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Where is Your Poverty? - Blessed Is She

Where is Your Poverty?

Sometimes, poverty doesn’t look like people reaching their hands out asking for a meal. Sometimes, poverty is something that resides deep in the heart. In today’s Gospel, Jesus cautions "woe"...
February 17, 2019
A New Little One in the Garden - Blessed Is She

A New Little One in the Garden

Today marks the due date of my fourth niece. Depending on when this little one actually chooses to arrive, my brother and sister-in-law are either awaiting her birth in great...
February 16, 2019
Our Only Good - Blessed Is She

Our Only Good

The movie Titanic came out when I was in the sixth grade, and I was the only one of my friends who was not allowed to watch it. My parents...
February 15, 2019
Silence Those Inner Critics - Blessed Is She

Silence Those Inner Critics

As I stared in the mirror, tears streaming down my face, I hated what I was seeing. There I was, two months postpartum with a milk-stained nursing tank top, stretch...
February 14, 2019
Looking Behind the Resolutions at the Intention - Blessed Is She

Looking Behind the Resolutions at the Intention

Here we are, one month and a half into the new year. At the beginning of each year, I picture where I want to be at the end of the...
February 13, 2019
The Gift of Creation - Blessed Is She

The Gift of Creation

I’m a maker by nature. I love to take raw materials or half-baked ideas and bring them fully into existence. When I am watching a movie, you’ll find me knitting....
February 12, 2019
Throwing Elbows and Hoping to Be Healed - Blessed Is She

Throwing Elbows and Hoping to Be Healed

Today’s feast might make some of us a bit squirmy. The beautiful feast of Our Lady of Lourdes is often marked with meditations on the miraculous healing accomplished by Christ,...
February 11, 2019
So Lovable, So Valuable - Blessed Is She

So Lovable, So Valuable

There I sat: layers of warm clothing, a sloppy ponytail, a mermaid blanket on my lap, and a sick bucket in my hands. My husband had just tucked in the...
February 10, 2019
Walking With Those Who Suffer - Blessed Is She

Walking With Those Who Suffer

I remember when I first looked, really looked, at Psalm 23. It was the day of the 2013 Boston marathon bombings, a day of horrifying carnage and death. Looking for...
February 09, 2019
Love Continues Beyond It All - Blessed Is She

Love Continues Beyond It All

It was a very challenging time for me and I was struggling. I had been hurt deeply by the words and actions of someone whom I loved. A friend sat...
February 08, 2019
He's Got What I Need - Blessed Is She

He's Got What I Need

When my friend called in tears, after suffering a terrible loss, I felt so sad and broken, as though I had nothing to offer to comfort her. Being thousands of...
February 07, 2019
This Wild, Charming Love for You and Me - Blessed Is She

This Wild, Charming Love for You and Me

A few days ago I heard the most amazing thing while listening to a Catholic podcast that I love. The priest speaking was giving a mediation on the Incarnation and...
February 06, 2019