Just Thinking
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: Do your chain hang low? Young Jibbs
Check this out! This is the Vocation Director that I work with. Isn't it cool? I copied it from the website of the Sisters.

On Sunday, July 16, Sister Jean Marie showed her true athletic talent when she threw out the ceremonial "first pitch" at the Cincinnati Reds game at Great American Ballpark. Sister Jean Marie was invited by Great American Insurance to throw out the first pitch. The day coincided with the induction of three former Red's players into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. Many who saw Sister's throw thought she did a better job than the Hall of Famers!


Anyways, just thought that was kinda cool.
On to the next topic. I was at a church for a talk on Darfur and the genocide that's going on over there. The talk was given by Nick Clooney (father of George and brother of Rosemary). He talked about how it's effecting families and how mothers have to sometimes make the choice which of their children to save. An example he gave of this is that the mother could carry the 2 year old child and the 13 year old child could run as fast as he could, but that left the 5 year old child to fend for himself. That particular mother went back to see if she could find her 5 year old son and she only found his head.

He concluded by stating that any help that can be given would be great. I didn't have any money on me at the time. I wonder if Christian Children's Fund is over there? He said that there are lots of organisations over there trying to help these people. Here are a few websites for you to look at:

www.crs.org
www.savedarfur.org
www.MillionVoicesForDarfur.org

What is going on in Darfur right now is the same thing that went on in Rwanda a few years ago. We need to help stop this. We turned our backs on Rwanda and millions died. Will we do the same to Darfur? I hope not.

The church that I went to is called Mother of God. I loved that place! There were many things to look at and reflect on. I'll have to go back there sometime when there's not something else going on so that I can just wander around and look. I had a feeling that the Sisters had been there...and sure enough, I went home and looked it up in the book that I'm reading. They ran the school...though there hasn't been a school there in forever.

Well, I'm waiting for word from the provincial to see if I can move into a house of discernment.

Also, it was awesome, the 2 vocation directors came to Tuesday night mass. I was soooo happy to have them there!

Peace,
Anne