Why I Quit – Part 3: Philosophies
When I was hired by a local parish as their Director for Youth & Family Ministry my husband and I registered as part of that church community. Prior to this position, I had been in diocesan ministry for 6 years which can make it difficult to be part of of single parish family since a
Why I Quit – Part 2: The Husband
[warning: this post may be very counter-cultural, even in Catholic circles. not sorry.] November 13, 1993 It sounds cliché, but I married my best friend in 1993. We have never had a fight, we’ve never questioned our vows, and we’ve never strayed from them. Over the past 25 years, the only thing that has changed
Why I Quit – Part 1: Ministry Burnout
So many people have asked why I chose to leave my position in youth ministry, especially when I loved it and felt very called to work with young people. My answer: lots of reasons. Not that there were a lot of bad things happening. It was more like God had placed many things on my
The Hinge in Transition
Last night was my final evening with our middle school youth and we ended, as we always do every week, with 30 minutes of Eucharistic Adoration – my favorite form of prayer. Today I went to the Cathedral for the 12:10 Mass forgetting what day it was. My personal intention for this Mass was that
Courage, Dear Kathleen
“But no one except Lucy new that as it circled the mast had whispered to her, ‘Courage, Dear Heart’, and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan’s…” Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis Lately, I’ve felt a bit like Lucy, needing, hoping, to hear Aslan’s voice telling me to have courage. Aslan, the only character