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‘The season of singing has come’ (Song of Songs 2:12). ‘He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart’ (Is....

Not really. I am struggling this Good Friday to be still. One loving gaze from the Crucified usually sets me right, but today my...

By Marco Casanova ‘My Jesus, hide my soul in Your heart as You lie in the sepulcher alone. Let my heart be as a fire to keep You warm....

As you read this, Abbey and I, along with our Polish Living Waters Coordinator Jacek, are holding a series of important meetings in...

‘In You there is forgiveness, so You are to be feared’ (Psalm 130:4). ‘The purpose of Lent…is to create a healthy hatred of evil, a...

No-one embodies the living hope of Jesus better than Dean Greer, our Living Waters USA Manager, and wife Chrystal. I met Dean in San...

In a culture committed to every sexual and relational variant imaginable, we need direction. A map for whole relationships. We have one...

Ania Bandura Ania is a Polish journalist who interviewed me for a Catholic journal last December before our training in Kraków. We met,...

Besides beloved France, Eastern Europe—namely Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania—are Desert Stream Ministries’ main partners on the continent....

At first I was angry. How could parents do this to a beloved child? Framed in their Christmas greeting, the parents beam upon 3-year-old...

By Marco Casanova Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of...

‘To make obvious or clear to the eye of one’s heart’ (Gr. epiphany). True desires of the heart may languish until someone manifests what...

By Abbey Foard "Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom—it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that:...

I tend to prepare myself for the worst on this Sunday, the Feast of the Holy Family. I have heard too many dismal homilies on the...

By Abbey Foard We enter the manger tonight and adore Infant Jesus. There He invites us to heal. Let me give you an example from a recent...

By Katie Comiskey The joy of Advent is often lost on me. As one prone to melancholy, I dwell more on disappointment than victories....

‘Man becomes truly himself precisely at the point when he recognizes that the highest and brightest Being dwells within him.’ Fr. Alfred...

I couldn’t respect Pope Francis more for his heart for the poor. And like you, I love his jocular, down-to-earth style. Yet I find his...

Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...

By Marco Casanova DSM Assistant Director Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He...