Author Archives: Kaitlin Byrne

Sorry it has taken me so long to write about Mexico.  I have been processing all the ways God worked and is continuing to work through my experience in Mexico.  I think the best way to explain how huge God is and how present He was to us is to tell you a story of one of the nights we had there.  Every evening all the missionaries would get into their rancho groups and we would head out from the missionary house to a rancho for prayer services.  (A rancho is kind of like a little town maybe with

Overwhelmed is the only word and feeling I know to describe the way I am feeling about the amount of support we have received for the mission to Mexico in three days.  I am mostly an extrovert so receiving all this support has truly made me ten times more excited about the mission then I was before. The outpouring of not only monetary donations but clothing, sheets, blankets, shoes, diapers, etc.  have been piling into the lobby.  I have seen people truly giving from poverty so they can have a

I have constanly struggled with the feeling that my prayers are insincere. I sometimes feel I am saying all the wrong things that maybe God does not really want to hear or I word things incorrectly.  Silly I know but I just want the feeling of sincerity not just babble about needs, wants, struggles, etc. I want to grow deeper in my conversations with God. For the past 25 days the LifeTeen community has been praying St. Louis Marie De Monfort’s Total Consecration of Jesus through Mary.  Wow talk

“We were meant to embrace, not just accept it.”-Needtobreathe As humans I feel we so often just accept things.  We do not question or try to learn more for a better understanding.  Recently I have been noticing this in my own life as a woman, a christian, and even more as a Catholic. Example, I accept the truth that Jesus died on the cross to save me from my sins when I should really be embracing the fact that His death was for me because God is love and He wants to give that love fully to me.

In formation we are reading the Return of the Prodigal Son, an amazing book that we are diving into and discussing how we each can relate to the Younger brother, older brother, father, and bystanders of the story and how we grow closer to God through the realization of the struggles we face in these characters.  On the front cover of the book is Rembrant’s painting of the moment when the son returns to his father begging to be his servant because he is unworthy of being his son.  How many times

We are currently in the middle of running our first retreat as the seven of us. Today was the first day and as of right now I am praying even harder then before for these kids. Our theme is “Set Free” meaning that through a relationship with God we can be set free from the burdens that weigh us down. We really came to the theme all in prayer because originally the theme was Mission Possible but we just felt that things needed to be changed. St. Mary’s is only a group of 25 kids so we are in one of