Fr. Pierre Toussaint, C.F.R.
My name is Br. Pierre Toussaint. I’m twenty-five years old and I’m originally from Long Island, New York. I come from a small family I have one sister who is eleven years older than me and both my mom and dad still live in New York. As a kid growing up, I remember going to […]
Sr. Zelie Maria Louis, S.V.
My name is Elizabeth, and I am a triplet (one sister, Lauren, and one brother, Michael). We grew up in Waterloo, Iowa with three older half-siblings and my two loving parents. We went to Mass every Sunday and attended Catholic school from preschool through high school. I found out about abortion when I was a […]
Kami Beliard
My name is Kami Beliard and I grew up in South Florida in a large extended Haitian family. Faith was always present in and around my upbringing but it never penetrated my heart until my time in college. I studied Development Psychology at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Early on, as a freshman, I […]
Stephen Kurt
The Church is my home. She always has been, and she always will be. There is a comfort that the Church brings me. She has always been there for the high moments in my life and difficult times. Being in the Church has allowed me to learn, lead, and discover the truth about the world […]
Alexander McDougall
I’m both thrilled and nervous to be writing this, but I will do my best to articulate a bit of my life thus far and how Our Good God has led me to pursue a vocation. I was born on March 25, 2001, in Ft. Collins, Colorado. I was born in Pearland, a city outside […]
Lisa Nguyễn
I was having a conversation with my brother and he made a comment about how he thought that I would be happy as a Sister. That comment planted a seed in my heart, so I started to discern religious life. By this time, I had recently graduated from university and was given a promotion at […]
Jacob Moylan
From the time my 9th-grade classmates used their newfound knowledge of world history to strike at the basis of my Catholic faith, I found myself wanting for a deeper understanding of God’s role in our world. From then on over the years of personally challenging the faith, I have found only more reason to believe […]
Fr. Matthew Pajor, SCh
My name is Matthew Pajor. I was born in 1996 in Chicago to Jadwiga and Bogdan Pajor, immigrants from Poland. My dad arrived in the United States in 1987, and my mom followed him in 1992. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs where faith was a central part of my upbringing. I was baptized […]
Sarah Yurgelaitis
My name is Sarah Yurgelaitis. I am a cradle Catholic and I have always loved my Faith, although for many years it was more in my head and an ideology or a moral code rather than in my heart as a relationship with a Person as it is meant to be. My mom was not […]
Mary Ann Christina Hastie
I was not raised Catholic and my parents were both of non-practicing Protestant backgrounds. When I was a very small child I would attend a Seventh Day Adventist Church with my Grandma. By the time I was six, Grandma became too frail to bring me to Church so I stopped going with her, but I […]