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Come Away and Rest Awhile: How to Make a Desert Day

Come Away and Rest Awhile: How to Make a Desert Day

Looking for a way to ignite your prayer life? This Lent, consider making a desert day, a spiritual practice of silence and solitude to pray and rest with the Lord.

Under the Olive Tree: An Interview with Olivia Spears

Under the Olive Tree: An Interview with Olivia Spears

In this year’s Lent devotional Under the Olive Tree, Olivia Spears guides us as we remain with Jesus in the olive garden, consoling His Heart and sharing ours with Him in Gethsemane.

Receiving the Love of Your First Love: Five Adoration “Date” Ideas

Receiving the Love of Your First Love: Five Adoration “Date” Ideas

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, here are five Adoration “date” ideas to spend time with Jesus, your first love.

The Well Mentorship and My Journey to Catholicism

The Well Mentorship and My Journey to Catholicism

After three years of prayer, tears, and wrestling with God, The Well was the last piece of the puzzle before becoming Catholic.