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Covecrest is more than a retreat center and summer camp. Covecrest is a community of Catholics committed to transforming teens, transforming parishes, and transforming culture. Will you join us?
Hidden Lake is home to an incredible Catholic community, gorgeous views, welcoming meeting spaces and so much more. Dedicated to leading teens closer to Christ, we hope you'll be welcomed home to Hidden Lake soon.
The Steubenville Youth Conferences, an outreach of Franciscan University of Steubenville, are a series of 24 conferences across North America that help teens encounter the love of Christ every summer. Each summer, Life Teen hosts several Steubenville Youth Conferences with the hopes of strengthening and inspiring teens and youth groups in their collective journeys to Christ.
We are offered a future full of hope. That future, however, will not simply arrive at our doorstep. We must co-labor with Christ as he speaks hope into this world. A future of hope starts with the youth of today. They are tomorrow’s prophets and apostles, developers and doctors, teachers and preachers, athletes and artists, mystics and martyrs. How they are shaped today will be how they shape tomorrow.
There are many women who are a vital part of salvation history and their stories are critical parts of Sacred Scripture. This scriptural devotion will inspire young women to raise their heads along with Mary, Martha, Lydia, and Esther and look into the eyes of Jesus, the God who loves deeply and perfectly.
You are going to make thousands of decisions today and one of them might change your life. Are you confident that what you want and what God want are the same thing? Don’t leave it up to chance - leave it in the hands of the Holy Spirit.
Edge helps middle schoolers unleash who they were created to be, in Christ.
Life Teen strengthens our teens' Catholic identity, while rooting them firmly in Christ and in His Church.
by Sophia Swinford
But she realized that it was her littleness and child-like faith that made her precious to God, and so it was precious to her, too.
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by Rachel Penate
In that moment, I was reminded that God is not going to abandon us in the darkness, but will be our light to guide us through that darkness.
by Sarah McMahon
Your vocation, your relationships, and your friendships will not work unless you learn how to love through sacrifice.
by Dillon Duke
I love God and I also love football. You might be able to see why Sundays are, in my opinion, the absolute best day of the week.
The mysterious feeling that kept flooding my heart was femininity.
by Patricia Moes
Before an exam, at the end of the day, whenever the world seemed to spin a little too fast… “Jesus, I trust in you. Jesus, I trust in you. Jesus, I trust in you.”
by Alison Blanchet
Voting is described as “morally obligatory” – that’s pretty serious.
by Caitlin Sica
One afternoon, my younger brother took a picture of the two of us. When I saw it I asked him to delete it because I looked “fat.”
by Dom Quaglia
I knew he was asking for money, but I said “No, I’m sorry” and kept walking.
by Christina Mead
He is not safe… but he is good. The way those words encapsulate the mystery of God’s love is so powerful to me.
