Author Archives: Kaitlin Byrne

This past weekend the missionary girls were so blessed to help put on a retreat for St. Monica’s Life Teen girls.  I have been sitting here for the last ten minutes trying to figure out what to say about how absolutely amazing this weekend was but I have no words.  There were so many miracles and movements of the Holy Spirit that I was able to be a witness too that I will never forget.  JJ told me that I need to just pick on highlight and write about it. So that is what I am going to do. The

I am studying/ reading through Deuteronomy. I have been wanting to get into the Old Testament and I felt called to start here. It’s amazing to me how thousands of years later I can still relate this book to my life and the world we are living in today. Moses’ people were called out of Egypt  in order to be blessed by God and then sent into new lands to testify, proclaim God’s name, to honor Him above all things and to not make pagan idols of animals or manly statues. But how often do we see that

Okay so as you know we have been teaching each other in our formation classes. Yesterday Paul taught about evangelization (the Church’s mission) but instead of teaching he sent us out! We were to go to Clayton to encounter and pray with people. Paola and I were partners and the whole way down the mountain we were just asking God for boldness and for divine appointments. We went first to the Family Dollar where we met Sarah. She is probably 90 years old and was buying fake flowers to make arrangements

The days leading up to lent were becoming fewer and fewer and I still had no idea what to do for Lent this year. There are the usual sacrifices of sweets and soda but conviction of the love God has for us calls me to more. Last year for Lent I was in Spain studying abroad. Those forty days were probably the most beautiful of my life. I began to go on dates with God (walks in the parks, coffee, etc.). I read His Word more. I went on a pilgrimage to Fatima, walking 20miles through the beautiful countryside

Wow so many things have been happening here at Covecrest for the missionaries.  We had the youth ministers retreat, confirmation retreat, we went and visited the 8th grade classes we put retreats on for earlier this year, and we have begun to teach ourselves the Core Values.  Mark taught us about Love on Wednesday and Sara taught us today about Eucharistic Spirituality.  God really spoke through them and gave all of us a new incite on how God is Love and how we are called as Catholics to Be

When the missionaries traveled to Mexico we went on a pilgrimage to Saltillo.  In Saltillo there is a chapel that the local people call “The Miracle Chapel”.  When you go to the miracle chapel you pray for a specific miracle.  Then you buy this little charm and when God grants you the request of your prayer, you send the charm back.  Now these charms are not bigger then your finger nail.  In the chapel it creates this GIANT Alpha and Omega sign on the altar made out of millions of these charms

Before I began the 8 day silent retreat I was really struggling with how distant I felt from God.  It was not a discouraging feeling more like “UGH aren’t I any closer to you yet.” I felt like I was at the starting line and still had 26.1 miles to go.  I know faith and growth are a life long process but I thought after 22 years I might be reaching the first mile or at least over the starting line but little did I know that I was RIGHT where I needed to be because Jesus was about to reveal Himself