The following post by friend, and Following the Spirit vocation discernment series collaborator, Pastor Karen Wight Hoogheem is reprinted with permission. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-7, 31b-35 If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do tonight? That’s the question Jesus got to answer. Jesus knew the time Read more…
by Laura Kelly Fanucci, Project Researcher, Collegeville Institute From the time we are children and teenagers, people ask us questions like, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” and “What are you going to do with your life?” Sometimes such questions seem exciting and full of possibility. Read more…
The following prayer and questions are ones we will draw on in Session Two of our Discernment Series. Session Two is entitled, “Learning to Listen: Practices of Discernment.” We are grateful to our partners at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research for this curriculum and the resources they offer us. Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion Monday, February 25, 2013, marks our second discernment session of the “Following the Spirit” series at St. Jane House. This evening will focus on how we tune in and hear God’s voice and invitation for our lives. What follows are a few links to resources Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion “Did you know the Pope resigned?” It was six o’clock on Monday, February 11, 2013. I was sitting outside the Girard House when my “Following the Spirit” co-facilitator Meagan McLaughlin rang with this headlines question. “Did you know?” she asked. “I’m sitting here with the Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion When I walked into work that Monday morning, the assistant principal at the school approached me about interviewing for the newly posted teaching position. There were two of us in the Professional Practice School who had been asked to apply — one position. In my Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion I did not want the job I was invited to interview for. I’d been teaching at this particular Twin Cities public high school for almost two years — student teaching one fall, long-term subbing in the spring, interning full time the following year. It was Read more…
Monday, October 29, 2012, marked our third session, entitled “Many Callings/ One Life,” of our “Following the Spirit” Discernment Series at St. Jane House. Discerning participant Amanda Steepleton was our featured story-teller, reflecting on her life and journey to date. She began her narrative with the following abbreviated list of Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion As Sr. Katherine and I prepare for this evening’s “Following the Spirit” discernment series, these two poems strike me as beautiful prayers for all who discern/ reflect/ contemplate their journeys on this earth. Maybe they speak to you? Let me know your favorite line! Late Read more…
by Melissa Borgmann-Kiemde, Visitation Companion “We are called to live in solidarity with the crucified Christ.” — Corein Brown, Collegeville Institute It’s Saturday morning, July 14, 2012; I am at St. Jane House in north Minneapolis for a Vocation-Storytelling-retreat with ten other discerning women and men gathered together to reflect Read more…