Author Archives: Paola Flores

LEARNING HOW TO LIVE This month we were blessed with new opportunities to serve, new opportunities to love. The Life Teen missionaries from Covecrest and Arizona as well as some staff members joined Family Missions Company [ http://fmcmissions.com/ ]  on a mission to General Cepeda, Mexico. Upon returning from Mexico the Covecrest crew hosted a family mission in North Georgia. The Mexico mission was abundant in God’s graces. A typical day in General Cepeda was broken down like so, Breakfast

St. Therese & Thanksgiving Break I love living in community. God is teaching me how to love. Not to say that I don’t love, but I feel like God is teaching me new depths of His love. It’s like he says “Ok, your heart has learned hoe to love in this way, and that’s great, now let me teach you love that way.” We just read St Therese’s Story of a Soul, and there’s a part where  her sister, Celine, explains to her how God pours out His graces on each soul equally although to our human perspective

The more I spend time here at Covecrest, diving into scripture and into this rhythm of life that flows out of prayer, the more I am realizing why God has lead me to this holy place. I am prideful. I somehow have managed to make my heart believe that God can love everyone to the fullest, but that love can’t really apply to me. His love is so unfathomable, His sacrifice so great, His mercy so infinite, that my mind can’t wrap itself around that. Come to think of it, why would I need to even wrap my

Thy mercy, my God, is the theme of my song,
the joy of my heart, and the boast of my tongue;
Thy free grace alone, from the first to the last,
hath won my affections, and bound my soul fast. Without Thy sweet mercy I could not live here;
Sin would reduce me to utter despair;
But, through Thy free goodness, my spirits revive,
and He that first made me still keeps me alive. Thy mercy is more than a match for my heart,
which wonders to feel its own hardness depart;
Dissolved by Thy

A picture from LIFT, a northern version of XLT. I will blog about this tomorrow

The Queen of Angels 8th grade retreat took place last week, and it was blessed. The theme was Mission Possible and it was centered around Mark 10:27. The sessions were: God is love, Christian Friendship (guys and girls session), the Mass, Christian Servant Leadership and Commissioning. It was great to see God moving not only in the hearts of the 8th graders but also within the hearts of the retreat team. Some things that stood out for me: -Seeing one of the teens that initially viewed faith as

Today is day seven of our missionary year. There are three different groups of missionaries and each group is stationed in either Arizona, Germany or Georgia. Although we will all be in different locations, we have all come together as one to journey together during our first month of formation. As I mentioned before today is day seven, but it feels like we have been here for weeks because God has already done so much in our hearts. It is amazing to see how close we’ve grown together as a team. One