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The Passion of the Lord - Blessed Is She

The Passion of the Lord

I remember being nine or ten years old, not yet fully aware of the immensity of our faith, but starting to see glimpses of what it meant to be Catholic....
April 03, 2015
Mass of the Lord's Supper - Blessed Is She

Mass of the Lord's Supper

What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand. As Jesus knelt in service to His apostles, washing their (probably stinky and dirty) feet, Peter...
April 02, 2015
I Am Judas - Blessed Is She

I Am Judas

I am Judas. Holy Week brings me back to this reality every year. During this week, I come face-to-face once again with all the ways I betray my Lord and...
April 01, 2015
Courage to Ask for Forgiveness - Blessed Is She

Courage to Ask for Forgiveness

"The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name." One of you will betray me. One of you whom I called from...
March 31, 2015
My Everything - Blessed Is She

My Everything

“Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the...
March 30, 2015
Paradox of the Easter People - Blessed Is She

Paradox of the Easter People

Palm Sunday is such a meaningful day it almost feels like a collision of all we believe. Here we have Christ entering Jerusalem for the last time, people are welcoming...
March 29, 2015
The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts - Blessed Is She

The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts

The other day I made banana bread. We had a few bananas that were past their prime and had that brown, mushy quality that is perfect for bread. It was...
March 28, 2015
Let Him Lead Us - Blessed Is She

Let Him Lead Us

The word "tango" in today’s Gospel can easily leave us scratching our heads. What’s all this back and forth between Jesus and the Jews about gods and blasphemy and technicalities,...
March 27, 2015
I Am Not, But HE Is - Blessed Is She

I Am Not, But HE Is

"I Am." It is such a simple and profound and mind-boggling truth: literally everything in our world will change or fade away except our God. Only He is ever-present and...
March 26, 2015
Signs of Grace - Blessed Is She

Signs of Grace

What a gift we have to be children of a loving God who knows us so well. How often we desire a sign from our Lord. We don’t want to...
March 25, 2015
I Choose Lord - Blessed Is She

I Choose Lord

When Jesus is speaking to the crowds, or His disciples, or His close group of Apostles, so often I think, what does that mean?? And the Gospel makes clear that...
March 24, 2015
Go, And Do Not Sin Again - Blessed Is She

Go, And Do Not Sin Again

In case you were wondering, I was named for the Susanna in the chapter 8 of Saint Luke’s Gospel, but from my earliest consciousness of the book of Daniel, I...
March 23, 2015