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RETURN Series // An Introduction + Invitation - Blessed Is She

RETURN Series // An Introduction + Invitation

In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. // John 14:2 Typically, when I read John 14 and meditate on how it applies to my life, it comes from...
3 Ways to Cultivate Devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus - Blessed Is She

3 Ways to Cultivate Devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus

In the 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ, there is a poignant scene after the brutal scourging at the pillar. Jesus’ bloody Body is dragged away from the pillar,...
7 Surefire Signs He’s in Love with You - Blessed Is She

7 Surefire Signs He’s in Love with You

Love is a radical force that can profoundly transform our lives. Its initial moments might feel like sipping fizzling bottled-up sunshine on a July afternoon—captivating, sweeping us off our feet,...
What Saint Elizabeth Taught Me About Waiting - Blessed Is She

What Saint Elizabeth Taught Me About Waiting

Right next to the pew I grew up in is a stained glass window of the Visitation. The image filled with hues of blue depicts Saint Elizabeth pregnant with Saint...
5 Lessons I Learned From the Life of Venerable Antoinetta Meo - Blessed Is She

5 Lessons I Learned From the Life of Venerable Antoinetta Meo

I was fourteen years old when I learned that I was losing part of my left leg to a rare form of cancer called Myxoid Liposarcoma. To this day, the...
Monthly Wallpaper from Blessed is She // 366 - Blessed Is She

Monthly Wallpaper from Blessed is She // 366

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Continuing to Foster Love for the Eucharist After First Communion - Blessed Is She

Continuing to Foster Love for the Eucharist After First Communion

“Congratulations on making your First Communion!” our pastor announced to the almost 100 elementary-aged kids at our parish on a recent Saturday morning. “Now when will your second Communion be?” ...
Our Lady of Perpetual Help - Blessed Is She

Our Lady of Perpetual Help

I was sitting at my desk when someone said, “You’re surrounded!” Sure enough, there, on three walls in my office, was Our Lady of Perpetual Help, only one image of...
The Painter's Project - Blessed Is She

The Painter's Project

I’m lost in what could or couldn’t be. Not what is. I’m painting myself.  Let me be Your canvas. Paint me with colors untold to eyes; make art in me. You, Painter of painters,...
St. John of the Cross - Blessed Is She

St. John of the Cross

An Irishman taught me about the Spanish mystic, Saint John of the Cross, and I can’t imagine a better teacher. I learned from Irish Dominican Professor, Father Paul Murray, a...
Do You Want To Be Healed? - Blessed Is She

Do You Want To Be Healed?

Jesus looks us in the eyes and asks us gently, “Do you want to be healed?” He gazes at us, not seeing our brokenness, but knowing the depths of our...
An Ode To My Savior - Blessed Is She

An Ode To My Savior

Jesus’ love for me is effortless. Aboundingly rich in grace and mercy. Jesus, I come to You to liberate me of sin, Imploring You to forgive Me of my faults...