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Starting next week, we at Desert Stream Ministries begin an 8-part prayer/intercession series designed to prepare us for Easter. Entitled...

‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow...

“In that day, declares the Lord, you will call me my husband; you will no longer call me my master…I will betroth you to me forever; I...

‘Now on His way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As He was going into a village, ten men who...

‘If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.’ (LK 9: 23) Jesus’ Cross is the foundation of our...

‘There is no other way except through the Burning Love of Christ Crucified.’ St. Bonaventure I grew up in the shadow of the Cross. To...

‘Do not be conformed to this age but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…’ (Romans 12: 2a) ‘That was the first time I had ever...

‘I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will...

‘These matters are in my hands and I will bring them to fruition according to My Mercy, for nothing can oppose My will.’ Jesus to St....

‘By calling God the “Father,” the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and...

‘I love the Lord, for He heard my voice; He heard my cry for mercy. Because He turned His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I...

‘The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.’ (PS 103: 6) We have lost an understanding of human nature, founded in...

‘Do you show contempt for the riches of His kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to...

‘For Jesus Himself is our peace, who has made the two one, and who has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility…His purpose...

‘The Church must know the difference between order and disorder, and be wise enough to contextualize disorder with grace and truth.’ Dr....

‘Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert…and a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness.’...

‘I will rouse your sons, O Zion, and make them like a warrior’s sword.’ (Zech. 9: 13) In October, California lawmakers gave K-12 students...

‘At the moment of Your death upon the cross, You opened an inexhaustible spring of Mercy for us, giving us Your dearest possession, the...

‘Come all who are thirsty, come to the waters.’ (IS 55: 1) We fought hard but I knew in my diminished state that something had shifted in...

‘Because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked, be merciful as He is.’(Lk 6: 35, 6) Rattled by a hundred things, I raced into Mass the...