Author Archives: Jon Hibbeler

“We are not giving up a year of our Lives, We are giving up our Lives.”

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

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Omnia vincit amor ” The Story of Red”

Dear Life Teen Community, I have been inspired for some time now to do a video blog about another divine appointment that we here in Mesa experienced. I felt like I could express it better on video than I could on a blog. Here is the link! Hopefully more blogs to come! Omnia Vincit Amor + JMJ, Jon

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1306- You make Beautiful Things

A couple of weeks ago, we here in Mesa had a day off – or so we thought. After meeting for dinner with our friend Ashley Montage from ASU, we went to ASU Newman center’s basement where we had Theology Underground. After it was over, Ashley dropped us off at our 12 passenger van (I know we ride in style). We started to pull out of the the parking lot and I turned to Nick and said, “What is that guy doing?” We were sitting at a red light waiting to turn. Next to the intersection was a man hunched

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PRAISE THE ONE WHO PAID MY DEBT AND RAISED THIS LIFE UP FROM THE DEAD!

Without the crucifixion we would not have the Resurrection.This year last Holy Week I spent at Covecrest celebrating Easter with my parents, who drove down from St. Louis, and about 100 other people- including missionaries their families and friends. During the week I meditated on the Passion story. Let me share with you a tiny bit. After braking bread with the twelve disciples but before Judas betrayed Jesus and the crucifixion, Jesus knows what is going to happen to him. He gets to the

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SHH!!!! We are on silent retreat!

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

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Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. -little Therese

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

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Holy hour thought

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

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Do you dream of happiness?

Do you dream of happiness? Going home for the holidays and trying to spread the love of Christ is actually harder than it sounds. Many times during our Christmas break, I felt that I failed to love. I just didn’t understand how I could love people that I don’t even know more than my own family and friends at times. I have come to realize that we have a different idea of happiness than the world. For example, I desire to strive towards sainthood – for my being to radiate His love for His people.

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I Lay down ________

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

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Come AWAKE!!!

COME AWAKE!! Not only a line from a Matt Maher song, but also the name of an Edge Retreat that we helped out at Tepeyac this weekend. Let’s rewind back to Friday morning when we were staining the newly built paintball building for a work project. Haha funny story! So things you shouldn’t do when painting the top half of the shed: 1. Don’t use a cheap ladder that has plastic feet on the bottom. 2. Don’t use the wrong angle when first climbing the ladder. If you do these things, this awesome ladder

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