Every soul is thirsting for Christ, yearning for His love. When we fall in love with Christ, we want to please Him. For many, that is easier to say than do. How do we please God and discern His will? How can we use our talents to serve God? Katie begins to answer these questions in this afternoon’s workshop.

All for Him

What everything ultimately comes down to is simply living with God’s purpose in mind. We must have the courage to ask ourselves if what we are doing would please God. If not, we have to go even further to gather the courage to stop doing it.

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We all long for peace. Yet we often times look for peace in the wrong places and in the wrong ways. We think that we can quench our thirsts in other people and other things. Fr. Chris Martin called us to recognize the ways in which we forget that God really is the one who brings us peace and can quench our thirst. He encouraged us to identify these ways that we have fallen short of loving God, our family and friends, and ourselves and to ask for forgiveness in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

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As you may know, SteubySTL is right around the corner. You can better prepare yourself by reflectively asking “What am I bringing to Steubenville?”
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Limitless love. It’s been six months since we focused on this theme at Steubenville 2015. Are your actions demonstrating that the limitless love of God is the most important thing in your life? Or, rather, is your life reflecting that limited love of the world? Here are three ways to tell if your focus is more on seeking worldly love instead of God’s love.
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The Church opened a door on Tuesday. I know what you’re thinking. Cool, Church, don’t you do that every day? How else am I supposed to get in there? I mean, when I’m late for Mass every other Sunday (I swear I try to be a good Catholic), I even open the door myself. “Aha!” says the Church, “Bet you can’t open THIS door…”

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