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Don’t touch me!

Last year I stumbled across a YouTube video that perfectly summarized my relationship with God at that time. Before I go on, I’ll let you watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKhZzGR5tYU&list=UUj1v8ICk46ras8v1pchqzIA&index=9 Everything about this video was a perfect symbolism of my relationship with Christ! I was that little girl who didn’t want to be touched and Jesus was Max. Even the father in the video perfectly personified God the Father. When I first began my mission year

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Your Call of Duty: To Be Fearless

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Now, this is a challenge! This is a battle that will determine if you are a man or not. Put your controllers down when you enter the world, your schools, your jobs, your friend’s house, the store.

You are in a battlefield. A battle for each and every life that you see. You can’t see your enemies, but you can see what’s at stake. We do face “impossible odds” where everything will be fighting against us. Hordes of media and countless lies will be thrown at you to derail you. This isn’t a life for just anyone, this is the life of a real hero.

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Quit being irrational!

Earlier this month I was blessed to have the opportunity to join the first year missionaries for what would be my second 8-day silent retreat. This retreat was based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and each of us had a spiritual director who met with us everyday to guide us in our prayer and meditations. This year my retreat was a very deep spiritual experience for me, where I personally experienced peace, joy, and the love of God. In addition to these things, I learned a funny little

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I’m like St. Therese!

Yes, like Saint Therese (of Lisieux)! I’m not from France and don’t speak any French. I also didn’t loose my mom at a very young age. I don’t have siblings who entered the convent and I didn’t visit the Pope to ask permission to enter a religious order when I was 16. I’m 24, but hopefully I won’t die this year like she did when she was 24. I’m not famous and I’m not a saint. But there’s at least one thing we both share: we have the same vocation! Don’t be too shocked. I’m not telling you that

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Teetering on the brink

Over the past few months my relationship with the Lord has been a big struggle. I had been feeling very frustrated because I had not been getting any sign of Him being present in my life. Prayer was dead and I had nothing fueling me with the joy I had when I was coaching football at Holy Spirit Preparatory School earlier in the year. So I had this idea creeping into my mind a lot of just packing my bags, going home and not finishing out the rest of this year that I had committed to Life Teen Missions.

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What is mission?

Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, build a family a house. The media portrays all these needs around the world and opens our hearts to charity work, to give generous gifts to help aid these needs. Huge wonderful organizations invite us to go on mission, to a third-world country, and aid the poor and hungry hands-on. It gives us the image of what “mission” is; to donate money, materials, and time to the less fortunate because, we are all “people” and it is unfair to lose all of our properties

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Receiving Christ

As a Catholic, I think the biggest blessing has to be being able to receive Jesus’s body and blood in the Eucharist. Of course I didn’t always see it this way. For me growing up I saw the Eucharist as just another church thing. As I received my first communion I learned more that this was Jesus. But I am a simple boy, and there was no way I could wrap my head around the fact that this was Christ. Now, I didn’t have an amazing experience when I first realized that Jesus was in the Eucharist, but I

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Fighting for Vulnerability

I hate sharing. I hate being open. I hate talking about my feelings. I hate being vulnerable. Today, at daily Mass, Christ showed me something. As I sat in the church for a few moments before Mass started, the priest came out to prepare everything. When he opened the tabernacle to count the hosts, I bowed my head because, as I thought to myself then, Jesus was exposed. After I thought that, I started to think about what it really means to be exposed. When we are in adoration of the Blessed

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Occupy This Heart

I have a huge heart.  Ninety percent of the time, this is hugely inconvenient. It’s inconvenient to cry in a movie that no one else seems to find quite as tear-worthy.  It’s inconvenient to cry when you imagine the gruesome death of the mouse that’s been living in your home when your housemates think you’re crazy for caring so much about the sufferings of a rodent.  It’s inconvenient to feel so much for people you hardly know—to hurt with them and for them, and to embrace their

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I Am Not Leaving.

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Then I thought, “This is for me.” Isn’t this what I long to hear from our Father in heaven “I will never leave you”? Don’t our hearts burn when we read the promise in scripture that God will be with us, He will never leave us, He will never forget us, He will never abandon us.

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