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blujazz25
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Good day fellow Catholics!
It has been a while since I have posted and I greatly appreciate the support and advices I get here.
Couple of updates, we moved to a different state entirely out of faith. God has called us out here for a reason (my husband received a job offer here, so God gave us the means to get here) and now that we are here, we are waiting and praying for God to guide us and tell us what needs to be done.
Moving away from our support group, our ministry, my family and leaving my job for the sake of His calling was such a big test of trust. One of the reasons perhaps is for God to strengthen our marriage by teaching us to cleave on one another. Other than that, we do not know anything else.
So far based from what have been seeing in the new environment, we are placed in a spiritual dessert so to speak. No volunteer opportunities, churches are not filled, some of the pastors are strict on getting mobility in the ministry.
Before we moved here, we had a whole myriad of things, we volunteered for NET ministries, youth retreats apart from our service in our church ministry. All in all we were kept busy but in such a good way, we grew a lot in our faith through our service.
Now we struggle to find spiritual nourishment in this new place, even in the ministry that we are in seems to be dry as well.
I do not know if its God’s perfect placement or coincidence, our apartment is right smack in the middle of a high school, and elementary school and two Catholic schools. And with the nature of our service from where we came from, I have been inspired to somehow bring the ministry here but like what I have said before, some pastors don’t seem to care. I had a pastor tell me that he is more concerned on making a strong Catholic identity on the kids when they leave the school and I opened up certain ministries that I have the chance of volunteering for, he said he has heard of it but seemed to brush it aside and not do anything.
I believe that if you want to make that impact, you have to get the kids and youth involved as much as they can.
It seems like this place is barren, we are like in a dessert looking for water. I mean we go to mass on Sundays and days of obligation, but we want our faith to be more than just obligation and this place seem to not give us that nourishment. We both don’t know why God called us out here, but we are praying that He will show us the way and bring us to the right people.
It has been a while since I have posted and I greatly appreciate the support and advices I get here.
Couple of updates, we moved to a different state entirely out of faith. God has called us out here for a reason (my husband received a job offer here, so God gave us the means to get here) and now that we are here, we are waiting and praying for God to guide us and tell us what needs to be done.
Moving away from our support group, our ministry, my family and leaving my job for the sake of His calling was such a big test of trust. One of the reasons perhaps is for God to strengthen our marriage by teaching us to cleave on one another. Other than that, we do not know anything else.
So far based from what have been seeing in the new environment, we are placed in a spiritual dessert so to speak. No volunteer opportunities, churches are not filled, some of the pastors are strict on getting mobility in the ministry.
Before we moved here, we had a whole myriad of things, we volunteered for NET ministries, youth retreats apart from our service in our church ministry. All in all we were kept busy but in such a good way, we grew a lot in our faith through our service.
Now we struggle to find spiritual nourishment in this new place, even in the ministry that we are in seems to be dry as well.
I do not know if its God’s perfect placement or coincidence, our apartment is right smack in the middle of a high school, and elementary school and two Catholic schools. And with the nature of our service from where we came from, I have been inspired to somehow bring the ministry here but like what I have said before, some pastors don’t seem to care. I had a pastor tell me that he is more concerned on making a strong Catholic identity on the kids when they leave the school and I opened up certain ministries that I have the chance of volunteering for, he said he has heard of it but seemed to brush it aside and not do anything.
I believe that if you want to make that impact, you have to get the kids and youth involved as much as they can.
It seems like this place is barren, we are like in a dessert looking for water. I mean we go to mass on Sundays and days of obligation, but we want our faith to be more than just obligation and this place seem to not give us that nourishment. We both don’t know why God called us out here, but we are praying that He will show us the way and bring us to the right people.
Many blessings!
