Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

New video is live — and I'll be honest, this one has been sitting with me for a while.

It's about spiritual attack. Specifically: the 3 signs that most people overlook — or explain away — because they're subtle enough to dismiss.

The prayer block. The emotional fog. The disruptive coincidences that cluster specifically around your faith life.

I made this because I've read your comments. I know how many of you are walking through something right now that doesn't quite feel like ordinary life difficulty. Something that targets the specific moments when you try to pray, or try to forgive, or try to build something good. Something that has the quality of opposition rather than circumstance.

This video is for you. It names what's happening. It puts the weapons in your hands. And it closes with a prayer that I believe changes the atmosphere of any room it's prayed in.

https://youtu.be/AumWTMLhG8U
After you watch — drop "I CLAIM PEACE" in the comments if the prayer brought you peace. And if someone in your life is in a season that feels like more than ordinary struggle, send this to them. Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is hand someone the name of what they're facing.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

The "Sweet rest" comments on the Rosary for sleep video have been something I keep returning to.

People watching at midnight. At 3am. Before a hard day. After a long week. Some typing just those two words. Some leaving a little more — the specific thing they finally handed over, the thing they stopped holding alone.

I didn't know what this video would become when I made it. Now I do.

If you haven't found it yet — it's here. https://youtu.be/bLu2hfcSDNg

And if you have — how did you sleep?

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

Can I ask you something before you go to sleep tonight?

What are you taking to bed with you?

Not the pillow. Not the phone — though most of us are guilty of that too. I mean the invisible thing. The worry that spent the whole day riding around quietly in the back of your mind while you were trying to be present for everything else. The conversation you rehearsed a dozen times and still don't know how to have. The outcome you cannot control but cannot stop trying to arrange. The grief that is manageable during daylight and somehow gets heavier after dark.

Most of us have been carrying something like that for longer than we want to admit.

And most of us, when we finally close our eyes, don't release it. We just go horizontal with it. We sleep on top of it, and it's still there in the morning — the same weight, now compounded by the exhaustion of having carried it through another night.

There is an older way of doing this.

For centuries, faithful people at the end of difficult days have brought what they were carrying to Mary. Not to bypass God — she always points to her Son. But because there is something about a mother's intercession that reaches the places we can't articulate in formal prayer. Because the act of saying "I cannot hold this tonight — will you?" is itself a posture of trust. And trust, practised in the dark, is the foundation of peace.

She held the most unimaginable burden a mother could hold. She carried it all the way to the foot of the cross and did not drop it. And then she witnessed what comes after the cross.

She can hold yours.

Whatever you're taking to bed with you tonight — you don't have to sleep with it.

Drop a 🌙 if you needed to read this today. And if the Rosary for Sleep video would help you hand it over — it's in my recent uploads. Fifteen minutes. The Five Glorious Mysteries. One thing laid down before you close your eyes.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

Something new is live tonight — and it's the one I most wanted to make for this community.

It's a complete Rosary for sleep. Fifteen minutes. The Five Glorious Mysteries, prayed slowly, with a moment before each decade where you're invited to hand something specific to Mary.

Not a general burden. The specific one. The one that followed you through the whole day and is now following you to bed.

I made this because I believe there is a kind of rest that doesn't come from sleep alone. It comes from the act of genuine release — from placing something in the hands of someone more capable than yourself and allowing your grip to finally open.

Mary carried more than any of us will ever carry. And she knows how to hold what we cannot.

https://youtu.be/bLu2hfcSDNg
Drop "Sweet rest" in the comments if this prayer met you somewhere real tonight. And if someone in your life hasn't been sleeping well — send it to them. Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do for someone carrying too much is hand them a way to set it down.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

Something about the Elijah story in 1 Kings has stayed with me for years — and it's the part that doesn't get talked about enough.

Elijah had just witnessed one of the most dramatic miracles in Scripture. He had called down fire from heaven. He had won, by any reasonable measure.

And then, in the very next chapter, he sat under a tree in the desert and asked God to let him die.

Not because his faith was small. Because he was completely burned out. Isolated. Convinced he was the only person left who cared about anything.

Sound familiar?

Here is what God did next. He didn't send another miracle. He didn't offer a theological explanation. He sent an angel with bread and water and told Elijah to eat — because the journey ahead was too great for him.

And then He came to Elijah on the mountain. Not in the earthquake. Not in the fire. Not in the violent wind. In what the Hebrew calls a qol demamah daqah — a still, small voice. A whisper so quiet it required Elijah to step to the entrance of the cave and actively choose to listen.

I keep thinking about that choice. The whisper doesn't force itself. It waits at the entrance. It asks a question — "What are you doing here?" — not as accusation, but as invitation. As if the whole point is to draw the soul back out of its hiding place by being gentler than the fear that drove it in.

Most of us are waiting for the earthquake. We're expecting God to be unmistakable and loud. And so we miss the whisper at the entrance of the cave every single time.

What if the voice you've been straining to hear has been there all along — and the only thing required is a different quality of attention?

Drop a 🙏 if this landed somewhere real today. And if you want the three practical steps I've found most helpful for building that quality of attention, the latest video covers exactly that — link in recent uploads.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

New video is live — and it starts with a story I keep coming back to.

Elijah had just called down fire from heaven. He had outrun a chariot. He had witnessed a miracle that shook the mountain. And then, in the very next chapter, he was hiding in a cave — burned out, utterly alone, asking God to let him die.

And God came to him.

Not in the earthquake. Not in the dramatic fire. Not in the great wind that tore the rocks apart.

In a still, small voice. So quiet it required Elijah to step to the entrance of the cave and choose to hear it.

I think about how many of us are waiting for the earthquake. Expecting God to be loud and unmistakable — and so missing the whisper entirely.

This video is about learning to hear the whisper. Three specific practices, completely practical, beginning with a 5-minute habit you can try tomorrow morning.

video link: https://youtu.be/r0mAfBfFoOE

Tell me in the comments: do you find it easier to speak to God or to listen? I'm genuinely curious — and I think your answer will tell you exactly which of the three steps to start with.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

New video is live — and it starts with a story I keep coming back to.

Elijah had just called down fire from heaven. He had outrun a chariot. He had witnessed a miracle that shook the mountain. And then, in the very next chapter, he was hiding in a cave — burned out, utterly alone, asking God to let him die.

And God came to him.

Not in the earthquake. Not in the dramatic fire. Not in the great wind that tore the rocks apart.

In a still, small voice. So quiet it required Elijah to step to the entrance of the cave and choose to hear it.

I think about how many of us are waiting for the earthquake. Expecting God to be loud and unmistakable — and so missing the whisper entirely.

This video is about learning to hear the whisper. Three specific practices, completely practical, beginning with a 5-minute habit you can try tomorrow morning.

video link: https://youtu.be/r0mAfBfFoOE


Tell me in the comments: do you find it easier to speak to God or to listen? I'm genuinely curious — and I think your answer will tell you exactly which of the three steps to start with.

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

Something St. Ignatius of Loyola taught has been sitting with me all week, and I want to share it because I think it might change the way you understand what you're going through right now.

He described two spiritual states every serious believer moves through.

The first he called consolation — that felt sense of God's nearness in prayer. The warmth, the clarity, the ease of faith. The moments when prayer feels like a conversation and you walk away settled.

The second he called desolation — the silence. The dryness. The prayers that seem to bounce off the ceiling. The season where you're doing everything right and feeling absolutely nothing back.

And here is what Ignatius said about desolation that almost no one teaches:

It is not the same as abandonment. God permits desolation. He does not send it as punishment — He allows it as formation. The faith that only works when it feels good is not yet mature faith. The roots go deeper when there's no rain.

Most of us, when we enter desolation, assume we did something wrong. Or that God stepped back. Or that something in our spiritual life is broken. And so we either panic and try to manufacture the feeling again — or we slowly stop praying altogether.

But what if the silence isn't God going offline?

What if it's God building something in you that can only be built in the quiet?

If your prayer life feels dry right now, you are not outside God's attention. You may be inside one of the most important seasons of your entire spiritual formation. The seed does its deepest work underground, before anything appears above the surface.

Drop a 🙏 if this landed somewhere real today.

And if you want to go deeper — I did a full teaching this week on the 3 blocks that derail prayer and how to clear them. Link in recent uploads.

1 month ago | [YT] | 1

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

The "Jesus, I trust in You" comments on the unanswered prayer video have been something I keep returning to.

People in waiting seasons of every kind — jobs, health, relationships, vocations, decades-long prayers that still don't have an answer.

All choosing to say it out loud anyway. That's not small. That's real faith.

If you haven't watched yet, this is the one: https://youtu.be/BNALFww9kko

And if you have — scroll the comments before you close the tab. Someone in there is carrying something very close to what you're carrying. And they needed to name it almost as much as you needed to read it.

1 month ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

The comments on the Alone With Jesus prayer have done something to me.

People are sharing things in there they've never told anyone. The loneliness that's been living behind their eyes for years. The grief they've been performing okayness around. The 2am that finally broke something open.

If you haven't watched yet — this might be the moment.

Video link: https://youtu.be/sgSzQ-SYMaI

And if you have — scroll the comments before you go. Someone in there needed to say something. And someone else needed to read it.

That's not an accident. That's community.

1 month ago | [YT] | 0