There is a great event happening once a month where young people come together to have an intimate encounter with the Lord in Eucharistic Adoration & Confession. The event is called the Summit and it is put on by Catholic Christian Outreach. We are a university student [...]
Some choices are easy, some choices are hard, and some choices we don’t really know how to make. In the summer of 2008 I went to World Youth Day Australia with CCO. This was an easy choice. I thought it was going to be a fun pilgrimage to the land down [...]
CCO will put on a social about once a month so stay tuned to find out about the next social! [...]
Have you ever known a child that seems to break every single rule they don’t know and when you tell them the rules, they always find some way to break it again by using a loophole? Well unfortunately that was me. Between turning a hairspray can into a flame thrower to [...]
******* Estimated reading time 2 minutes ********* Christ has always been a part of my life, but He hasn’t always been the centre of it. As I was growing up, faith was an important aspect of my family’s life. We attended Church and I was involved in a Catholic [...]
*******Estimated reading time 2-3 minutes********* I think almost everyone experiences doubts about God and faith at some point in their life. When I was in my teens the doubts I struggled with shook my faith to the core. Even though I had grown up in a family that really practiced [...]
**************Estimated reading time 2-3 Minutes************ What is the point of being Catholic? What’s the point of going to mass, of going to the sacraments? What’s the point of being a good person? We’re all going to die anyways. Do we just cease to exist? And all the time and effort [...]
*** Estimated reading time 1-2 minutes*** When I was sixteen years old I thought I knew who I would marry… but at such a young age, I didn’t [...]
**Estimated reading time 3-4 minutes** When I was seventeen, I converted to Catholicism. I am the only Catholic in my family; I am the only Christian. I choose Catholicism; because it gave me something to live for, a community and I really felt Christ’s Love. I went to Mass every week and Confession [...]
My journey began at my baptism. I was baptized as a baby but my faith was a choice that my parents made. I went to church every Sunday with my family and did all the right things like being involved in altar serving, choir, and youth group. Being Catholic was just [...]