Sisterhood 101: COVID-19 Edition

SISTERHOOD – for young women on Youth Mission Team, this word is important. Sisterhood is central to the team experience; your hood is who you live with, who you pray with, who you evangelise with and who you do life with on the crazy adventure that is YMT. It is one of team’s greatest gifts

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Laura van der Linden
Three Saints You Need Right Now and Why

Why is this happening? How will I survive without seeing my friends? What am I supposed to do until this is over? These are questions you’ve probably asked yourself a thousand times. It’s true, we live in difficult times. The Coronavirus has disrupted, even devastated our everyday lives.

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Sebastian Vorster
Breathe In. Breathe Out.

Everyone’s lives are being stripped back in this slowdown, and the life of a teamie has been no exception. In the absence of ministries, schools, regular youth groups, and even of our locations and each other’s physical presence, our missionary lives in isolation have boiled down to their truest essence; lifestyle! I begin each day with…

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Antoinette Collins
Making the Most out of Online Mass

So the world’s a bit topsy turvy at the moment, and while this blog was originally supposed to be about how to get the most out of Mass, we’ve all had to channel our inner Bear Grylls and improvise, adapt and overcome what’s been thrown at us. We’re pretty lucky that so many parishes and diocese have been able to set up online Masses

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Brigid Cooney
Finding the Way in the Wilderness

Public Masses suspended, churches closed, the footy season paused, gigs cancelled, weddings postponed, borders closed, flights stopped, even the toilet paper is gone.

Have you ever seen anything like it?

Coronavirus is changing our lives in ways that seemed unimaginable months, even weeks ago…

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Josh Whicker MGL
Building a Good Prayer Life

If you were to rate your relationship with God out of 10, what would it be? And if it could be anything out of 10, what would you want it to be?

For those of you who, like me, would like to bump up your score by a number or two, the secret to having a 10/10 relationship with God is to build a good prayer life.

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Eilidh Direen
We Need to Talk

When I was in high school I had a huge falling out with my best friend. It was very ugly, I was hurt and angry and had no idea how to deal with it. The only response I knew was to run away, so I proceeded to ignore my once BFF and just decided to...

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Bridget Haywood