One way of a pilgrim..

Yesterday we went to St. Peter's and I was quiet impressed with the sights.  It had been a long time and many changes since I had last been here.  My memory flooded back to the ground that our pilgrimmage group left at the base of where the life-sized Nativity scene was erected.  I remembered Mass at the tomb of St. Peter and now the sounds were similiar but have taken on a new and deeper meaning.  Then I came praying, asking what I was do to with my life...What was God asking of me?.  Today, I prayed the same prayer but as a Benedictine Sister knowing that my life was committed to serve God and others in a more profound way.  I was now here with other Benedictines, in prayerful communion, to learn what St. Benedict was asking me to learn....in the country and place where he had lived.  Yes, I was a pilgrim again, but with a different mission. This time I was asking, listening and trying to live the way of Benedict in serving God.  I had answered God's call for my life as others have that are with me.  It was a great feeling....a great day.....my journey continues.....

We have a day of class and reflection today so I will leave you with just this little blurb.  I was quiet moved yesterday by my feelings of being here once again...this time though.....I am Sister John Paul .....a Benedictine Sister from St. Joseph Monastery, St. Marys, Pennsylvania.