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No more double life By Zach

        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 [...]

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“Wasn’t enough to experience this fire alone” by Sarah Kotyk

      ******* 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 [...]

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I stay firm by Eric Filion

        *******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 [...]

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What is the point? By Daniel Joosten

    **************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 [...]

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“LET GO” by Christine Kleiboer

                                                    *** 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 [...]

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Just had to turn the knob by Ben Turland

    **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 [...]

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Beauty in my imperfection by Breanne Swarbrick

        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 [...]

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Growing Up by Luke Hergott

              You know how children sometimes get the general idea of something, but don’t really get the application of it? Like they know that pets need food, but don’t understand that you can’t feed fish ten times a day. Until recently, this is kind of what my faith was [...]

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Searching for an Adventure- Eloisa Tamondong

    I live a fun life. I always have searched for a sense of adventure and excitement. As a teenager, this search for fun led me to a partying lifestyle. At the same time, I pushed God out my life, stopped going to Church and saw no relevance of any of it in my [...]

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