{"article":{"id":16016,"heading":"Please Pray for My Vocation.","author":"Craig Stehr","created":"2002-04-20 18:11:39","modified":"2002-04-23 15:56:26","last_modified":"Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:56:26","article":"

I have spent the past thirty years, since college graduation, doing frontline environmental\/peace&justice organizing-activism. I also spent the past ten years doing homeless service with Catholic Worker all over the United States. I need a spiritual vocation in the Catholic Church. Presently, I am sleeping on a retired friend's apartment floor here in Berkeley, CA, and I have no money. Obviously, this society\/culture doesn't give me what I need for my general sustenance, no matter how much good I do in service to God. Therefore, I am asking the Catholic world, and others, to pray to Jesus Christ, i.e, God, the Divine, for me, so that I receive a stable, loving, spiritual situation as soon as possible, and that I receive what I basically need for the rest of my life. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","contact":"craigstehr@catholic.org","link":"","address":"2500 Hillegass, #16, Berkeley, CA 94704","phone":"510-548-6811","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"I need my life of environmental\/peace&justice organizing-activism, and homeless service, to turn into a full spiritual vocation.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/04\/16016.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":16060,"heading":"Thanks for the Email Responses.","article":"Thanks to all who sent me email responses. I agree that the one and only way is to stay centered spiritually, and act from there. I don't know if Catholicism is going to give me anything or not. I know what Reality is, and I know that keeping the mind directed toward that is what is essential. Beyond this, is the mystical, which doesn't need discussion.","author":"Craig Stehr","parent_id":16016,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-04-23 15:56:26","modified":"2002-04-23 16:28:10","fileurl":""}]}