were!… I offer myself to you, never ever to belong to the world, and when I grow up, I will be a nun.”

Blessed Elia of St. Clement

From the Triduum of Prayer to Blessed Elia of St. Clement

Translation from the Italian text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: A watercolor-style rendering of a red-haired girl gathering lilies outside a rustic Italian farmhouse evokes the childhood vision of Blessed Elia of St. Clement (Teodora Fracasso), whose early dream of the Virgin Mary marked her life of self-offering and grace. Image credit: Midjourney / Carmelite Quotes (AI-assisted, style inspired by Mary Cassatt and Tuscan watercolor)

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
What early memory or experience awakened my love for Mary or desire to offer myself to God?
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#beautiful #BlessedEliaOfStClement #dream #lilies #soul #TeodoraFracasso #VirginMary #vocation

Marie du jour, 28 May: St. Teresa of the Andes

From the solitude of my cell, I will pray for you to the Virgin so idolized, that she may reveal herself as a true Mother for the brother I love so much.

United in thought here on earth, our united souls will find themselves together again forever there in heaven after this sorrowful exile has ended.

Then we’ll understand the value of our separation during this time of exile, which will have won our eternal communion there in that homeland where there’s true life.

Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes

Letter 81 to her brother, Luis
14 April 1919

Note: Luis (affectionately known as “Lucho”) was the beloved brother and confidant of St. Teresa of the Andes. The two were inseparable during childhood and adolescence, and he cherished her deeply. Lucho was also a friend of St. Alberto Hurtado, the renowned Chilean Jesuit. Luis testified at two sessions during his sister’s beatification process, offering vivid personal memories that many found moving. The three surviving letters Teresa wrote to him are considered among her most beautiful and profound.

Griffin, M D & Teresa of the Andes, S 2023, The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: This striking image of Chile’s national patroness, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, was taken on her feast day, 16 July 2010. The feast is celebrated at the Votive Temple of Maipú, beloved by Chileans. The statue of the Virgin of Carmel is the focal point of the basilica, consecrated by St. Paul VI on 23 November 1974—nearly 70 years after the original votive church, commissioned by General Bernardo O’Higgins, was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Image credit: Municipalidad de Maipú / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How do I entrust those I love to the care of the Blessed Virgin—especially in times of separation or suffering?
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#CarmelOfLosAndes #familyLife #OurLadyOfMountCarmel #solitude #StTeresaOfTheAndes #vocation

Marie du jour, 23 May: St. Edith Stein

The image of the Mother of God demonstrates the basic spiritual attitude which corresponds to woman’s natural vocation; her relation to her husband is one of obedience, trust, and participation in his life as she furthers his objective tasks and personality development; to the child she gives true care, encouragement, and formation of his God-given talents; she offers both selfless surrender and a quiet withdrawal when unneeded.

All is based on the concept of marriage and motherhood as a vocation from God; it is carried out for God’s sake and under His guidance.

Saint Edith Stein

The Ethos of Women’s Professions
Lecture to the Association of Catholic Academics, Salzburg, 1 September 1930

Stein, E 2017, Essays On Woman, The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Book 2, translated from the German by Oben, F, ICS Publications, Washington D.C.

Featured image: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1615–1620), oil on canvas by Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639). Birmingham Museums Trust (Public domain).

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
Do I see my relationships and responsibilities as a vocation entrusted to me by God?
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#BlessedVirginMary #marriage #MotherOfGod #motherhood #StEdithStein #vocation #women

Just finished a reflection on Greg Isenberg's #KPI

"Treat Sunday night like a career dashboard, check your pulse at 8 PM" - Sunday Scaries as Diagnostics -

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#sundayscaries #leadership #vision #community #career #vocation #success #resilience

Quote of the day, 19 May: St. Edith Stein

In order to develop to the highest level the humanity specific to husband and children, woman requires the attitude of selfless service. She cannot consider others as her property nor as means for her own purposes; on the contrary, she must consider others as gifts entrusted to her, and she can only do so when she also sees them as God’s creatures towards whom she has a holy duty to fulfill.

Surely, the development of their God-given nature is a holy task. Of even higher degree is their spiritual development, and we have seen that it is woman’s supernatural vocation to enkindle, in the hearts of husband and children, the sparks of love for God or, once enkindled, to fan them into greater brightness.

This will come about only if she considers and prepares herself as God’s instrument.

Saint Edith Stein

Spirituality of the Christian Woman (1932)

Stein, E 2017, Essays On Woman, The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Book 2, translated from the German by Oben, F, ICS Publications, Washington D.C.

Featured image: California photographer Caleb Morris captures this shallow focus image of a woman gazing out a storefront at golden hour. Image credit: Caleb Morris / Unsplash (Stock photo).

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How am I being called to serve others selflessly—as God’s instrument, not for my own ends?
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#gifts #love #spiritualDevelopment #StEdithStein #vocation #woman

The Fourth Sunday in Easter

Today’s readings

Today’s brief Gospel reading begins with the wonderful line, “My sheep hear my voice.” Reflecting on that line caused me to wonder: how are the sheep to hear the shepherd in this day and age? There are so many things that vie for our attention, so many circumstances that distract us from everything important, that it would be easy to miss the call of the shepherd altogether.

So that’s what I want to preach on today: What will it take for us sheep to hear our Master’s voice? We who are so nervous about any kind of silence that we cannot enter a room without the television on as at least background noise. We who cannot go anywhere without our cell phones and/or ear buds implanted firmly in our ears? We who cannot bear to enter into prayer without speaking all kinds of words and telling God how we want to live our lives? In a previous parish, we were praying before our worship commission meeting. The chairperson of the commission was leading prayer, and part of that prayer called for some silent reflection. I could see the uneasiness on his face, and pretty quickly, he moved on from the prayer. That’s not uncommon: we often find silence awkward. If even our prayer and worship are cluttered with all kinds of noise, how are we to hear the voice of our Shepherd who longs to gather us in and lead us to the Promise? Yet Jesus makes it clear today that entering into the silence and listening for his voice is the only way we can survive spiritually, the only way we can come at last to eternal life.

Here’s a deeper question: how are we to hear the Shepherd’s voice if there are no shepherds to make it known? Today is the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. And I want to talk about all vocations today, but in a special way, I want to talk about vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Because these vocations, and especially the priesthood, are called upon to be the voice of Christ in today’s world. This is a special, and wonderful challenge, and I know there are young people in this community that are being called to it. We hear in today’s Liturgy of the Word that this task is not always easy because it is not universally accepted, as Paul and Barnabas found out. But it is a task that brings multitudes of every nation, race, people and tongue to the great heavenly worship that is what they have been created for.

We know that every person has a vocation. Every person is called on by God to do something specific with their life that will bring not only them, but also others around them, to salvation. Parents help to bring their children to salvation by raising them in the faith. Teachers help bring students to salvation by educating them and helping them to develop their God-given talents. Business people bring others to salvation by living lives of integrity and witness to their faith by conducting business fairly and with justice and concern for the needy. The list goes on. Every vocation, every authentic vocation, calls the disciple to do what God created them for, and helps God to bring salvation to the whole world.

On this Mother’s Day, we can see in our Blessed Mother, the model of living our vocation. Through her fiat, she embraced the Father’s will for her, and put her life in his service. Just this past week, we saw a Cardinal priest from our own metropolitan area become the successor to Saint Peter, our new pope. I don’t think that he would have seen that coming when he was studying for the priesthood in the Augustinian order, and I don’t know if any of us foresaw ever having an American pope, but his vocation called him to that service, and he said yes, his own fiat to God’s will.

What about you? Are you doing what God wants you to do with your life? Maybe your answer won’t require a radical change; it certainly won’t require you to become the pope! Maybe it just means you renew your commitment to your family, your work, your life as a disciple. But if you’re a young person out there and have only been thinking about what’s going to make you successful and bring in lots of money, maybe God is today asking you to stop thinking only of yourself and put your life’s work at the service of the Gospel. Maybe you’ll be called on to be a teacher, or a police officer, or a health care professional. And maybe, just maybe, God is calling you to enter the priesthood or religious life. On this day of prayer for vocations, I’m just asking you to pray that God would make his plans for your life clear to you, and that you would promise God to do what he asks of you. I can tell you first hand that nothing, absolutely nothing, will make you happier.

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

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Quote of the day, 10 May: Pope Leo XIV

This reflection is drawn from a homily delivered by Pope Leo XIV while serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Callao, Peru. Preached on the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, 17 January 2021, he invites the faithful to renew their relationship with Jesus.

The readings we have heard at this Mass for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time invite us to return to the beginning of our life of faith, to take a look at how we are living our relationship with Jesus.

In the Gospel, Jesus begins a dialogue with a question. He says to the disciples of John the Baptist—who will later become His own followers—“What are you looking for?” (Jn 1:38).

What are you looking for? What am I looking for? These are the first words of Jesus in this Gospel passage. We can say that the encounter with Jesus begins with a question: What are we looking for in life? What are we looking for in Jesus? The response of the two disciples is: “Rabbi, where are you staying?” As if to say, Where can we find you?

This question is very important for our lives—perhaps more than ever in these times—when we must seek the Lord and live our faith in new ways.

This question—Where can we find you? Where are you staying?—expresses a desire present in the hearts of all of us, of every human being—at least of those who seek something beyond the surface. Those who want to understand the true meaning of life and want to encounter God because they feel that need, that restlessness, that desire to live in union with the Lord.

When Jesus responds to the disciples’ question—“Where are you staying?”—He answers: “Come and see” (Jn 1:39).

The Lord calls us to follow Him, and if we follow, we will truly see wonders—even in the midst of suffering and pain and so many difficulties.

The Lord invites us to stay with Him, just as He did with the disciples of John. These disciples discover in Jesus the Lamb of God, the fullness of truth. That’s why Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, when he realizes he has found the Messiah, goes and finds his brother and says, “We have found the Messiah” (Jn 1:41). And then Peter too comes to know Jesus.

We want to live with Christ, to follow His example—He came to serve, not to be served. To live our faith especially through this experience of encountering Christ, through His Word—reading the Word of God, asking the Lord to enlighten us, to give us the capacity to hear His voice—through the Word and through other people who accompany us on the journey.

May the Lord help us to fulfill it, to be faithful, to live out this commitment He has asked of us. May we be faithful Christians, bearing witness with our lives—because we have already encountered Jesus. And now He wants to call us once again to accept that invitation: “Where are you staying?”

“Come and see.”

Pope Leo XIV (Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A.)

Prevost, R.F. 2021, Homily for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Diocese of Callao, 17 January. Available at: https://www.diocesisdelcallao.org/noticias/mons-robert-prevost-escuchando-la-palabra-de-dios-descubriremos-nuestra-vocacion

Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Pope Leo XIV (Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A.) greets the faithful from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica following his election as Supreme Pontiff on 8 May 2025. Image credit: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk (Some rights reserved).

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
Have I made space to hear Jesus’ voice in Scripture and respond to His invitation to “come and see”?
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#disciples #followingJesus #JesusChrist #PopeLeoXIV #service #unionWithGod #vocation #witness

Quote of the day, 14 April: St. Thérèse of Lisieux

We have only the short moment of this life to give to God… and He is already preparing to say: “Now, my turn…” What a joy to suffer for Him who loves us unto folly and to pass as fools in the eyes of the world.

We are not idlers, squanderers, either. Jesus has defended us in the person of the Magdalene.

He was at table [cf. Mk 14:3–6, Jn 12:1–8], Martha was serving, Lazarus was eating with Him and His disciples. As for Mary, she was not thinking of taking any food but of pleasing Him whom she loved, so she took a jar filled with an ointment of great price and poured it on the head of Jesus, after breaking the jar, and the whole house was scented with the ointment, but the APOSTLES complained against Magdalene…

It is really the same for us, the most fervent Christians, priests, find that we are exaggerated, that we should serve with Martha instead of consecrating to Jesus the vessels of our lives, with the ointments enclosed within them.…

And nevertheless what does it matter if our vessels be broken since Jesus is consoled and since, in spite of itself, the world is obliged to smell the perfumes that are exhaled and serve to purify the empoisoned air the world never ceases to breathe in.

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Letter LT 169 to her sister, Céline (excerpt)
19 August 1894

Note: When St. Louis Martin died on 29 July 1894, Céline was at his bedside and closed his eyes. She buried him on 2 August, then traveled with her aunt and uncle, Céline Fournet and Isidore Guérin, to Caen. There, on 19 August, she wrote to Thérèse about the painful opposition she faced from their cousins, Francis and Jeanne La Néele, who resented her decision to enter the Carmel of Lisieux on 14 September. That same day, Thérèse responded with this letter—her tender, passionate defense of the “waste” of love, inspired by Mary of Bethany.

Thérèse of Lisieux, S & Clarke, J 1988, General Correspondence: Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux: Volume 2 1890-1897. Centenary ed., Institute of Carmelite Studies, Washington DC.

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
Have you ever been misunderstood for choosing what you believed would please Jesus?
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#apostles #CarmelOfLisieux #CélineMartin #Jesus #MaryOfBethany #misunderstood #perfume #StThérèseOfLisieux #vocation

Quote of the day, 10 April: Jessica Powers

I love Abraham, that old weather-beaten
unwavering nomad; when God called to him,
no tender hand wedged time into his stay.
His faith erupted him into a way
far-off and strange. How many miles are there
from Ur to Haran? Where does Canaan lie,
or slow mysterious Egypt sit and wait?
How could he think his ancient thigh would bear
nations, or how consent that Isaac die,
with never an outcry nor an anguished prayer?
I think, alas, how I manipulate
dates and decisions, pull apart the dark,
dally with doubts here and with counsel there,
take out old maps and stare.
Was there a call at all, my fears remark.
I cry out: Abraham, old nomad you,
are you my father? Come to me in pity.
Mine is a far and lonely journey too.

Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D. (Jessica Powers)

Abraham (1967; 1984)

Powers, J 1999, The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Abraham serving the angels is an oil on oak panel painted by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1607–1669) in 1646. In this scene from Genesis 18, Abraham welcomes three mysterious visitors who renew God’s promise of a son. Sarah, standing in the doorway at right, overhears and laughs in disbelief. Image credit: Netherlands Institute for Art History / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
Where is God calling you to walk by faith today—without a map, without delay?
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#Abraham #faith #JessicaPowers #journey #OldTestament #poetry #readiness #SrMiriamOfTheHolySpirit #vocation

Quote of the day, 2 April: St. Edith Stein

“Through him, with him, and in him in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father, for ever and ever.”

With these solemn words, the priest ends the eucharistic prayer at the center of which is the mysterious event of the consecration. These words at the same time encapsulate the prayer of the church: honor and glory to the triune God through, with, and in Christ.

Although the words are directed to the Father, all glorification of the Father is at the same time glorification of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, the prayer extols the majesty that the Father imparts to the Son and that both impart to the Holy Spirit from eternity to eternity.

All praise of God is through, with, and in Christ.

Through him, because only through Christ does humanity have access to the Father and because his existence as God-man and his work of salvation are the fullest glorification of the Father;
with him, because all authentic prayer is the fruit of union with Christ and at the same time buttresses this union, and because in honoring the Son one honors the Father and vice versa;
in him, because the praying church is Christ himself, with every individual praying member as a part of his Mystical Body, and because the Father is in the Son and the Son the reflection of the Father, who makes his majesty visible.

The dual meanings of through, with, and in clearly express the God-man’s mediation.

The prayer of the church is the prayer of the ever-living Christ. Its prototype is Christ’s prayer during his human life.

Saint Edith Stein

The Prayer of the Church (1936)

Note: Edith’s former prioress, Sister Teresia Renata Posselt, O.C.D. comments on this essay in her biography, Edith Stein: Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite. Sister Teresia Renata writes:

Ecclesia orans. The classic phrase is indeed the most concise way of expressing the essence of Edith Stein. She was the embodiment of the Church’s prayer. No happier theme could have been offered her, to touch the deepest springs of her heart, than that set her by the Academic Union of St. Boniface: The Prayer of the Church. In 1936 she contributed an essay under that title to a symposium on “The Lifestream of the Church” (Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn). The thoughts she there expresses are the precious fruits of her own enlightened devotion.

Whoever reads this, can discern that Sr. Benedicta here opens the carefully guarded door to the sanctuary of her soul and lets us glimpse a little of her intimacy with God, kindled to a flame of love by the Holy Spirit in the opus Dei and in contemplation. Many people who were not very close to her were disappointed when Edith Stein chose to enter the contemplative order of Carmel rather than a liturgical order. But anyone who reads her article The Prayer of the Church will unhesitatingly include her among the great men and women of prayer from whom she there quotes, and will realize that this soul, inclined to contemplation by nature and grace, by inclination and vocation, could only become a Carmelite.

Posselt, T 2005, Edith Stein: The Life of a Philosopher and Carmelite, translated from the German by Batzdorff S, Koeppel J, and Sullivan J, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Stein, E. 2014, The Hidden Life: hagiographic essays, meditations, spiritual texts, translated from the German by Stein, W, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Orans woman in the Catacomb of Priscilla, a symbol of the Church at prayer. Image credit: Kristicak / Wikimedia Commons (Some rights reserved)

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Reflection question:
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A fresco in the Catacombs of Priscilla, Rome, shows the figure of a woman raising her hands in prayer, surrounded by seated figures to the right and left

Quand clairement, ta vie t’appelle ailleurs...
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Not everyone is made for the moment

Some are called.

It is where the word “#vocation” comes from.

http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/20/not-everyone-is-made-for-the-moment/

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world? It’s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they’re really good at. It’s all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It’s all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It’s all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it’s even possible to find out.
It’s all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be. It’s all the wasted chances.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Moving Pictures [Ginger] (1990)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4471…

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