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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.

Twenty-Five Things to Know About the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope

Twenty-Five Things to Know About the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope

Learn all about the Jubilee Year of Hope with these twenty-five fun facts.

How to Untangle Our Feminine Hearts From the Knots of Our Wounds

How to Untangle Our Feminine Hearts From the Knots of Our Wounds

It’s in the heart that we feel love and give love. Our hearts are also the place where we hold the pain from our wounds. Ask the Lord to untangle your heart from any wounds and replace them with His truth, love, and mercy.

Understanding the Mass as a Love Story

Understanding the Mass as a Love Story

Instead of viewing it as an obligatory ritual, what if we came to understand the Mass as love story between God and humanity? Putting aside our desires to zone out...
Why We Believe the Eucharist is Jesus

Why We Believe the Eucharist is Jesus

At the heart of our belief in the Eucharist lies a profound truth: Jesus said so. As Catholics, we believe in Jesus' true presence in the Eucharist is grounded in...
eucharistic revival in the catholic church

Revival in the Catholic Church

There is revival in the Catholic Church, happening right now. Thousands recently gathered in Indianapolis, Indiana for the National Eucharistic Congress led by our bishops, priests, and religious. In the...
How to Live the Mass More Fully - Blessed Is She

How to Live the Mass More Fully

What if we could live the Mass as our highest prayer no matter the circumstance? The stress from work, the drama with friends, the exams nearing at school, the list...
Eucharistic Power // A Poem - Blessed Is She

Eucharistic Power // A Poem

In this Year of the Eucharist, I have constantly been called by Our Lord to visit Him. As a mom of five littles, that doesn’t look like frequent Adoration in...
I Believe // A Poem - Blessed Is She

I Believe // A Poem

We are called to be Christ’s light to the world and to spread the Gospel to all, unabashedly. The Holy Spirit gives us the courage and wisdom to do this...
The Seven Churches Pilgrimage for Holy Thursday - Blessed Is She

The Seven Churches Pilgrimage for Holy Thursday

“ …About to hand Himself over to death, [He] entrusted to the Church a sacrifice new for all eternity, the banquet of His love…” The opening prayer for the Mass...
The (Actual) Essentials of Holiness - Blessed Is She

The (Actual) Essentials of Holiness

“Go where you can love God best.” My spiritual director shared this advice at a Holy Hour for discerning women. The thought rankled me. Shouldn’t I go where I could...
The Ways of the Word - Blessed Is She

The Ways of the Word

This morning, Father approached the ambo, offered the customary greeting and announcement, and began to read the assigned Gospel passage from Mark. As I stood listening, it struck me: “I...