Katie's prayer: Audio Adrenaline's "Good People"

Cause pretty are the feet of those who bring the good news

I actually quoted the Bible verse the above line comes from twice this past Sunday. Once during Confirmation. Once during Youth Group. The Confirmation session was on the “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.” At the end of this session, the kids think of one person in their life that needs God. They write this person’s name on a rock. They are then challenged to invite this person to Mass with them, using the rock as a reminder to do so. This is the second time I’ve done this session, and for the second time, I put the same person - my sister. At youth group, we talked about being a witness. There were like 9 steps to being a good witness and things to do. One of the last steps was to witness to your family - again, couldn’t help but think of my sister.

My sister was the one who really helped me with my faith life. She started attending lifeteen and pressured me every week to go with her. Eventually, I gave in and went; had fun and kept coming back. My faith life would be pretty much nonexistent without her. Shortly afterwards, she started traveling down a not so good path. A path that would lead her away from the Catholic Church and (I believe) away from faith in general. She’s become an E&C Catholic (Easter and Christmas). Last year, she didn’t go to Easter or Christmas Mass with us - so I don’t think she can even be classified as an E&C Catholic anymore. It depresses me.

So, like I said, I put her on my rock, again. Last time, I never got around to asking her to Mass. Good reasons. She’s 4 hours away, it’s kinda hard. I’ll just wait until I get back home. Then I forget. She’s coming here soon, I’ll just forcibly take her then. She ends up not coming. While I was writing her name, and later in the night when we were praying for our people, I became determined to not fail this time. Who cares if she’s 4 hours away. That just means she can’t go to Mass with me. I can still ask her. I can still explain to her the pain it causes me to see her fall away like she has.

Tonight, my prayer is for my sister.