Pick Up The Phone...

Family, Community, and Participation is calling! Whether you know it or not you are called to these things as a human being. Some people think of family as a mom and a dad and children, while this is one way you can participate you can also join a missionary or some other religious vocation if that is your calling. Someone who did just that was Sister Thea Bowman who is a great example of this CST. Thea Bowman was the granddaughter of a slave and was raised by Methodist parents but soon converted to Catholicism. As a teenager she became a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration. Throughout her life she lived out this CST by teaching and sharing God's love with her students. She was diagnosed with bone cancer, became disable and used a wheelchair but still she strived to be true to herself by working against prejustice, suspicion, hatred, and things that drive people apart. If we all follow in her example in some way the world would be such a better place. This is what the Catholic Social Teachings are trying to get us to do. She was just one person and she made such a big difference in many people’s lives, imagine if that was you. How good would you feel? Many of us won't enter a missionary but we will more than likely start a family and have children. This itself is a participation in family life. But you are also called to participate in your community. This isn’t that hard just take a part of the things people around you are doing. Do you get involved in things the people around you are doing?? (leave comments and stories) :)
-Meagan