Let’s Rejoice in our Life Call
In Australia, we commemorate National Vocations Awareness Week from 4-11 August 2024. In 2013, in Gaudete et Exsultate Pope Francis called us to “rejoice and be glad” and to live holiness in today’s world. The 2019 General Chapter of the Sisters of Saint Joseph called us, “Let’s rejoice in our vowed religious life”. Divine love […]
Consecrated Life – An Evolving Reality
Reflection for the World Day for Consecrated Life (2 February 2024) Consecrated life is an evolving reality. To explore what it really means and matters for our world today, we need to engage in conversation about it. Recently I asked some Sisters to consider these questions. These are some of the thoughts they raised. I […]
Why would some people choose Religious Life today?
Annually in the Australian Catholic Church, we celebrate National Vocations Awareness Week, this year being held from 6-13 August. Why do some people choose chastity? To live a life of poverty? To life a life of obedience? The goal in each vocation is to love God with all one’s heart, mind, soul and strength, and […]
‘Circling’ with Fresh Courage
Written for World Day for Consecrated Life which is on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord – 2 February 2023. Recently, nine Sisters of Saint Joseph gathered at Mission Bay, Auckland, in Aotearoa New Zealand. We sought to respond to God’s call, “Enlarge the space of your tent, spread out your tent cloths […]
National Vocations Awareness Week 2022
Each of us shines like a star in the heart of God and in the firmament of the universe. At the same time, though, we are called to form constellations that can guide and light up the path of humanity, beginning with the places in which we live. [1] This year’s National Vocations Awareness Week […]
National Vocations Awareness Week: Journey with the Josephites
Pope Francis said in 2019, our vocation “teaches us that our life is not a fluke but rather a gift: that of being God’s beloved children, gathered in the great family of the Church.” National Vocations Awareness Week is a time for every Christian to ask these important questions:
World Day for Consecrated Life
Each year the Church sets aside 2 February, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, as a day dedicated to the celebration of consecrated life. The choice of this day for the commemoration is deliberate as the feast celebrates both waiting in hope and the encounter with Jesus. On this day, Jesus was brought […]