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We celebrate Pride Month by showcasing Jesus’ Kingdom kindness: how His love invites and enables sexually wounded people to become...

‘Something is true not because the Church teaches it. The Church teaches something because it is true,’ as quoted by Fr. Paul Check. A...

‘Is it a time for you to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains in ruins? Go…and build the house, so that I may take...

Editor’s Note: Annette wrote this year-end piece about wounded systems and symptoms. I loved it and thought it worth repeating. What is...

“Who are you…what do you have to say for yourself? ‘I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness…’” (Jn. 1:22-23). Advent pops our...

Living Truth ‘You are Peter, and on this Rock, I will build My Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.’ (Matt. 16:18)....

The Child is a Warrior ‘I have quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me' (Ps....

Magnificent Seed ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in a field. Though it is the smallest of all...

Becoming Home ‘Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The Lord will...

Unconverted Lives ‘Is the price we are paying today with the collapse of the organized churches anything else but an inevitable...

Ugly Orthodoxy The priest corrected our errant ways throughout one of our Living Waters trainings. We discovered this together as team...

How Solid Witnesses Unite a Divided Church ‘Modern man listens to witnesses more than teachers.’- Pope Paul VI Marco and Ania shared...

Part 3: Integration This is the third blog of our three-part series. If you haven’t already, please read part 1 here and part 2 here....

Previously published in Desert Stream’s 2023 Mid-Year Report Jesus heals the sexually disintegrated. I know this because He healed me of...

‘Now in Christ Jesus you who were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ’ (Eph. 2:13). To find the narrow way...

‘I shall lose none of those who the Father has given Me’ (Jn 6:39). I am welling up with joy. Still savoring the Living Waters intensive...

One year ago, as I left home for Mass to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi (Latin for the Body of Christ), I had no idea that my life...

‘When we find ourselves in the presence of such beautiful souls, we cannot but discover in them an obvious sign of the experience of...

‘The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name—He will teach you everything…’ (Jn. 14:26) What were they thinking?...

Not long after Easter, I awoke with music in my soul–the beautiful chant melodies and simple lyrics that narrated the weekend's services....