Clare is a longtime Youth Minister at Mary Mother of the Church in St. Louis. She has attended a Steubenville conference every year since 1999! She took some time to answer some of our questions, so take a look at what she shared!
Clare is a longtime Youth Minister at Mary Mother of the Church in St. Louis. She has attended a Steubenville conference every year since 1999! She took some time to answer some of our questions, so take a look at what she shared!
“Scars tell a story. Your scars tell a story. My scars tell a story.”
There are different kinds of scars. Some are physical, visible scars. Others are scars that no one sees.
What are the scars on your heart?
At every Mass we hear the words, “…deliver us from all distress.” The Church understands that we tend to be anxious people, but the Lord doesn’t want us to live in distress. He wants us to rest in Him and be restored.
This afternoon, Fr. Martin used the life of St. Peter to identify four things we tend to focus on that cause us to lose our interior peace and experience distress.
“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.”
– Luke 1:38
It’s sometimes difficult for us to trust people. Maybe we’ve been burned when we’ve trusted someone in the past. So, how do we go about growing in our trust of God? Well, one great way is to look to our Blessed Mother Mary and invite her to pray for us.