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Want to Build Your Faith? Speak the Truth. - Blessed Is She

Want to Build Your Faith? Speak the Truth.

Do I know Jesus? Do I truly know Jesus with my heart? We tend to grow indifferent to the Lord as we live out each day, sometimes in subtle ways...
REMEMBER Series // A Miraculous Mission - Blessed Is She

REMEMBER Series // A Miraculous Mission

Welcome to our Remember series, where we pause to reflect on how God has proven faithful in the past so to help us place our trust in Him in the...
Saint Damien of Molokai // His Heart for Missions - Blessed Is She

Saint Damien of Molokai // His Heart for Missions

White sand beaches, towering sea cliffs, coral reefs, and vacation destination. This might be how some would describe Molokai, Hawaii’s fifth largest island. But one-hundred and fifty years ago, it...
How to Live Out Your Baptismal Call of Priest, Prophet, and King - Blessed Is She

How to Live Out Your Baptismal Call of Priest, Prophet, and King

By virtue of baptism, every Christian is anointed to serve as priest, prophet, and king within their individual communities. But what exactly does this mean? I confess that, even as...
Being a Catholic Witness in the Workplace - Blessed Is She

Being a Catholic Witness in the Workplace

It was an ordinary day at work. Svend was frantically shuffling through the papers, his eyes fixated but his body language giving way to the tension that filled the air....
Healed and Restored - Blessed Is She

Healed and Restored

I first shared my story on Sunday, May 20, 2018: the Feast of Pentecost. That moment came after God sent a number of holy people into my life to help...
How Can My Wounds Speak to My Calling? - Blessed Is She

How Can My Wounds Speak to My Calling?

As I approach my college graduation, more and more conversations have begun circling around this certain topic: what am I supposed to do with my life? What is my vocation?...
Discerning Post-Graduate Service - Blessed Is She

Discerning Post-Graduate Service

If you are considering post-graduate service, you have probably felt some sort of inner calling from God or a desire deep in your heart. Maybe along with that desire, nerves...
BIS Reads // Awaken My Heart: A 52-Week Devotional - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads // Awaken My Heart: A 52-Week Devotional

During the Advent and Christmas seasons, we reflect a lot on "a weary world." The world, at all points in history, has been tired from sin and striving and aching...
College 101 Series // Time Management - Blessed Is She

College 101 Series // Time Management

Suddenly, there is no one pounding on your door or yelling at you to get up and go to school. No one to tell you to go to bed. No...
The Fresh Start Season - Blessed Is She

The Fresh Start Season

Way back in January, most of us were excited to begin a new year and a new decade. Typically, January means a “fresh start” and “clean slate.” It is filled...
What Jeremiah 29:11 and Jane Austen Taught Me About Hope - Blessed Is She

What Jeremiah 29:11 and Jane Austen Taught Me About Hope

Christ is our Hope, in the midst of 2020 and otherwise; through joys and sorrows—through it all. It should come as no surprise, then, that Jeremiah 29:11 is my favorite...