EDGE RETREAT 2017: Be Not Afraid

October 13-14 we went on an adventure back in time to Be Not Afraid! With the famous words said by Pope St. John Paul II our EDGE ministry really reflected on the reality that it is Jesus that we seek when we want to do something great with our lives! Our retreat sessions help broke down the quote, taking us deeper into the Heart of God... combined with group discussions, recreation time, dance party, Mass, and Eucharistic Adoration our middle schoolers conquered the courage to BE NOT AFRAID!


"It is Jesus in fact that you seek when you DREAM of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the MASKS of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do SOMETHING GREAT with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be grounded down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world MORE HUMAN and more fraternal.” - Pope St. John Paul II