If you stop by the bookstore, you may be lucky enough to encounter Patti Anderson, one of the smiling volunteers helping to sell all of the Pope paraphernalia and Marian merchandise.

When she is not ringing up graphic tees at Steubystl, Patti supports the Daughters of St. Paul as a volunteer at the Pauline Books & Media Bookstore in Crestwood, MO. Apparently, volunteering at bookstores is her thing!

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They say it takes a village to raise a child, and that may be true, but I can tell you for sure that it takes a village to put on a Steubenville youth conference.

Every weekend, 140-ish staff members and volunteers begin their service to God’s kids at SteubySTL by converging on O’Reilly Catholic Student Center at 10 am on Friday morning, as we did this morning. We gather to pray before we get to work.

Our church teaches that the Eucharist is the “source and summit” of our faith, which means that it is the most powerful thing we can experience (because we receive Jesus) and it is also the point from which all of our inspiration and energy flows. So, we began our conference with Mass.

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