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Epiphany // Uninvited Guests + Savvy Star-Gazers - Blessed Is She

Epiphany // Uninvited Guests + Savvy Star-Gazers

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the culmination of Christmastide is celebrated at last during the arrival of the Magi. Gifts aren’t exchanged among families until the Christ-Child would have received...
Saint Andrew's Town by the Sea - Blessed Is She

Saint Andrew's Town by the Sea

If there are any avid golfers in your life, you may have heard of the seaside town of St. Andrews on the coast of Scotland. Did you know that this...
Saint Quotes for Broken Families - Blessed Is She

Saint Quotes for Broken Families

This time of year often stirs up a variety of feelings about family depending on your family situation. We live in a broken world and sometimes the most broken people...
Who's at Your Thanksgiving Table this Year? - Blessed Is She

Who's at Your Thanksgiving Table this Year?

We are moved to give during the Christmas season and may restrain from going overboard on the Christmas gifts because of our awareness of others going without. Our culture emphasizes...
2021 Blessed is She Gift Guide - Blessed Is She

2021 Blessed is She Gift Guide

2022 Liturgical Planner | Saintly Scents Candles | Emmanuel Christmas Devotional Miraculous Medal Earrings | BIS Water Bottle | Lined Journals Nunc Coepi: A Year of Prayer | Tiny Saints...
BIS Reads // Simple Mercies - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads // Simple Mercies

When I look at the lives of the Saints, I see an ocean of personalities, vocations, experiences, and spiritualities. I marvel at the creativity of God and His goodness in...
BIS Reads // Graced and Gifted - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads // Graced and Gifted

Just as it took me a couple of years to settle in to motherhood, it took me some time to settle in to homemaking. Neither motherhood nor homemaking came naturally...
BIS Reads // Theology of Home II - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads // Theology of Home II

When my oldest son turned two, I made him a three-car train cake out of banana breads baked in different-sized rectangular loaf pans. I even carved out a space for...
College 101 Series // Roommates - Blessed Is She

College 101 Series // Roommates

I honestly don’t know how many first-year students this blog will be relevant to in 2020. Covid-19 has forced many students to Zoom from home verses zoom across the country...
Sunday Fun for Faith-Filled Families - Blessed Is She

Sunday Fun for Faith-Filled Families

Four months into the monotony of working from home, I find myself asking the question at least once every twenty-four hours, “What day is it again?” My confusion is probably...
Everyday Evangelization: Subtle Ways to Preach the Gospel - Blessed Is She

Everyday Evangelization: Subtle Ways to Preach the Gospel

If your friend circles include folks who are Protestant, chances are that you have had the privilege of listening to them share their testimony—a personal accounting of how they committed...
Ways to Celebrate Mother's Day When Your Mom is Far Away - Blessed Is She

Ways to Celebrate Mother's Day When Your Mom is Far Away

Since becoming a mother myself, Mother’s Day has become one of my favorite days. Not only because it’s a day that I feel honored and celebrated in my own vocation...