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Prayer Pledge 2018: Adoration // Day 2 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2018: Adoration // Day 2

A Call to Worship and Obedience O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into...
Prayer Pledge 2018: Adoration // Day 1 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2018: Adoration // Day 1

Act of Love O Lord God, I love you above all things and I love my neighbor for your sake because you are the highest, infinite and perfect good, worthy...
Implementing Daily Jesus Dates in Busy Times - Blessed Is She

Implementing Daily Jesus Dates in Busy Times

There I was, one brisk autumn evening, in the presence of Jesus in Eucharistic Adoration. It had been awhile since I spent an intimate moment with Him. Throughout that past...
2018 Prayer Pledge Introduction - Blessed Is She

2018 Prayer Pledge Introduction

As another year comes to a close, many of us are looking ahead at the new year with hope and resolution. We dream of what 2018 could hold for us...
Weekly Wallpaper // 133 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 133

And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. // Colossians 3:15 Download and share this beautiful wallpaper from...
Holy + Family - Blessed Is She

Holy + Family

Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that our families too may be places of communion and prayer, authentic schools of the Gospel and small domestic churches. Holy Family of Nazareth, may...
Unlikely Blessings: Looking for the Holy Family Today - Blessed Is She

Unlikely Blessings: Looking for the Holy Family Today

The first Christmas I remember receiving Christmas cards addressed to me personally was the year I moved to Denver. Delighted by this very adult practice of sending and receiving Christmas...
Scrupulosity: When Catholic Guilt Goes Wrong - Blessed Is She

Scrupulosity: When Catholic Guilt Goes Wrong

The word scrupulous is usually used to describe someone who is extremely thorough and attentive to detail. It’s meant to be a compliment. However, for many Catholics, being scrupulous is...
What My Dad (and George Bailey) Taught Me About Gratitude - Blessed Is She

What My Dad (and George Bailey) Taught Me About Gratitude

One late spring evening in 2015, I found myself curled up in a recliner at my father’s bedside watching It’s a Wonderful Life. For those of you who haven’t seen...
Setting Meaningful New Year Goals - Blessed Is She

Setting Meaningful New Year Goals

My hope is that you are leaving this year with a sense of love, gratitude, and inspiration, and that you are energized in mind, body, and spirit for all that...
Weekly Wallpaper // 132 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 132

Today... the Church contemplates the Holy Family. At the school of Nazareth every family learns to be a workshop of love, unity and openness to life. // Pope Saint John...
Born + Transformed - Blessed Is She

Born + Transformed

She was five, sure of the facts, and recited them with slow solemnity convinced every word was revelation. She said they were so poor they had only peanut butter and...