Taste and See

When I returned to teaching in the Catholic school system (after sixteen years of being part stay-at-home mom and part-time curriculum director for a tutoring center), I was not expecting the ‘hunger’ to strike. In fact, I hadn’t even been planning on returning to classroom teaching, but God obviously had other plans for me.  I absolutely loved teaching fifth grade, especially Religion, and discovered I was ‘falling in love’ with my Roman Catholic faith.  As a cradle Catholic and graduate of nine years of parochial school I had never before experienced this depth of feeling.  The more I taught the faith, the more I learned with the students, and the more passionate I became about it as well.  This passion fueled my ‘hunger’ and I began researching graduate schools of theology/religious studies in order to be ‘fed’ further by the treasures of our Catholic faith.  Digging more deeply into Scripture and Tradition has also made me thirst for a better/closer relationship with God our Father and His only Son, Jesus Christ (more on this another time).  The point to this can be found in the message that I share with my students at the beginning of and during each school year:  we never stop learning about our faith and what God reveals to us, and it is a humbling privilege to be on this lifelong journey together as we ‘fall more in love’ with our faith and grow closer to our Lord in the process.  The more we learn, the hungrier we will become!  It is my prayerful hope that you will rediscover the nourishment of God’s love and the Catholic tradition in the ‘sacred bytes’ offered in this blogspot, and that we will share these moments in our fellowship of pilgrimage as the Body of Christ!  Will you come taste and celebrate what the Catholic faith offers us with me?