#MKCYC14 & 1 year blogaversary & i love being an EMHC

Hello all, I am so excited to say that I am writing this post from my new desk which is one of the many products of this weekend! I am also excited to say that this is roughly the year anniversary of this blog!!! Granted, I took about four or five months off but it still counts okay... I said this in my last post (which can be found here) but my weekend at the Dallas Catholic Youth Conference was what made me decide to start blogging. I also mentioned that my parish cancelled our trip to DCYC this year. My friend, Kassidy, and I have been looking forward to DCYC all year so we decided to throw our own conference to substitute for DCYC. We called it "Meredith & Kassidy's Catholic Youth Conference" here's a little recap for ya....

Saturday: 

• Dinner at Canes 
• Jamba Juice aka my second home
• Michael's to get supplies to make shirts 
• Designing and making MKCYC shirts (took about 3 hours, but they look great)
• Watching the Missoula Children's Theater production of The Jungle Book  we did probably 7 or 8 years ago. The DVD started skipping on our scene together but it was hilarious none the less. PS Kassi played young Mowgli because she looks like him & I played a cobra. 
• Deep Jesus talks 
• Watching Miranda Sings videos until we fell asleep. This is also the year anniversary of when we fell in love (not lebanese) with Miranda

Sunday

• Impromptu trip to Ikea with my parents 
• Getting Ikea's "twine for your convenience" and each holding an end so that we wouldn't get separated
• Smash Burger 
• Assembling my desk, but eventually getting frustrated 
• Mass! I EMHC-ed today so we were really early
• Signed up for the St. Ann Carnival (September 5-7 btw) come see us in Kiddy Land on Friday the 5th!!!

Although we both would have been thrilled to go to DCYC, MKCYC was the only other way I would have wanted to spend this weekend! I am so incredibly blessed to have a friend like Kassidy. 

We decided the verse for the weekend was 1 Thessalonians 5:18, which says "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" Basically, even though we weren't happy with not going to DCYC, we made the best of our circumstance and are both so thankful for the weekend God gave us instead. 

As the title says, I love being an EMHC which by the way, stands for Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion. So I get to give communion at Mass. I've been pretty blessed with the masses I've gotten to serve at this far. I served on the Solemnity of Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ or, the Feast of Corpus Christi, which is an entire mass celebrating the Eucharist. All of the readings were about it and the homily too so I was pumped to get to give the Eucharist to a group of people who were so in awe of it already. Again today, the Gospel told the story of when Jesus multiplied five loaves of bread and two fish to feed a ton of people and had 12 baskets left over and the readings talked about being fed by the Bread of Life. Today I actually started shaking during communion, knowing that I was holding Jesus in my hand and allowing so many people to receive Him! 

Here are some pictures from MKCYC...

post Churchidy Church

low quality pic of us miranding with our shirts

jamba juice

Pope Francis made an appearance!!!!

our tweets made it to DCYC even though we didn't!!! #famus

my new desk!!! one day there will be MacBook there... hint hint parents



I love you all dearly and am so grateful that you take the time to read my ramblings. Happy one year! 

 In His Name, 

Meredith 

questions, comments or prayer requests? Feel free to email me: meredithmunro@icloud.com 

 

**PRAYER REQUESTS** 

Those who did attend DCYC this weekend!

Kassidy & her classmates as they start school this week!

HEY!!!!!! YOU SHOULD GO LISTEN TO HILLSONG ZION ACOUSTIC SESSIONS! I HAVE HAD IT ON REPLAY ALLLLLL DAY!