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How to Make Blessings Bags - Blessed Is She

How to Make Blessings Bags

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. - G.K. Chesterton Do I know the poor? Do...
Home for Christmas: Reaching Out to College Students During Holiday Break - Blessed Is She

Home for Christmas: Reaching Out to College Students During Holiday Break

Having a break is absolutely wonderful and completely necessary. We tend to be very busy people, constantly filling our schedule with things to do, ways to make money, people to...
Heavenly Peace: Returning to the Source - Blessed Is She

Heavenly Peace: Returning to the Source

Every time we participate in Mass, our priests offer us the peace of Christ, we offer that heavenly peace back to those around us, and then we pray for peace...
Music from the Heart: Celebrating St. Cecilia - Blessed Is She

Music from the Heart: Celebrating St. Cecilia

If you sing well, sing loudly in order to thank God for the gift He has given you. If you don’t sing well, sing even louder to remind Him of...
Worth Celebrating: St. Elizabeth of Hungary - Blessed Is She

Worth Celebrating: St. Elizabeth of Hungary

I've met my own modern-day St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Mary Jo Copeland is the founder of Sharing and Caring Hands, based in the Twin Cities. Mary Jo began serving the...
Seven Ways to Thrive in Ministry Work - Blessed Is She

Seven Ways to Thrive in Ministry Work

Hi, My Name is MaryRuth and I am addicted to saying "YES." I grew up in a congregational church where everyone had a role and most people had two or...
Suffering and Hope: My Experience at the Casa del Migrante - Blessed Is She

Suffering and Hope: My Experience at the Casa del Migrante

For the first time in all my 19 years of life, I left the United States and entered—body and soul—into a new country. I physically stepped through the San Ysidro...
Ten Tips for Starting a Parish Ministry - Blessed Is She

Ten Tips for Starting a Parish Ministry

We never know why God has called us to do something, but when we feel His call, it is our duty as faithful servants to respond with a loving and...
My Greatest Education: A Year in Service - Blessed Is She

My Greatest Education: A Year in Service

The bus doors opened. An impatient, tired, overnight bus driver sat behind the wheel and looked me over as I stood on the corner like a kid on the first...
The Blessed is She Mission: Unwavering Even in Change - Blessed Is She

The Blessed is She Mission: Unwavering Even in Change

In June of 2014, I was at a loss when I looked around and searched for a women's Catholic community. I knew so many incredible Protestant ones -- women's communities...
Spiritual Darkness - Blessed Is She

Spiritual Darkness

As a child, I used to wonder why we called Good Friday good. As I get older and grow more and more in love with God, days like those of...
Living the Corporal Works of Mercy - Blessed Is She

Living the Corporal Works of Mercy

I'm sure many of you have heard of "The Good Samaritan Experiment." Here's the idea behind the experiment: they gave theology students a presentation to prepare, one group on the...