The 12 People You Meet in the Adoration Chapel by Courtney Kiolbassa • September 21, 2017 …Novelist You can hear their pencil scratching as they scribble a few (dozen) pages worth of prayer. Their pen literally does not stop moving for an hour. They go through…
Fasting With my Boyfriend And Learning About God by Abbey Staub • March 28, 2017 …I have come to appreciate the importance of fasting. Recently my boyfriend and myself began fasting together. It was something that had come up in his and my prayer separately…
A Beginner’s Guide to Adoration by Caitlin Sica • January 25, 2016 …the first time I sat in adoration. I no longer dread the form of prayer, but desire it. I try to go to adoration several times a month. Sometimes, I…
Letters to God: 5 Reasons to Keep a Journal by Jurell Sison • June 30, 2016 …are 10,000 things going on at the same time it’s easy to get overwhelmed in prayer but if I write my prayer — things are different. Writing down my thoughts…
The One-Minute Challenge by Melissa Butz • September 9, 2015 …Recently I had a conversation with my best friend about prayer. It went a little like this: “How can people pray for a whole hour? What on earth do…
It Didn’t Have to be Beautiful by Sophia Swinford • March 12, 2018 …appreciate beauty and find in it a source of prayer, because beautiful things raise our hearts and minds to heaven. They call us to contemplate the source of the all…
All I do is Win by Basilio (Chilo) Salinas • October 8, 2018 …times that life hands us “L’s.” The Game Plan To turn L’s into W’s, you have to make a habit out of prayer. A good prayer life leads to a…
Into the Desert: How to Live Your Lent with Purpose by Sam Brebner • February 8, 2018 …purpose. There are three areas in particular that the Church teaches we should try to grow in over these 40 days: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Prayer It’s no accident that…
10 Reasons you Need to go on a Retreat This Year by Nick Bernard • January 22, 2018 …that after pouring Himself into His ministry, He needed to fill Himself back up by spending time alone with the Father in prayer. Retreats give us the same opportunity to…
The Rosary is the Greatest Prayer for Peace by Life Teen • May 28, 2012 …prayer for peace than the rosary. The grave challenges confronting the world at the start of this new Millennium lead us to think that only an intervention from on…