This week on the podcast we talk about the lenten practice of fasting. Fr Ian is fired up! The whole…

In the last few years, the Catholic scene has been exploding with new prayer journals. This trend is a good…

This week on the podcast Fr Ian and Alanna discuss the power of our spoken word to reveal who we…

This week on the ​podcast​ we talk about motivation and what is required to keep ​us ​going. A few things…

This week Fr Ian and Alanna discuss the connections within the Sunday readings. Ezra was a leader in the spiritual…

Fr. Ian Van Heusen and Alanna Burg discuss the readings for the Second Sunday in Ordinary time. We begin discussing…

This week we go over the prophecy of Daniel regarding the saying “one like a Son of Man”. We discuss…

By the fall semester of my junior year at Northwest Missouri State University, I was completely consumed with the typical…

I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of…

In the hidden recesses of the human heart, the grace of a vocation takes the form of a dialogue. It…

Beauty without virtue is like a fair flower that has an offensive odor. But true beauty bathes in that light…

Even the most beautiful community can never heal the wound of loneliness that we carry. It is only when we…

If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I would reply: Create silence! The Word of God…

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Lord, I ask your pardon, I have sinned again. This, alas, is what I am capable of doing on my…

I wept, but the mask did not let the tears escape; they ran down inside over my cheeks and dried…