..It wasn’t the Lord’s path for me and I have no regrets.
If only we could all be so trusting and selfless!
Read Kristin Holum's, now Sister Catherine's, story here.
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As my brother-in-law said, "Meat always tastes best on Fridays."
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Hmmm, considering forwarding this to all the friends and family inquiring about when I'll be returning to work...
"The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, has highlighted the importance of a mother in the home caring for her family and has suggested economic compensation or tax reductions for those women who choose to do this... He observed, 'The self-realization sought by the woman in a job, in a career, in social success has as a cost the renouncement of the marriage and children.' "
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I can't help but see a connection between these two quotations:
“The human person is a being which does not become itself automatically. Nor does it do so simply by letting itself be carried along and surrendering to the natural gravitational pull of a kind of vegetative life. It becomes itself always and only by struggling against the tendency simply to vegetate and by dint of discipline that is able to rise above the pressures of routine and to liberate the self from the compulsions of utilitarian goals and instincts.” Pope Benedict XVI
"For two of the most perfect and powerful means to becoming a saint are Eucharistic adoration and frequent Holy Communion - not because they are liturgically correct, and not because they are psychologically useful, but because Jesus Christ the saint-maker is present in the Eucharist as He is nowhere else in the world. And wherever He is present, He is active. Even when He waits patiently in the Tabernacle, disguised behind the appearances of a little wafer of bread, He is acting. ('Waiting' is an action too.)" Peter Kreeft
Let us pray that we can be always active, always struggling against the tendency simply to vegetate.
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