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.

1 day 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.

3 days 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 week 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 week 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.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

I want to ask you something, and I want to ask it honestly.

When was the last time you felt truly known by another person?

Not just liked. Not just tolerated. Known — in the way where someone sees the version of you behind the version you show everyone else, and they stay anyway.

I've been thinking a lot about a moment in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus asks His closest friends for one thing — just stay awake with me. Just be here. Don't leave me in this alone.

And they fell asleep.

He came back three times. Three times, they were gone.

The God of the universe, asking to not be alone — and the people He loved most couldn't hold vigil with Him.

There's something extraordinarily comforting about that to me. Not because it ended in abandonment — it didn't. But because it means Jesus is not a distant God who watches loneliness from the outside. He has been inside it. He knows exactly what it feels like to reach for someone and find absence.

Which means when you bring your loneliness to Him — He doesn't look at it the way someone who has never felt it looks at it.

He recognizes it.

Drop a 🙏 if this landed somewhere real for you today. And if you want to sit with this a little longer, the Alone With Jesus prayer is in my recent uploads — 10 minutes, just you and Him.

You are more seen than you feel right now.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

Something went live today that I've been sitting with for a while.

It's a prayer called ALONE WITH JESUS. And it starts from an image I can't stop thinking about: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, asking His closest friends to simply stay awake with Him — and coming back to find them asleep. Three times.

The Son of God, alone in His darkest hour. Not because God abandoned Him. But because sometimes the people we love most simply cannot go where we are going.

If you've felt that this season — this prayer is for you.

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

Tell me in the comments: what's one thing you've been carrying alone lately? You don't have to share details. Even just "I know this feeling" lets someone else know they're not the only one.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

Can I ask you something honest?

What's the one thing you keep picking back up — even after you've prayed about it?

You know what I mean. The thing you give to God on Monday and somehow find yourself carrying again by Tuesday afternoon. The worry that sneaks back in while you're washing dishes or lying in the dark at 2am.

I ask because I've been there. I still go there.

And what I've slowly learned is that surrender isn't a one-time act. It's a practice. Sometimes daily. Sometimes hourly.

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7)

Not "cast it once and you're done." Cast it. Keep casting it. Every time it comes back, cast it again.

That's what the new prayer video is built around — not a quick fix, but a real moment of surrender. 10 minutes. Just you and God.

If you haven't watched it yet, the link is in my recent uploads. And if you have — I'd genuinely love to know: what's one thing you've been casting lately?

Drop it in the comments. This is a safe place. 🙏

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

A few days ago I posted a 10-minute surrender prayer — and the comments have been something else.

People sharing things they've never said out loud. Burdens they've been carrying for years. Fears they finally gave a name.

If you haven't watched yet, this might be your sign. 👇

Video link: https://youtu.be/x_1V7lODyec

And if you have — what did you leave with God? I'd love to hear.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Catholic Prayers for Peace & Strength

Something new is live today — and I think it might be exactly what someone here needed.

It's a guided prayer called SURRENDER.

Not a pep talk. Not a list of things to do. Just you, God, and 15 minutes of actually handing over the thing you've been white-knuckling.

If you woke up this morning with something heavy on your chest — this one's for you. 🙏

Tell me in the comments: what's one thing you're choosing to surrender today? Even if it's hard to say out loud.

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