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Returning in Radical Restoration - Blessed Is She

Returning in Radical Restoration

I often think about moments of radical healing, like the one from today’s Gospel, as rare and unseen in our ordinary everyday stories. Truthfully, I have read this Gospel countless...
November 14, 2018
Overmuch, Saint Paul? - Blessed Is She

Overmuch, Saint Paul?

Nobody likes feeling put down, dealing with others tarnishing their good name and discrediting their standing. Imagine for a minute what Jesus feels like when we persist in sin, allowing...
November 13, 2018
Increase Our Faith - Blessed Is She

Increase Our Faith

At the time I write this devotion, I am taking part in a nationwide period of fasting and prayer for healing in the Church. I pray that these months later...
November 12, 2018
Offering Your Little "Nothings" - Blessed Is She

Offering Your Little "Nothings"

At very low times during my struggle with chronic illness, I have felt that the little I had to give was not important, valuable, or able to serve much purpose....
November 11, 2018
Abundant Living 101 - Blessed Is She

Abundant Living 101

Raised to be a reader, I have always loved learning about the meaning behind words. I am fascinated by them. As a little girl I would dream up and write...
November 10, 2018
Who Is Your Rock? - Blessed Is She

Who Is Your Rock?

Today we celebrate the dedication of The Basilica of Saint John Lateran. It is affectionately referred to as “the mother and mistress of all churches of Rome and the world”...
November 09, 2018
Single Lost Sheep: That's Me - Blessed Is She

Single Lost Sheep: That's Me

Have you ever witnessed a shepherd at work as he or she corrals clueless sheep toward gates of safety? Ever watched a shepherd lead her flock across dangerous mountain ranges...
November 08, 2018
My Grip on the Cross of Life - Blessed Is She

My Grip on the Cross of Life

Have you ever seen a wooden cross carved with vines and flowers? Pretty as they can be, it is odd to see an instrument of death blooming and bursting with...
November 07, 2018
To Do: Receive His Invitation - Blessed Is She

To Do: Receive His Invitation

I’m a doer. If I don’t have a running to-do list, errands to run, or people to touch base with, I automatically feel as though I am not doing enough,...
November 06, 2018
My #goals, God's #goals - Blessed Is She

My #goals, God's #goals

I said a quick prayer to the Holy Spirit and dove into the Mass readings for today. Saint Paul gave me pause in his letter to the Romans when he...
November 05, 2018
How Far Are You from the Kingdom? - Blessed Is She

How Far Are You from the Kingdom?

It has been sixteen years since I sat in Sister Lucy’s classroom. To this day I clearly remember her picking up a piece of white chalk and writing Sh’ma on...
November 04, 2018
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam - Blessed Is She

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

"For Your glory, Lord," I pray between breaths as I push myself to keeping running. "May my run and my day be spent for Your glory. Be magnified in me....
November 03, 2018