Today is the Feast of St. Catherine of Sienna. She lived in the fourteenth century when the Pope was working out of Avignon and the world as they knew it was in chaos. Her passionate devotion to Jesus led her to live an austere life. She worked to bring the Pope back to Rome, which did happen in her lifetime. She worked for unity and peace between conflicting factions. She was almost illiterate and yet she is named a Doctor of the Church for her brilliant, inspired thinking.
Catherine answered the call of God with utmost generosity.
Do you hear God calling you to the religious life? Sometimes this call feels more like an urgent desire. Sometimes it is experienced as a recognition of a good fit with a particular community. God could be calling you through the way a community prays, or through the way a community serves.
Regardless of how you "hear" the "call," are you responding to it? And if you are not, why not? It is, after all, GOD calling. Who are you to ignore GOD? God only wants what is good for you, what is satisfying, fulfilling and very meaningful. Answering the call also brings with it the grace to follow to wherever that call leads.
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