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How to Host a Lent Group + Gathering - Blessed Is She

How to Host a Lent Group + Gathering

This year's Lent Journal, To the End, is a little different than journals in the past. It has the same heart, hue, and depthful sharing as years gone by. But...
When + Where to Use the Blessed is She Lent Journal - Blessed Is She

When + Where to Use the Blessed is She Lent Journal

Maybe you’ve already bought the new Blessed is She Lent Journal, To the End, and you’re filled with hopeful anticipation to begin. But you can’t help but wonder if you’ll...
To the End: The 2019 Blessed is She Lent Journal for Women - Blessed Is She

To the End: The 2019 Blessed is She Lent Journal for Women

I don't know about you, but sometimes I approach Lent with a self-improvement mentality. When I think about what to give up, take up, and reflect upon, I tend to...
The Life After: A Poem for Holy Saturday - Blessed Is She

The Life After: A Poem for Holy Saturday

I speak now of the Life After, which I can imagine, and not the AfterLife, which I cannot, although He spoke of it many times. I look up at Him...
Fasting and the Gift of Good Friday - Blessed Is She

Fasting and the Gift of Good Friday

For many of us, Good Friday is a day to get through. No meat, plus fasting, plus something about two small meals and one larger meal, usually equals low energy,...
Lodgepoles: On Holy Thursday - Blessed Is She

Lodgepoles: On Holy Thursday

In another lifetime, I spent a summer working in Yellowstone National Park. I lived with a park ranger, wore a wide-brimmed hat, a khaki button-up shirt with green forest service-issued...
3 Saints to Turn to During Times of Betrayal - Blessed Is She

3 Saints to Turn to During Times of Betrayal

When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples across the Kidron valley, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. Now Judas, who...
Ideas for Displaying Palm Sunday Palms Around Your Home - Blessed Is She

Ideas for Displaying Palm Sunday Palms Around Your Home

Sisters, please tell me I am not the only one who has, admittedly more than once in my life, lost a palm from Palm Sunday. Some time in between folding...
Making Holy Week New - Blessed Is She

Making Holy Week New

Tomorrow, we enter into the holiest week of the Church’s year. If you experienced God’s love and mercy in a new and powerful way this Lent, Holy Week may be...
Renewal and Encouragement for Lent - Blessed Is She

Renewal and Encouragement for Lent

Like a new year, Ash Wednesday can come with excitement, plans, and goals. We are determined that this Lent will be the best Lent ever! Perhaps you had at the...
Giving Alms by Shopping Ethically - Blessed Is She

Giving Alms by Shopping Ethically

Almsgiving is one of the most prominent aspects of our Faith’s Lenten practice. We all know that Lent is a time to give more than our norm, and I think...
3 Ways to Have a Fruitful Lent - Blessed Is She

3 Ways to Have a Fruitful Lent

As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus’ thirst…He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you. -Saint Teresa of...