Pilgrim progress- a disciple on a journey!

Pope Francis calls us to pause before the joy of the moment when "Jesus looked at me" and to recall the important and demanding, underlying meaning of our vocation: “It is a response to a call, a call of love”. To stay with Christ requires us to share our lives, our choices, the obedience of faith, the happiness of poverty, the radicality of love. It is about being reborn through vocation. Since we are witnesses of a communion beyond our vision and our limits, we are called to wear God’s smile and live joyfully. The world awaits this from us and the world deserves this from us!

First stage of the return to Ottawa is completed and I am sitting here in the Porter lounge waiting for my connection to Montreal. I have to be honest, when I board a flight, I am always weary who is going to end up sitting beside me. I’m a bit of a nervous flyer especially for take-off and landing and believe me, there are many decades of the Rosary said during the flight. So I took my seat and hoped for the best. Shortly afterwards, a very official looking business man, probably in his late thirties, sat down beside me and introduced himself as Julian. He took out his magazine, some financial magazine with a headline reading ‘Become rich and retire’, catching my eye. That was about the height of the niceties until I took off my coat, to which I got the reaction (loud reaction!): “O.M.G, you’re a nun!”. He obviously saw my cross. Half the passengers on the plane turned around. Yes, he did actually say, ‘O.M.G’. Throughout the flight, the presence of my flight companion did g...