Author Archives: Jon Hibbeler

Lately I have been diving into the “Rule of Life” more and more. If you didn’t know, we as missionaries live by a rule of life. The purpose of this rule of life is to root our lives in Christ.  A life in Christ calls for dying to self and living in the Spirit.  St. Paul exhorts us to put on the Lord Christ Jesus.  Obedience to this rule of life leads us to form certain Christ-like habits transforming us into witnesses of the Gospel regardless of our age, location, or state in life.Sounds

When I first heard about the 8 day silent retreat, I got scared. Honestly, I thought to myself, “They are going to leave me alone with my crazy thoughts by myself for 8 days!!??” In the words of St. Therese “AH!” There we were on Feb 18 tucked away in the snow covered mountains of Camp Tepeyac in Prescott, AZ. That night we started our silence. I was only allowed to talk to two people: God and my spiritual director named “Word” - Edward actually.  The 8-day retreat was based off of spiritual

These last couple of weeks I have been thinking about our mission and asking myself what makes someone a missionary? What are we doing as missionaries in the suburbs of Phoenix?  These are a bunch of good questions. Since Mexico I have felt that there has been a change in my heart.  I have been wanting to take our mission to the streets of downtown Phoenix to be with and minister to the poor and desolate. I felt that that it was hard to be missionary working in the National Life Teen office working

I was siting in the Adoration chapel on Monday night and it brought back a memory from a couple of weeks ago.  It was a Saturday and I was in the chapel for holy hour.  A man of Indian descent walked into the chapel and looked very troubled.  He came in so fast – unlike most people.  Once he was in the chapel, he kneeled down right in front of Jesus on a kneeler. After about five minutes, I started to hear this man begin to weep.  As his cries grew louder and louder it was almost distracting

So recently I had the great pleasure of getting to know some of the GREAT people over at Chandler Regional Medical Center.At this time I would like to give a shout out to my two Nurses Shannon & Travis. I will write the next paragraph as if it were a News report! {get excited} Last Saturday night Jon Hibbeler was rushed to the hospital in Erin Kleckner’s 2001 volkswagen Passat. Suffering from internal bleeding Jon experienced a good amount of blood loss. After being submitted into the ER Jon