I am a Missionary. I’ve committed to two years being a missionary with Life Teen Missions. For me that meant leaving my home country of Germany again and moving to the middle of nowhere, to a place called Covecrest. I am blessed to live in a Catholic community and to be able to serve our community. One of the things we do is meeting people from our neighborhood. We just knock on their doors and talk with them. Often they are a bit lonely or they can’t leave their homes because they have

I had been feeling run down recently and tired from our work and frustrated in prayer, I grew anxious and irritable. I couldn’t focus on anything for very long and I found myself pushing God away. So, I decided to go back to the basics: God is love and I am His beloved. A prayer I often hear in my heart is “I am yours and you are mine.” It’s Jesus seeking to have my whole heart. In doing work projects and retreats and searching for comfort in them I lost my place of comfort in God. I lost my union

I hear that all the time. As a missionary with Life Teen, I am blessed to be on retreat almost every weekend. No matter what type of retreat I go on, one of the most powerful moments of every weekend is watching people who have not be to confession in years finally go. Just last week, I met a girl who told me it had been years since she had been to the sacrament. She told me how nervous she was, how she didn’t remember what to say. With a little encouragement, she slowly walked up to a priest

Lent is just a few days away, or maybe by the time you read this blog it’s already begun. Nonetheless, maybe the temptation of the thing your fasting from is really eating at you. Suddenly you see chocolate popping up every where you go! This year for Lent I decided to give up my bed. I am so attached to that incredibly comfy piece of plastic, that it’s mildly ridiculous. I struggle every morning to remove the warm blankets, and peal out of bed to start my day. Then one morning I received an

I love Life Teen’s new theme of Fearless. I feel like it was made perfectly for me for where my prayer has been for the last few months. The Lord has been calling me out of fear, but even more than that, He has been calling me to a greater love and trust. One day in formation a few weeks ago, we talked about fear, and the opposite of fear is not courage, but love. As Sacred Scripture says, “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who

As a missionary, prayer is a part of my everyday life. I wake up every morning and do a holy hour in front of the Eucharist, and then I pray Liturgy of the Hours with the community here. I even go to Mass several times a week. But after going on an eight day silent retreat, when all I did was pray, I have been thinking more and more about what I do in prayer. I’ve come to the realization that I don’t always pray in prayer. I often find myself sitting in the chapel, quietly reflecting on