Tag Archives: discernment

My Way or the Lord’s Way?

By | May 10, 2012

I wish the Lord would just come out and blatantly shout out to me what it is that He wants me to do. I’m sure I’m not the only one that would really appreciate something like that. Coming into this mission year here at Covecrest, I was thinking that it was going to be a one-year commitment for sure, but I wouldn’t totally shut the Lord out if He had other plans for me. Sure enough, you give Him a little space to work with and He will start constructing something the size of the Empire State

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Imitating St. Joseph

By | January 13, 2012

The year 2011 started well, midnight Mass with my Cardinal Archbishop at St. Leonard Church in the North End of Boston. This was a great way to start off what would be an eventful year. I entered the year with an important decision: when would I propose to my girlfriend, Anna? With lots of prayer, I decided on a date to pop the question that would forever change my life: March 6th, it’s the feast of her confirmation saint so I figured that would help me out a little. Thankfully, she said yes!

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Future Full of Hope

By | July 17, 2011

I’m learning over and over again, that my life is most fruitful when I just spend time with the Lord. This past week, our mission community traveled to the countryside of England, near London. We arrived on Wednesday evening, the 6th of July, at the SPEC center, a Catholic retreat center. It was a time to visit one of our missionary sisters, Kristin, who had started serving there earlier this year; additionally, we got a feel for God’s mission in the UK. Most of our time was spent on the grounds

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My Journey Into Missions Pt. I

By | December 5, 2010

I’m not growing into the man I thought I would be 4 years ago. I had plans like any other freshman in college. And, like any of those freshmen, they changed 5,345 times each week…

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Loving the Giver Before the Gift

By | April 14, 2010

It’s been suggested that we missionaries create a pocket sized dictionary of all the words and phrases we throw around throughout the year. It’s actually a pretty legitimate idea. There is a whole other language within the community, a language that may often mean something completely different to an objective observer…

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