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CTC COMMUNITY is a Private Association of Christ's Faithful in the Archdiocese of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad with a Mission Outreach in the island of Curacao

The Companions of the Transfigured Christ (CTC) is a registered NGO, recognised as a private association of Christ's faithful in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain. The 18 Covenant Members and 2 Transfiguration Brothers that make up CTC live either in Trinidad or in Curacao at present. CTC was founded on the 6th of August in the jubilee year of 2000 by Kyle Dardaine, Shad Seaton, and Mikkel Trestrail. The community is involved in ministry to primarily men and their families, psychospiritual work with individuals and groups, retreat work, preaching and teaching, and youth and young adult ministry. It also operates the John Paul II Centre on Fatherhood and the John Paul II Therapeutic Clinic.

01/10/2026

🌅 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂.

On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the disciples beheld the glory of Jesus and heard the Father’s invitation: 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘏𝘪𝘮. That invitation reaches into our lives today. Into our uncertainty. Our weariness. Our desire for renewal.

✨ 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘄𝗻: 𝘐𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘓𝘰𝘳𝘥, 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵!

Join us for a 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 journey, a sacred space to contemplate the face of Christ, listen prayerfully and become more attentive to His presence in the ordinary moments of your life.

Come with your longing. Come even if prayer has felt dry or God has seemed distant. You do not need to have everything resolved to make space for Him.

As we listen together, may His light help us see what needs healing, what we are being invited to release and where new life is beginning to dawn. 🕊️

𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗹𝘆.

🔗 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:
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16/09/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲?

Beneath the surface live forgotten wounds, hidden desires and unrecognized parts of ourselves that quietly shape how we think, react, love and pray.

Shadow and dream work invite us inward, not to meet what we find with truth, understanding and grace. Because what is brought into the light can finally be understood, integrated and healed.

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻?

Join us for this powerful journey into deeper self-awareness, healing and wholeness.

𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆. Link below 🔗⬇️

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15/09/2026

Seven years ago, Fr. Mikkel lay before the altar and surrendered his entire life to God. Today, we celebrate the anniversary of his ordination - seven years of a life poured out.

As the first priest of CTC Community, Fr. Mikkel’s priesthood holds a deeply special place within our story. Through his hands, our community has been nourished by the Eucharist. Through his voice, we have heard the mercy of God. Through his presence, we have been accompanied in moments of joy, grief, discernment, healing and transformation.

The priesthood is the mystery through which God continually gives Fr. Mikkel to His Church and to our community.

Fr. Mikkel, thank you for every hidden sacrifice, every prayer offered when no one was watching, every soul carried in your heart, and every faithful “yes” that has followed the first.

May the light of the Transfigured Christ continue to shine through your priesthood. May Our Lady keep you Bajo Su Manto - beneath her mantle, and may your priesthood always lead souls beyond yourself and into the heart of Jesus.

Happy 7th Anniversary of Priestly Ordination, Fr. Mikkel. Your priesthood is a sacred gift to CTC Community, to the Church and to every life God has entrusted to your care. We thank God for your “yes.” 🤍🙏🏽

08/09/2026

𝑰 𝑨𝒎 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 | Shanada’s Journey 🇲🇽🌹

Pilgrimage has a way of taking truths we have carried for years and pressing them deeper into the soul until they are no longer simply things we believe, but realities we have encountered. Mary is our Mother.

We say it. We sing it. We invoke her in prayer. We hold the Rosary in our hands and ask for her intercession.

But at Guadalupe, Mary’s words to Juan Diego confront the heart with something profoundly intimate:

“Am I not here, I who am your mother?”

For Shanada, those words ceased to belong only to an encounter almost five centuries ago. Standing where that sacred story unfolded, they became words addressed to her own heart. That is the grace running through her sharing.
A Mother making her presence known.
A Rosary revealing greater depths.
The faith of other pilgrims calling her own faith higher.
Sacred places becoming spaces of encounter.
And through it all, Mary doing what she has always done: leading the heart toward Jesus.

There is something powerful about many voices becoming one in prayer; about carrying different intentions, different wounds, different stories and different hopes, yet allowing the same mysteries of Christ to pass through every pair of hands holding a Rosary.

Shanada had already discovered the gift of pilgrimage in Italy and France. Mexico called her deeper.

Deeper into trust.
Deeper into the Rosary.
Deeper into community.
Deeper into the motherhood of Mary.
And through Mary, deeper into Christ.

🌹 We share Shanada’s experience of México Bajo Su Manto; the testimony of a pilgrim who returned to the road and discovered that God still had more to reveal.

Because the grace of pilgrimage is that something holy has been allowed to take deeper root within us.

Shouting HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Shanada today!

05/09/2026

𝑨 𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒎’𝒔 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 | Karen 🇲🇽🌹

𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝑨𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆

There are moments in our lives that only make complete sense when we look back.

A desire suddenly placed upon the heart.
A door appearing at just the right time.
A reassuring voice when we are still uncertain.
A road we almost did not take.

At first, they can seem like separate moments. But with the eyes of faith, we sometimes discover the quiet fingerprints of Providence connecting them all.

Karen’s experience of México Bajo Su Manto speaks beautifully of this mystery.
God does not always reveal the whole journey at once. Sometimes He simply goes ahead of us, preparing places, people and encounters we cannot yet see, and asks us to trust Him enough to keep following.

And how fitting that a journey into deeper trust should unfold beneath the mantle of Mary.

Our Lady knows what it is to allow God to lead beyond what is familiar. Her life teaches us that faith is not certainty about what comes next; it is confidence in Who goes with us. She points us again and again toward her Son and whispers through her own witness: trust Him.

Perhaps this is why pilgrimage changes something within us. We leave home believing we are travelling in search of sacred places, only to discover that God has been seeking our hearts through the entire journey.

Karen left Mexico with greater confidence in God and a willingness to await whatever He asks of her next. And that might be one of the greatest graces a pilgrim can bring home - a deeper trust in where God may lead us from here.

🌹 This is Karen’s experience of México Bajo Su Manto and the beautiful ways she came to recognise that when God places a journey upon the heart, He is already present on the road ahead.

03/09/2026

𝑨 𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒎’𝒔 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 | Lisa 🇲🇽🌹

Every pilgrim walks the same roads, visits the same sacred places, and gathers around the same altar, yet God writes a different pilgrimage upon every heart.

For Lisa, 𝐌é𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐣𝐨 𝐒𝐮 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨 became an invitation to be present: to allow time for prayer and reflection, to receive from the experiences of others, and to discover that fellowship, laughter and shared moments can be just as much a part of the grace of pilgrimage as the quiet moments before God.

There is something beautifully Marian in that kind of journey. Mary teaches us not simply to pass through an experience, but to receive it, ponder it, and allow it to remain within us.
And pilgrimage reminds us that we do not make that journey alone. God gives us companions along the way, people with whom we pray, break bread, laugh, listen, share, and sometimes encounter a grace we might never have discovered on our own.

🌹 This is Lisa’s pilgrim experience; in her own words.

A glimpse into what it meant for her to journey with us through Mexico, beneath the mantle of Our Lady, and into an experience whose graces continue long after the pilgrimage itself has ended.

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒎 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒂’𝒔.

25/08/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐖𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐲 | 𝐌é𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐣𝐨 𝐒𝐮 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨 🇲🇽🌹

The grace of pilgrimage isn’t only found before an altar or sacred site.

It is also found around a dinner table. On a long bus ride. In shared laughter. In an unexpected conversation. In the person who began the journey as a stranger and somehow became family.

This is part of what makes a 𝑪𝑻𝑪 𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑴𝑼𝑵𝑰𝑻𝒀 𝑷𝑰𝑳𝑮𝑹𝑰𝑴𝑨𝑮𝑬 different.

Yes, we journey to encounter God in sacred places, in the Eucharist, in prayer and in the footsteps of the saints. But God also waits for us in one another.

Our Mexico pilgrims came from different walks of life, carrying different stories, personalities, ages and experiences. Many barely knew each other or did not know each other at all. And then something beautiful happened along the road.

Strangers became companions.
Companions became friends.
And friends began to feel like family.

Between churches and holy sites were meals shared around tables, sightseeing, jokes that will probably never make sense to anyone outside the group, long conversations, tired moments, spontaneous laughter and simply the joy of being together. Because Christian fellowship is holy too.

That spirit is intentionally woven into CTC pilgrimages. We believe pilgrimage should deepen not only our relationship with God, but also our capacity to see, love and encounter our brothers and sisters in Christ.

One of pilgrimage's most unexpected miracles is discovering that God sometimes places the most unexpected people on the same road.

This is pilgrimage too: faith, family, friendship, laughter, community and the joy of discovering Christ in the people walking beside us.

🌹 México Bajo Su Manto — Mexico Beneath Her Mantle.

22/08/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐬 | 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐦 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 🇲🇽

𝐌é𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐣𝐨 𝐒𝐮 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨 - 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦

As our pilgrimage carried us from Mexico City to Puebla, there was a growing awareness that our journey was beginning to turn toward home. But pilgrimage teaches us that returning home is not the same as going back.

At Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, we encountered the remarkable story of a wooden image of Our Lady discovered within a hollow tree amidst fire and how, after being taken from her chapel, she miraculously returned, again and again.

There was something profoundly fitting in that story as our own pilgrimage approached its end: Mary always leads us to where we are meant to be, and ultimately, she leads us to Christ.

In an intimate, antique chapel dedicated to Our Lady, we celebrated a deeply moving Mass. Reflecting together on the Gospel, each pilgrim began to name the blessings, encounters and graces received along this road. Then we could begin to see how much the journey had changed us.

We came to Mexico carrying intentions, questions, burdens and hopes. We walked sacred ground, knelt before holy altars, encountered stories of miracles and saints, and entrusted ourselves again and again to the maternal care of Mary. But the greatest miracle of pilgrimage may be what God quietly does within the pilgrim.

The journey eventually ends. The suitcase is repacked. The pilgrim returns home. But we do not return as we came.

We return renewed.
We return grateful.
We return carrying grace.
And we return with a responsibility to live differently because of what we have encountered.

The miles may soon end, but the real pilgrimage is only beginning - the lifelong journey of allowing every grace received to draw us closer to Christ.

🌹 Our Lady, keep us beneath your mantle and lead us always to your Son.

México Bajo Su Manto. 🇲🇽

21/08/2026

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙡𝙜𝙧𝙞𝙢 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙮 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚? 🇲🇽

𝐌é𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐣𝐨 𝐒𝐮 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨 - 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦

Pilgrimages help to reveal the kind of disciples we are being called to become.

At the historic Temple of San Francisco, we celebrated Holy Mass during the 800th Centenary Franciscan Jubilee (1226–2026), walking spiritually with St. Francis and learning again the freedom found in simplicity, peace and total surrender to Christ.

At the Shrine of Blessed Miguel Pro, we encountered another expression of that surrender: courage. A priest who risked everything to bring Christ and the Sacraments to his people, and who faced death forgiving his persecutors and proclaiming, “¡Viva Cristo Rey!”. Our pilgrims received the extraordinary grace of being blessed by Fr. Mikkel with a first-class relic of Blessed Miguel Pro, a powerful reminder that holiness is something we are called to live.

And before the shrine of Blessed Conchita, wife, mother, mystic and spiritual mother to priests, we discovered yet another face of holiness: the quiet offering of an ordinary life completely given to God. There we carried our own intentions, and those entrusted to us, into prayer for priests, families and everyone we love!

Three sacred places. Three very different lives. One invitation.

Francis taught us to SURRENDER.
Miguel Pro taught us to BE COURAGEOUS.
Conchita taught us to MAKE OUR EVERYDAY LIVES AN OFFERING.

The true journey of the pilgrim is always inward until that inner conversion becomes a new way of living outward.

🌹 México Bajo Su Manto — beneath her mantle, ever closer to Christ.

19/08/2026

A journey of conversion 🇲🇽

𝐌é𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐁𝐚𝐣𝐨 𝐒𝐮 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐨 - 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦

A pilgrimage is a journey that asks us to become different people along the way.

Yesterday brought that truth into focus as we walked among the ancient pyramids and ruins of Teotihuacan; a place that bears witness to a civilization, a culture, and a people whose world would one day undergo extraordinary change.

Our journey then brought us to the Chapel of the Fifth Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a place of Our Lady’s appearance to Juan Bernardino, the uncle of Saint Juan Diego, and his miraculous healing.

These two places tell, in very different ways, a story of change.

The stones of Teotihuacan remind us that civilizations rise, worlds change, and what once seemed permanent can be transformed. At Guadalupe, that transformation becomes deeply personal. A sick man is healed. A humble indigenous man becomes a messenger of the Mother of God. And through those encounters, the spiritual landscape of an entire people is changed.

This is the revolutionary nature of pilgrimage.
We do not leave home simply to see something different. We leave so that, through grace, we might become different.

Perhaps that is why pilgrimage requires movement. The miles beneath our feet become an outward sign of the movement God desires within our souls.

The pilgrim never journeys merely to arrive at a holy place. The pilgrim journeys so that God may make the heart itself a holy place.

🌹 Our Lady of Guadalupe, transform our hearts and lead us always to your Son.
🌹 Saint Juan Diego, teach us to walk as pilgrims of faith.

México Bajo Su Manto. 🇲🇽
Beneath her mantle, ever closer to Christ.

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