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Be missionary!
Something that I hear often is what a great person I am for being a missionary in Haiti. I think people admire the thought of someone temporarily giving up their life in the U.S. to go to some poor foreign country to feed the hungry and clothe the naked even though our mission here is to bring people, specifically teenagers, to Christ.
We do get to feed the hungry, give people newer clothes, take care of their medical needs, but we are mainly loving them and sharing the faith with them. We are
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Do you love me?
I was struck with this Gospel the other day, where Jesus asks Peter: "Simon son of John, Do you love me?" three times. Peter responds affirming, "Yes," every time. (Jn 21:15-17)
That brought me to the scene where Jesus says to Peter: "Before the cock crows you will deny me three times." So it makes sense that Jesus asks Peter three times, not necessarily because three times was needed to forgive Peter but to let Peter know that it's part of His will.
In a sense Jesus was being punny, yes punny,
The War
I had a dream a few nights ago that was so vivid and terrifying it ingrained itself in my heart and it breaks because of it. In this dream I was looking at this screen of a computer and I could see people from all over watching the same thing. On screen people, men and women were changing themselves surgically, mutilating themselves in the name of pleasure and self desire. No one seemed to be disgusted or care about their well being, they all looked awful almost demonic in a way. It didn’t stop
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I’m Not Worthy
“Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.”
This is a prayer every practicing catholic should recognize right away. It’s a prayer we pray once a week at Mass, or more often for those who go to daily Mass… But like many of the prayers we recite, do we really PRAY it?
Recently, I found myself really praying this prayer in the Mass… well, sort of. For the past year, maybe longer, every time I went to mass and we got to
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Salesman for Jesus
Businesses highlight the "good" parts of their product when they are advertising. Shouldn't we also highlight the "good" parts of our faith? Check out this podcast on Evangelization in the modern world.
Click Here to Listen to the Podcast - "Salesman for Jesus"
You can also follow the Houston Mission podcast on iTunes by searching "Life Teen Missions Houston" in the iTunes podcast store.
I’m Sinking
Do you ever feel like you’re sinking and can’t rise to the surface? I know I do, and I was praying about Gods help in these times. I really got to think about it, and I think I get it now. We’re sunk into our troubles, doubts, fears, and sins. If you think about it visually that is the sea and Christ is above us on a boat. He’s found the spot we’re we have sunk into despair. All we have to do is swim up to him and to our safety. Sounds simple right? That’s because it is, well anyway it
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Struggling to Accept
I just purchased "Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska" and HOLY COW!
Gosh her life is really really REALLY cool. I've only been flipping through a bit of her diary these past few days in prayer but she just has these one liners that hit a place in my heart that really connects with me, a place where God is working right now.
In this section she is explaining how she has known since she was SEVEN that she was being called to the religious life...EXCUSE ME...SEVEN?! I don't even think I knew
Do You Want to Work for the Gospel?
“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few. . .”
This is the beginning of one of my favorite scriptures. Even though I love this scripture, it can also be difficult and challenging. It saddens me because I have seen the reality that the “laborers for the harvest” (Christians who are willing to live and preach the Gospel) are few in the world. The laborers are few in Haiti, the laborers are few in Europe, but the laborers may also be few in your own school, or your own home or
“Is This Real Life?”
“Is this real life?” I thought to myself as a drove down the road away from the Church. I had a pyx in the pocket of my dark purple button down Sunday shirt. I’ve got praise music on the radio but a Cee-Lo song crosses my mind, “I guess the pyx in my pocket wasn’t enough, I got Jesus too, Jesus too!”
Eucharistic Visitation Ministry
Sunday, May 5th was my first time participating in the Eucharistic Visitation ministry for our Church and I’ve never been so humbled and
The Blessed Life
There’s the good life, the rich life, a bad life, heck even that show "The Buried Life"; but I’ve found one even better. It’s the blessed life. A life so beautifully sweet, I kneel at the ground of Christ’s saving feet. A life so simple, it has let me realize my blessings are ample. That my soul is filled with the glory, from the greatest never ending love story.
My life is blessed. I know that I God is with me. Every time I fall, I am picked right back up again, all for His glory.
