PEV Young Professional Women

WELCOME BACK, FRIENDS! 🤩🎉

We hope you all had a restful winter break and have started 2022 in full swing! We're exciting to bring to you our first event of 2022 this Thursday, February 24th from 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

You can register for free by clicking the link below!

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VZd7m6YxRJy7fmQ8tlDOTQ

Remembering Christmas’ True Meaning

St. Josemaria said, “Every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.”

During the season leading up to Christmas, we open up our spaces and we make room for trees, gifts and decorations. We open up our schedules and make room for gatherings with loved ones. We open up our homes and make room at our tables.

Although what, or rather, whom should we ultimately be making room for?

Perhaps we can take a moment aside from all the hustle and bustle to sit with this question and reflect on the first Christmas.

When we commemorate the birth of Christ, we are presented with an opportunity; the opportunity to open up our hearts and invite Jesus in, and allow Him to meet and enter into our soul.

Let us be bold enough to take that opportunity; to make room in our hearts so that we can receive the graces of joy, hope, love and healing that Jesus intends to give each of us in this season and always.

Wishing you all a beautiful Christmas from the PEV Team 💕🙏🏽

*CHRISTMAS BAKE SALE!* 🎅🏼

What are you craving?

Check out the link in our bio to order fresh treats for your friends and family! 🎄🍪🥧🍫🍯

All proceeds from the bake sale will go towards buying new books for the in Toronto (both spiritual reading and young adult books). 📚

Use the link in our bio to make an order if you are based in Toronto. Orders will be ready for pickup any day between December 18 - December 24.

Enjoy!




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Happy Monday! 💕💪

Living Enthusiastically in the Present by contributor, Andrea

"Hello sisters, my name is Andrea! On today's motivation Monday I wanted to share with you a word or phrase that has been going through my mind. It is: "live in the present moment".

I know for myself, it has been the most difficult thing to do because of what is going on around me, as well as what I want in life. However, this weekend, I was reminded by my spiritual director and my friend that we have to live in the present with enthusiasm because that is where we God truly calls us to act - the past is already gone and the future is not here. It is only in the present moment that we can change and live with joy our Christian faith. Everything else is out of our control, but we can change what we do in the present moment.

Those human emotions and temptations of worry and fear can cripple us and bring us down. Sometimes, we may even get so discouraged that we don't even know where to go. That is where God can say, "just be with Me, in the present. Be not afraid. You are my Beloved daughter." 👩‍🦰

Please send us your story!

Here’s how you can contribute:-

1. Write your professional inspirational experience or challenge. 📝
2. DM it to us! 📧

Happy Tuesday, Friends!

Need a little bit of R&R after work? Continue reading for only the best Mulled Wine recipe! 🍷😌

Ingredients:
🍊 1 large orange
🍋 3 lemons
🎋12 cloves
🍊 2 clementines
🍷2 x 750ml bottles red wine
🟤 2 cinnamon sticks
🍭2/3 cup caster sugar (optional)
🥃 brandy, to taste (optional)

Method:
☃️ Carefully peel the zest very thinly from the orange and lemons using a vegetable peeler. Squeeze out the juice and reserve.
☃️ Stick the cloves into the clementines.
☃️ Pour the wine, 1.2 litres/2 pints of cold water, and the citrus peel and juices into a large, heavy-based saucepan. Add the clove-studded satsumas and cinnamon sticks.
☃️ Bring the mixture just to the boil, then reduce the heat until the mixture is simmering, cover the pan with the lid, and continue to simmer for about 1 hour.
☃️Stir in the sugar gradually during cooking, until the mulled wine is sweetened to your liking (you may not need all of the sugar).
☃️ Strain the mulled wine and serve hot in cups.

If you try it, send us photos or tag us! We can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

Hello everyone!

Getting ready for office and family Christmas gatherings? Be it in-person or virtual, we've got you covered so you can show up the best version of yourself!

Swipe to check out PEV Young Professional's Winter Look-book with some amazing Christmas ideas to light up your parties 🎄 ✨

Tag a friend and let us know what your style is!

Please click on the bio to access the Pinterest board.

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'Tis The Season!🎁

Have you ever considered the gift of yourself?

This 💭 we're sharing some sweet ideas that are sure to brighten the day of those around you! 🎄👼🏻

Ideas:
✨ Offer to cook an item for your Christmas meal
✨ Drop of Christmas cards at a nursing home
✨ Drop of canned food items at a homeless shelter
✨ Volunteer at a soup kitchen
✨ Pray or teach the the rosary to someone you love
✨ Help your local church with parish decorations
✨ Carolling for your neighbours or for a cause
✨ Read a Christmas story to children
✨ Sponsor a child or family in need
✨ Donate baby items to a pregnancy help centre
✨ Pass out candy canes with Christmas notes to your co-workers
✨ Pass out gloves, blankets or jackets to the homeless
✨ Donate hygiene products to a women's shelter
✨ Unexpectedly pay for the person behind you'd coffee in the drive-thru

Spread the joy this season by tagging a friend, teaming up and/or completing one of the projects above. If you do, don't forget to tag us! 💕

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Happy Monday! 💕💪

On Overcoming Setbacks by contributor, Mary!

"We all had dreams of who we wanted to be when we grew up. I had many, including being a teacher. But life just didn’t work out, and I suddenly found myself unable to do what I had always imagined. It felt like a huge failure I would never overcome. I felt that my boat had completely capsized.

But I did overcome it. In the aftermath, I took a step back to take time to do other things, and doors kept opening. I am now in a job I never imagined for myself, but that I love. And I discovered that my identity and self-worth are not held in “being a teacher”, and that this failure was only a setback along my way.

Sometimes I notice a fear of failure, a fear of capsizing, creeping in when I make mistakes at work. But now I have an arsenal of experience behind me, and I force myself to take small risks until I regain my ground. Taking these small risks helps me overcome my mistakes and trains me to take even bigger risks by becoming less afraid of falling. After all, what’s the worst that can happen?

I know that, many times, my boat may be off kilter. Perhaps I will be heading in the wrong direction. Perhaps I will be completely lost. Perhaps I won’t be able to see anything in front of me. Perhaps I’ll be capsized again. But, as a character in the Maisie Dobbs series proclaims, “time is a great editor”, and I hope and trust that, as long as I keep getting back up, keep moving, eventually my boat will straighten itself out and I will end up where I am meant to be."

Please send us your story!

Here’s how you can contribute:-

1. Write your professional inspirational experience or challenge. 📝
2. DM it to us! 📧

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol 🎄🎵

This 💭, PEV is paying homage to a Christmas classic!

There are many film adaptations of Charles Dicken’s classic novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ but many people find the 1938 version to be the best (let us know in the comments which adaptation is your favourite)! A Christmas Carol tells the story of an old miser who cares nothing about the people around him. In one terrifying night on Christmas Eve, he is visited by three spirits -- one from the past, another from the present, and the last from the future -- who show him the errors of his ways and the ultimate price he will pay for them if he doesn’t change them. It is a classic story that reminds us of the importance behind the true meaning of Christmas and confronting the state of one’s own soul.

Why we recommend it? The story emphasizes a valued theme: death gives life its meaning. It is between Scrooge’s encounter with Marley and his face-to-face encounter with his own tombstone, under the gaze of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, that Scrooge is converted.

This advent, let us prepare to meet our Saviour. 👶🏻🎄

Images 📸:
1 - “A Christmas Carol” poster.
2 - “A Christmas Carol” original manuscript, purchased by J. P. Morgan in 1897.
3 - The frontispiece to the Tauchnitz Edition of ‘A Christmas Carol’
4 - Title Page of the First Edition

Happy Friday, Friends! ☃️❄️🌲

With winter upon us and colder weather here, PEV Young Professionals would like to highlight our Hand In Hand initiative and thank all those who donated mittens and gift cards this October.

Already the evenings are brisk and there is a chill in the morning air. Those experiencing homelessness often have a difficult time with this change of season. We all know the feeling of having cold hands and how lovely it is to pull on a warm pair of mitts or gloves.

This fall we collected new and used (but clean) mittens, which were distributed to the homeless in the downtown area along with Tim Hortons/Macdonald's gift cards allowing all those in need to get a warm meal or drink.

We partnered with and couldn't be more grateful for their support. 🥰

Once again, thank you to all who donated their time, mittens and gift cards to serve our most vulnerable this Christmas Season! ❄️☃️




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Say goodbye to, "it's not even December yet ... why are they playing Christmas music?!" ... and hello to December, "Play that song!" 🎉🎄😊

Do you need added entertainment while decorating or driving around doing your shopping?

Click the link in our bio to access our personalized Christmas Spotify Playlist. We've included songs from all over the world!