Lorraine Hess was touring for her new album about glorifying God when she found out that her home had been severely damaged in a house fire.  After returning home she felt drawn to Adoration. While there, she heard God ask her, “Can you glorify me while you are carrying a cross?” In this Easter podcast, hear how Lorraine was committed to glorifying God throughout the 20 months her family was displaced while fixing their home. God sharpened Lorraine to stay in gratitude and recognize how people were watching her living witness. Hear Lorraine sing about this experience in her song “A Heart ..read more

“I’m here for a change of heart.” Don Weller spoke these words as he began the intake process for his heart transplant surgery. When Don woke up from the surgery, the doctor handed him a stethoscope and Don listened to his replacement heart's beat for the first time. A little while later, his wife Barb, their son and two daughters were able to do the same.   But Don wasn't the only one in the hospital room receiving the miraculous gift of new life that day. As Don and Barb’s daughters listened to Don’s new heart, two tiny hearts were beating within them—they were both pregnant.  ..read more

There was silence in the delivery room when Jessica Cox was born—Jessica’s parents and the doctors were stunned to see she was born without arms. As Jessica’s father held her that morning, a stranger approached and said how special he and Jessica's mom must be to bless them with Jessica-- Jessica's parents not only remembered their faith that morning, but they shared it with Jessica.  Jessica, in turn, has been blessed with supernatural perseverance and determination in her lifetime. Be inspired in this Easter podcast as Jessica shares almost unimaginable achievements (like Guinness World ..read more

Immaculée Ilibagiza followed her father’s instructions and ran to her neighbor’s house to hide at the start of the Rwandan genocide. She spent the next three months huddled in a tiny bathroom with seven other women, while extremist members of another tribe tried to find and kill them.  It was in this bathroom that Immaculée gave her heart to God and began to pray in a way she never had before—as she recited the words of the Rosary, peace veiled and healed her from the anger and fear that otherwise consumed her.   When Immaculée finally left the bathroom at the end of the genocide, sh ..read more

On Holy Thursday Sister Gianna Junker, a Nashville Dominican, had a conversion of heart in which she learned to accept suffering and discovered what she grappled with most.  “I am my suffering. I am my biggest cross.” While Sister Gianna, like all of us, found it easy to blame her suffering on other people and circumstances in her life, she realized that the person who most needed healing was her.  As Sister Gianna accepted her own interior struggle she learned a profound lesson: when we sit in a place where we can be in our own weakness and cry out to God, that is when he can reveal ..read more

Tim Forbes scored a goal at his college lacrosse game and looked up to see who was cheering loudly--Tim will never forget spotting his friend, Santis, as well as a young, homeless man they had befriended, James. Tim learned "radical empathy" through his encounters with James. Tim was touched by James' humanity and saw Christ residing in him--James also ministered to Tim. Through this experience in his young adulthood, coupled with many years of ministry and a career in Catholic school administration, God has taught Tim to practice empathy with those he serves, as well as those he disagrees or ..read more

Susan Skinner discovered she had the gift of discernment of spirits.  Susan’s son had slept over at his friend's home before, but this time Susan felt uneasy; she said yes to playing during the day, but no to the overnight invitation. Susan dropped her son off and chatted with the friend’s mom, Veronica, in her living room. The next day, Veronica was murdered right where she and Susan had been standing about 12 hours earlier. Susan's suffering consumed her as she grappled to understand how a loving God could ever let this happen. Learn how God met Susan as she lay in tears on her bathroom ..read more

Screenwriter Rod Barr shares how God had a plan for Mother Francesca Cabrini that was not her own. At the turn of the 20th century, the dream of a better life inspired Italian immigrants to journey to America. Tragically, most found themselves among the poorest of the poor and even homeless--including the children. While Mother Cabrini had committed her heart to ministry in China, Pope Leo XIII directed her to help these immigrants where they had landed in New York City. While many build empires for themselves, Saint Frances Cabrini built one for God. In this Lenten podcast, hear how Saint Cab ..read more

The dawn of each day is a precious time for Megan Nix--her youngest daughter was born at the start of a new day and her beloved mother later went home to God in the early morning hours.   Megan came to learn that not only was dawn the start of these soul-touching days, but also new seasons in her life. Seasons in which Megan would come to know the depth of grief and boundlessness of love.  Megan's daughter was was born into silence due to deafness caused by cytomegalovirus (CMV). Megan's heart was met with great sorrow as she processed the impact, learned the avoidable cause she was ..read more

As a young girl, Tara Nowell began to believe the lie that she couldn’t depend on anyone but herself. Eventually, this became anyone but herself and “the bottle.” Even when she was at her rock bottom with alcoholism, Tara did not deny God’s existence--she just wanted Him to leave her alone. Yet through the love of Christ and her beloved parents, God pursued Tara. After years of denial and resistance, Tara entered a Catholic Healing Center Cenacolo and God began to chisel away at Tara's hardened heart. While Tara wanted to leave Cenacolo, she took the advice of a woman who encouraged her to sta ..read more