Tag Archives: Family

Unity Creates Strength

By | December 20, 2012

Recently we drove to Port Au Prince, the capital of Haiti, to take Fr. Dave Pivonka to the airport for his flight back to the U.S. Like all trips to Port-Au-Prince, there are many stops because it takes all day to get there and back so you might as well get all your errands done. Nathaniel was pretty sick and we were able to get him an appointment for the same day. Our day started off at 5am. We met Mami Res, the mother of our priest Fr. Louis, at 5:30am at a gas station on the way to PAP. She

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Missionary’s Risk

By | January 12, 2012

For Christmas, I was able to go home for the first time since our formation year at Covecrest began in September. I was so excited to go home and see my family, and it was great. I have a great relationship with my family, so it was truly a blessing to be able to spend two weeks with them. I got to go to midnight Mass on Christmas Eve with my mom at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis, which was celebrated by Archbishop Sheehan. (Definitely the coolest mass I’ve been to in a while!) I got to

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Family and Prayer

By | October 18, 2011

By: Chuck Taylor We, the Taylor Family, recently moved to Covecrest to become full-time missionaries.  Our daily lives at Covecrest are filled with work, classroom instruction, daily community prayers (morning and evening), our individual prayers, and almost daily mass.   So I guess the first question that would arise is: what is the impact of this new routine on our family?  It certainly takes some getting used to, and we are all still working on that. There are, however, some very rewarding

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Meeting the Family

By | November 9, 2010

 On October 24, Amanda, Pam, and I went to a celebration of sorts in Roermond, a city in the Netherlands. It was a fabulous occasion! Not only was the parish celebrating five years as a Life Teen parish, but an entire family came into the Church. The children were baptized and received their First Communion, the mother was confirmed, and their marriage was blessed by the Church! In addition to that, three teens also received the sacrament of Confirmation. PRAISE GOD!   This parish is also the

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