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AS063 Ask Sister – Live from the Motherhouse! The nuns talk about the daily Examen prayer, God and free will, different notions of vocation, feeling unconnected to God and more!
AS063 Ask Sister podcast recorded live on March 11, 2011. Sponsored by aNunsLife.org ministry. Guest: Sister Kathie Budesky. Topics include: the daily Examen prayer, God and free will, different notions of vocation, feeling unconnected to God, and more!
This episode was broadcast live from the IHM Motherhouse in Monroe, Michigan, with an in-house audience! Sister Kathie Budesky, IHM, the director of Visitation North Spirituality Center, joined Sister Maxine and Sister Julie on air.
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Here are some of the topics we addressed in this Ask Sister podcast:
- Can you talk more about the “Examen Prayer”? What is it? How do you use it/apply it?
- How do we make sense of God and free will?
- What is the difference between vowed religious vocations and ‘non-vowed religious vocations’?
- What do you do when you don’t feel connected with God as usual?
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What’s the difference between a vowed religious vocation and a “non-vowed religious vocation”? Are they on opposite sides of the spectrum or do they overlap?
Would this be things like ministry? I am reminded of our volunteers at our Pantry who help to feed and clothe the poor, members of a parish bereavement team, parish musicians, home visitors, religious education volunteer teachers, etc.
Do they overlap? Of course. In the old days, only religious did a lot of the things I mentioned above. Now everybody is invited to find their place on the yoke in God’s fields. (I have this image of a team of oxen pulling a plow for some reason!)
What’s the difference between a vowed religious vocation and a “non-vowed religious vocation”? Are they on opposite sides of the spectrum or do they overlap?
Would include things like ministry? I am reminded of our volunteers at our Pantry who help to feed and clothe the poor, of members of a parish bereavement team, parish musicians, home visitors, religious education volunteer teachers, etc.
Do they overlap? Of course. In the old days, only religious did a lot of the things I mentioned above. Now everybody is invited to find their place on the yoke in God’s fields. (I have this image of a team of oxen pulling a plow for some reason!)
Good point, ASJ. The diminished number of priests has had the positive effect of opening up opportunities for other religious and lay people to play more active roles in the church and its various ministries.
Marg, I look at it more as the laity being allowed to exercise their Baptismal priesthood (small “p”).