Sr Kathryn’s Podcast - Touching the Sunrise
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Highlights:
Questions about life’s meaninglessness, about the way in which our days pass like vapor, about how all that we do and accomplish seems to vanish without a trace as we age, these burden not just the heart of Qoheleth in today’s first reading, but at certain points in our lives these questions haunt us too. I once heard that the book of Ecclesiastes identifies the question to which the whole of Revelation is the answer. In this quickly changing world, all that our life has been seems to slip through our fingers, and our heart longs for life, true life, life that is a treasure that neither moth nor rust can destroy.
There is something cyclical in this description of continual, unending, “coming and going” of things. In this reading there is no sense of the enduring, of divine gift and guidance and mission, of an end which has been ordained for all things by God. Instead, the more things change, as the saying goes, the more things stay the same, endlessly repeating to seemingly no purpose.
Today many experience life in this way. Not being grounded in the fertile soil of God’s action and love, much of what constitutes activity in our world seems to have no real meaning. I believe that during the pandemic many began to feel this way. The tasks they had been doing in their jobs were now no longer satisfying to them, no longer seemed purposeful, no longer worth devoting their whole life to. They began to seek something more meaningful to do with their careers.
It is ultimately only God who truly defines us and the purpose of our lives, their unending purpose.
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Mid-Life Epiphany
Listening to the Word of God: Jesus is always passing by (Mt 9:9-13)
Listening to the Word of God: Will we risk being changed forever? (Luke 12:54-59)
Listening to the Word of God: The Bread of Life (John 6:22-29)
A Prayerful Exercise in Forgiveness
Pin Pricks and Pet Peeves
How to make forgiveness a part of your life
How to Choose Forgiveness: St Rita’s Amazing Story
Suffering and Forgiveness: Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom
How to Bear the Fruit of Christ in Your Life
You, yes YOU, are God’s choice (Horizons of the Heart 8)
How to keep love alive in violent times
Jesus says: “I am the one you are looking for” (Horizons of the Heart 4)
How to know for sure God loves you (Horizons of the Heart 3)
The Amazing Promise of New Beginnings (Horizons of the Heart 2)
Say a Strong YES to Your Existence (Horizons of the Heart 1)
How to sustain prayerful strength in the face of tribulations
2022: Like Mary and Joseph Let Yourself Be Swept Up Into God’s Purposes
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