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Learn how to pray here if you're new to the practice.

New to Prayer? Here are 3 Creative Ways to Approach It

Read this Lenten prayers for desire and longing.

A Cigarette at Midnight: Lenten Thoughts on Desire

Read this reflective narrative about being angry with God.

What the **** Lord? And Other Prayers

Finding hope in the darkness can be challenging when you have been suffering.

Hope in Darkness — an Interview with JD Kim

Why does God allow suffering? Watch this personal story.

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Read about how to make a pilgrimage plan to pray for racial justice.

5 Steps to Create a Response to Racism in Your Neighborhood

Read about how having a good spiritual director can help your relationship with God, no matter who you are.

Why a Spiritual Director Just Might Be What You Need

Praying the daily examen for one month changed this author — read about her transformation here.

I Used a Daily Reflection for a Month — Here’s How it Changed Me

Check out this practical guide to praying for others.

A Practical Guide to Praying for Others

Read what the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyla can teach you about your spiritual life.

The Cannonball That Created a Saint — and Changed Catholicism

Follow this guided reflection that we have created on the anniversary of George Floyd's death — a time to reflect on his death and the racial injustice that confronts people every day.

Free Download: A 9-Minute, 29-Second Prayer for Racial Justice

Follow this guided reflection that we have created on the anniversary of George Floyd's death — a time to reflect on his death and the racial injustice that confronts people every day.

Spend 9 Minutes, 29 Seconds With This Prayer for Racial Justice

Explore centering prayer by following these simple ways.

This Form of Prayer Can Help Center Yourself

Praying with icons can be a new form of prayer. If you're willing to try it, read how to do it here.

Free Download: How to Pray with Icons

Praying with icons can be a new form of prayer. If you're willing to try it, read how to do it here.

The Ancient Secret to Praying With Icons

Find out here how a regular fitness routine can help with your prayer life.

Four Ways Fitness Can Help Your Prayer Life

Can we be closer to God by reciting the "Our Father" prayer? Does it really work?

How to Start Praying Daily

Have you ever had an enlightenment experience?

The Power of an Enlightenment Experience

Have you been feeling alone lately? Here are some different ways to pray if you want to talk to God.

5 Ways to Pray When Loneliness Hits

Read about how this Lenten prayer practice changed this author for the better.

How a Daily Journaling Practice Transformed My Lent

Have you thought of trying a body prayer? This author explains how it helped see herself differently.

How Prayer Taught Me to Love My Body

Watch why Zack decided to become a part of a living history museum.

Bringing Jesus’ World to Life in Nazareth

Pray before you go to bed because it can help you sleep better and stress less.

Can’t Sleep? Stop Stressing, Start Praying

Recite the examen prayer that can help you find peace throughout all the holiday chaos.

Find Peace in Holiday Chaos with This Contemplative Practice

Find out the surprising health benefits of prayer by reading this article.

How This Form of Meditation Can Improve Your Wellbeing

Recite these prayers before taking a test.

Nervous for a Big Test? Say These Prayers

Learn how this Jesuit semarian learned prayer from hunting.

Praying in a Deer Stand

Join this author as she decided to make a sacrifice for others during this pandemic.

How to Put Your Prayers into Motion in this Pandemic

Learn how to start and keep a new prayer practice here.

How to Start (and Sustain) a New Prayer Practice

Understand what it's like to live with OCD and perfectionism.

Learning to Pray Through My OCD and Perfectionism

Use these prayers to forgive someone who has hurt you.

Turn to These Prayers to Help You Forgive

Believe in the power of prayer by reading this piece about Zac Efron on 'Down to Earth.'

Zac Efron Explores the Power of Prayer in New Wellness Show

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Why It’s Okay if You’re in a Spiritual Slump Right Now

Reflect while reading these Catholic prayers for forgiveness.

Prayers for When You Need Forgiveness

Read this Catholic prayer against racism.

A Prayer for Racial Justice

Discover the effects of prayer on your mental health.

How Prayer Affects Your Mental Health

Trey Mancini and Trevor Williams have had to embrace the unexpected lately; find out why and how here.

These Ballplayers Are Embracing the Unexpected — Even Off the Field

Find out how to change your mindset with these 3 ways.

3 Practices to Enrich Your Life

Find out here for how to make every Sunday special again.

9 Ways to Set Aside Sunday as Special

This author proposes what saints to pray to during the pandemic.

3 Saints to Turn to During the Pandemic

Take some time to reflect and read this Catholic prayer for healing in a time of need.

Asking for Healing in Times of Need

Check out how this app for prayer and meditation is changing the way people pray.

This App Guides You in Prayerful Meditation

Have you ever wondered 'do thoughts and prayers actually help?' This author talks about what he learned about the power of prayer.

What Good are “Thoughts and Prayers” Anyway?

Learn how to calm down with your COVID-19 fear & anxiety.

What To Do with Your COVID-19 Fear and Anxiety

Try the daily examen and see how it can affect your everyday life.

How This Ancient Meditation Practice Changes My Day

Learn how fasting and prayer can work together, especially during the Lenten season.

Boost Your Lenten Fasting with Prayer

Make an effort with getting into prayer mode by using these 5 simple ways.

5 Simple Ways to Get Into Prayer Mode

Discover how being Catholic and yoga don't have to be mutually exclusive.

What Yoga Offers to the Spiritual Life

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A Husband’s Prayers for Marriage

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How and Why We Pray for the Dead

Woman closing her eyes, praying and drinking coffee in the morning sunshine, while standing in a messy kitchen.

How My Morning Coffee Transformed My Spiritual Life

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4 Strategies for Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

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How and Why to Say a Quick Prayer Before Bedtime

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One Way to Bring Imaginative Prayer to Life

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Mass on a Mountain Peak

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A Random, Creative Way to Remember to Pray

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One Way to Remember to Pray for Others

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What an Imaginative Prayer Experience Taught Me

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How I Learned to ‘Just Talk’ to God

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How I’ve Come to Like Praying Without My Own Words

Try the novena prayer to improve your faith.

How a 9-Day Routine Revived My Spiritual Life

Read how dealing with imposter syndrome can positively affect your prayer life.

How I Dealt with Imposter Syndrome in My Faith Life

It's easy to focus on the negative aspects of life, but gratitude journaling can change your perspective.

What Gratitude Journaling Taught Me About Happiness

Meditating in nature gave this man plenty of time and silence to reflect on his life and talk to God about it.

3 Ways Backpacking Developed My Interior Life

Use these 3 easy steps on how to pray out loud without feeling uncomfortable.

3 Easy Steps to Make Praying Out Loud Less Awkward

Read about these people who have overcome adversity and what's truly at the core of their inner strength.

The Inner Strength of an Ironman Champion

Wondering how to pray the stations of the cross? Here's your beginner's guide!

The Beginner’s Guide to the Stations of the Cross

How I found out that St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises and a marathon are similar.

Prayer, Just Like Exercise, Takes Discipline

This author learned 3 valuable lessons from 8 minutes of silent Catholic prayer.

3 Lessons Learned from 8 Minutes of Daily Silence

Read how this author learned being honest with God in prayer strengthened her faith.

How I Learned to Be Emotionally Open with God in Prayer

Try out these 4 informal different ways to pray — no words necessary!

4 Informal Ways to Pray (No Words Necessary)

Why do we observe the 3 basic Lent practices as Catholics? Watch why.

Isaac Huss Breaks Down the 3 Lenten Basics | #WhyWeLent

Follow these 5 easy steps for how to keep a prayer journal.

How to Keep a Prayer Journal

We stand with our Muslim neighbors affected by the New Zealand terrorist attack.

How to Share Solidarity with Our Muslim Neighbors Today and Every Day

It's not always easy opening up to God, especially about fears. Try writing it down.

5 Benefits of Writing to God Instead of Praying

Try these 3 ways of connecting with God when life's too hard or seems to busy to pray.

How I Fit Prayer into My Busiest Days

This author deepened her faith by using running as a spiritual practice. Read how a running community helped that.

How I Found Spiritual Peace in My Running Routine

What is contemplative prayer and how do you do it? It might feel awkward at first, but these are the key elements to this type of prayer.

What is Contemplative Prayer?

Read why, in the face of suffering, this author stopped praying, but then decided to start praying again.

Why I Quit Praying — and Why I Started Again

Follow these 3 simple ways of praying everyday for how to improve your prayer life.

How to Make Prayer a Part of Your Everyday Life

This author discovered why silence is important in prayer.

How My Prayer Life Was Taken to the Next Level

Pope Francis has asked us to pray the rosary this month. Here's a Visitation Rosary Reflection.

Why Pope Francis Wants You to Pray the Rosary Right Now

What does 'form your conscience' mean? This author unpacks that and how to form your conscience.

What Does it Mean to Form Your Conscience?

This Christian rap about God talks about the rapper finding his purpose and giving his life to God.

Christian Rapper Shares His Faith

Pope Francis is praying for social media positivity for his June 2018 prayer intention. Here's what that means.

Why Pope Francis is Praying for Social Media This Month

Download this 30-day prayer journal to learn more about holiness and how to achieve holiness.

The Prayer Journal That Helped Us Rethink Holiness

Use these 5 out-of-the-box ways to pray to deepen your Catholic faith.

5 Outside-the-Box Ways to Expand Your Prayer Life

These 6 catholic prayer apps will help you use your phone for daily spiritual mindfulness.

6 Apps for Daily Spiritual Mindfulness

Easter Prayer and reflection from the Proclamation of Easter.

A Prayer for Easter Light

Woman saying everyday Catholic prayers while sitting alone at a cluttered desk. The woman's hands are folded, elbows on the desk, and her head is bowed.

Prayers from Your Childhood To Get You Through Your Day

This short Catholic prayer changed this author's life.

This 5-Second Prayer Gets Me Through My Day

Read why sending thoughts and prayers does make a difference.

Why Thoughts and Prayers Do Make a Difference

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Find out the benefits of improv class for people looking to become more vulnerable and unafraid to fail.

Improv Taught Me to Embrace the Fail

Find out why using humor in the classroom is an effective strategy to keep students engaged.

How Humor Can Help You Learn

Watch how Christian comedian Ellis Aych connects with God in his work.

Using Comedy to Showcase Life’s Beauty

Read this reflective narrative about Camp John Marc, a place for kids with chronic illnesses and disabilities, and the joy in this special space.

Joy That Refuses To Be Eclipsed

Listen to Good & Decent's latest episode reflecting on the benefits of laughing and inspirational comedians.

Good and Decent EP 21: Comedy of Life

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It’s More Important than Ever to Engage in Politics

Practice these morning stretches to start your day intentionally.

Start Your Day With These Yoga Postures

Watch how Aram's improv comedy class instills confidence and creativity in the Chicago community.

Creative Magic Behind Chicago’s Improv Comedy

Want to know how to do stand-up comedy as a hobby? Find out how to overcome your nerves and even grow as a person.

How and Why to Pursue Comedy as a Hobby

Find out how using humor to cope can help you see laughter as a promise and source of hope.

The Promise of “One Day, You’ll Laugh About This”