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Evangelization in the Time of Social Media - Blessed Is She

Evangelization in the Time of Social Media

The First Reading today, from the first letter of Saint John, tells us everything we need to know about how to convert our friends on Facebook, Twitter, forums, blogs, and...
January 08, 2015
Differing Kinds of Love - Blessed Is She

Differing Kinds of Love

Love one another. It seems easy enough, doesn't it? But what about those people in our lives who make that commandment from God just a little bit difficult? How do...
January 07, 2015
Lonely and Late and Loved by God - Blessed Is She

Lonely and Late and Loved by God

  This is a lonely place, and the hour is now late. These are the muttering words of the tired disciples to Jesus. But aren't they often our words, too?...
January 06, 2015
Repenting Over and Over Again - Blessed Is She

Repenting Over and Over Again

Phew. Today's readings really pack a punch. We have Saint John's very deep and complex words about what it means to live in God alongside the first words spoken publicly...
January 05, 2015
Let Your Light Shine - Blessed Is She

Let Your Light Shine

Today we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany, a day were we recall the manifestation of Jesus to the world. In the Gospel passage, we are reminded of this mystery...
January 04, 2015
God's Daughter - Blessed Is She

God's Daughter

  Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for...
January 03, 2015
We Can Abide in Jesus - Blessed Is She

We Can Abide in Jesus

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. I can still feel...
January 02, 2015
She Adopts Us All - Blessed Is She

She Adopts Us All

He's here. The babe in the manger. The God//Man. He has arrived to fill up our hearts, to bring the light of God to earth, to make us His people!...
January 01, 2015
This is the End - Blessed Is She

This is the End

First Reading: 1 John 2:18-21 Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that...
December 31, 2014
Leave the Struggles Behind - Blessed Is She

Leave the Struggles Behind

First Reading: 1 John 2:12-17 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him...
December 30, 2014
The Heart of Your Mother - Blessed Is She

The Heart of Your Mother

First Reading: 1 John 2:3-11 And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He who says "I know him" but disobeys his...
December 29, 2014
Acting Out of Love - Blessed Is She

Acting Out of Love

Feast of the Holy Family First Reading: Sirach 3:2-7, 12-14 For the Lord honored the father above the children, and he confirmed the right of the mother over her sons....
December 28, 2014