Imperishable Beauty

be careful what you pray for...

This past Thursday, I went to ISI (which I attend twice a month maybe?), and the talk was about vocations.
On Friday, I went to 5:15 Mass (which I usually don't go to this semester) and the homily was about vocations (with pretty much the same opening line as the talk from ISI, which is originally why I noticed).
On Saturday, I went to 9 am Mass (which I hardly ever go to) and I thought I was safe...until I realized that the gospel was about the calling of the disciples.
Sunday morning they handed out saint cards at the catechism class I teach, and I took a random saint I had never heard of before (Teresa of the Andes I think), and flipped it over to see that she was a discalced Carmelite. And then the little kids asked if I was going to be a nun.
Yesterday I saw a movie for my American Religious History class which was all about this preacher man discovering and living out his plan to be an apostle.
Today, I really didn't hear much vocation related, except maybe one line in the homily about "we do not yet know what we shall be." I came back to my room after orchestra, not planning on leaving again, not going to have any more theological discussions, no opportunity for me to hear about vocations, right? Until I click on the rarely-update blog of a ND friend I barely know...who had just published an entire post about the call to religious life.
Sigh.
God, when I said I wanted you to write me a letter and tell me what to do with my life? I don't think I really meant it.

But please pray for me if this is turning out to be a special time of discernment!

posted by Jessica @ 10:35 PM |

i don't know what i want

isn't that a funny problem? life is so good in general, and my life in particular is full of so many good things. i want them all, but not to the exclusion of any. but seeing as i only have one life, having it all isn't going to happen. but why does choosing hurt? silly me...i'll have something good no matter what.
like Aquinas says, we're all pursuing the same ultimate good, we just all have different ideas on how to achieve it.


for some reason, the more introspective i become, the less i use capital letters.

posted by Jessica @ 11:31 PM |

yessss

defeated in the last two weeks: three papers, three tests, one football game (hey it takes time too), two catechism classes, and one 8-am basilica EM-ing stint.
And I'm pretty much done until fall break. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Of course, I'm kind of saving a LOT of reading/research for fall break, those bus rides better be productive this time.
Also, google "San Patricios" and tell me it you don't think it would make a perfect history honors thesis, cause I kind of think it would. I could find funding to research in Dublin and Mexico City this summer...and yeah, it just sounds sweet.
I'm really ready for fall break this year, this semester has been really busy. None of my classes are slack-off classes, which means I'm getting full use of my tuition I guess, but also means I have to think about all five classes all the time.
I've spent like 2.5 hours writing blue-book essays this afternoon, so that's about all the creativity i have right now.
GO IRISH! GO TWINS!

posted by Jessica @ 3:49 PM |