Get your Masters. At the same time that I was hired as DRE, I had also taken a position as a teacher in a Catholic School. I left a career job, a decent paying job, to jump into the whirlwind. I was scared but felt such a strong urge to do so. The diocese began pushing me to go back to school in my second year and really did not want to only because of the time element. I was very busy with teaching full-time and working part time (supposedly) as a DRE (which was the title the pastor gave me) plus my 2 youngest children were still in high school (one was a junior and the other a senior). But I did begin Loyola then and I am so very grateful!!! I loved what I was learning! I loved our classes and the books we had to read and our discussions. I did not graduate believing that now I knew it all. I graduated with the realization the I knew really nothing and yet I was so enriched and what I did learn still guides me and I still use some of my Loyola Books when I am preparing to work with adults and teens. I did gain a real foundation for my work, my ministry as a DRE and I am so grateful for it placed me on a path of hungering to know more, to continue to grow, to search for the Mystery and to hunger for truth. It also drove me out into the world. In other words, if what I profess, teach, share is not applied to my participation in life in the world, then I am not a disciple, not really. I think for me that faith and moving into the discipleship of Christ is a life-long adventure. Participation in life in the world is what I must encourage others to do, to understand what that means, and to do myself if I dare to try to be a disciple and thus carry on the mission of Jesus. And try is what we really do. We try and we must keep trying no matter how many times we may come up short.
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