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Breaking the Binge - Blessed Is She

Breaking the Binge

I recently got a Netflix account. I know, it’s been around a while. But I have been trying to avoid it, as I have heard so many people talk about...
Living Lent When Your Life is in Transition - Blessed Is She

Living Lent When Your Life is in Transition

As I’m writing this, I am 34 weeks pregnant. My to-do list feels a mile long, filled with tasks varying in importance from “hang pictures in the nursery” to “install...
Books to Read During Lent - Blessed Is She

Books to Read During Lent

Am I the only one wondering how Lent has already arrived? It feels like just yesterday I was decorating my Christmas tree and enjoying White Christmas with a mug of...
Choosing a Theme for Lent - Blessed Is She

Choosing a Theme for Lent

Coming up with something to give up for Lent was easy as a child. I would give up my soda habit and tease my brother for his foolish lack of...
Unexpected Challenges of the Promised Land - Blessed Is She

Unexpected Challenges of the Promised Land

Our daughter often falls asleep on the drive home from Mass. Sadly, she is not the kind of toddler who can be transferred from car to bed once she has...
Here, Too: The 2020 Lent Devotional for Catholic Women - Blessed Is She

Here, Too: The 2020 Lent Devotional for Catholic Women

As we close the Advent and Christmas seasons, we enter a brief but beautiful moment of Ordinary Time. And then, in just a matter of weeks, our journey to the...
The BIS Lent Journal + Prison Ministry - Blessed Is She

The BIS Lent Journal + Prison Ministry

This year during Lent, the founder of Blessed is She, Jenna Guizar, donated some of our Lent Journals to a local prison ministry who serves women in the local prison....
Good Friday in Art - Blessed Is She

Good Friday in Art

One of the gifts of Catholicism, because of the primacy of the Incarnation, is the importance of the human person. Our Faith acknowledges that we are not just spiritual beings....
What's Next After Advent and Lent? - Blessed Is She

What's Next After Advent and Lent?

If you have enjoyed walking through Lent or Advent with the thousands of other women doing the Blessed is She liturgical journals, you may be wondering what's next. How can...
When Easter Sunday Feels Like Good Friday - Blessed Is She

When Easter Sunday Feels Like Good Friday

By and large, the Easter Sundays I have celebrated these past thirty-some years have spanned the spectrum and landed primarily on the joyful side. As a child, Easter joy made...
Friday Meals for Families During Lent - Blessed Is She

Friday Meals for Families During Lent

Growing up, when Lent rolled around, Friday dinners were always bean and cheese burrito nights. Now, I’m not complaining! Feeding a family of nine is never an easy task. However,...
A Reflective Lenten Playlist - Blessed Is She

A Reflective Lenten Playlist

Music. It’s an art form that never ceases to move me closer to the Heart of the Father. I’ve found that my faith life blossoms and grows with music. The...