10th Anniversary Countdown: 2016

Answers from yesterday:
2017 Photo #1: Sr. Petra (then Sara Lynn), prays at the Sea of Galilee during our pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This particular location is the place of the calling of the first apostles. At the time, Sr. Petra had no idea that she would be named after St. Peter, one of the apostles who was called by Jesus at this spot!
2017 Photo #2: At a different "Sea" a bit closer to home...posing on a huge piece of driftwood at Mentor Headlands Beach at Lake Erie, during some Bright Week recreation--the week following Pascha (Easter).

Countdown, day 8! Remembering the year 2016.

2016 Photo #1

2016 Photo #2

 "'If you knew the gift of God!' [John 4:10]. The wonder of prayer is revealed beside the well where we come seeking water: there, Christ comes to meet every human being. It is He Who first seeks us and asks us for a drink. Jesus thirsts; His asking arises from the depths of God’s desire for us. Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God’s thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for Him."
--Catechism of the Catholic Church 2560 (Quote submitted by Mother Theodora)