I have been to two Vocation meetings within a week.
The energy was unmistakable – friends meeting again, curious questions of how others have been and what they have been doing – catching up.
Maybe it was like the season of returning to school after a summer break! The energy was also high about the ministry of invitation, of vocations, of possibilities toward new membership.
What a wonder to have such a concentration of commitment and love and service and hope and joy. It was a kind of witnessing to each other.
May it overflow to all we meet.
– Sister Janet Hockman, MM
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Sr. Janet (r) served in Nepal before becoming our vocations director.
Last Wednesday, I had an opportunity to meet with a group of men and women who will go on short-term mission assignments, many of them for the first time.
I asked them where they were going. Uganda, Ethiopia, China, Bolivia, and Cambodia. I felt the excitement within and had a tender taste again of what it is to “send” others out.
I was with them to look at aspects of spirituality for mission. My neat outline was also covered with unfolding thoughts and memories.
I never got to play the song God Is Here, but it ran as a refrain for me. God is wherever “here” is.
It is our attention to that mystery that opens possibilities for endless relationships and compassionate service — the possibility of being called and sent.
— Sister Janet Hockman, MM
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