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The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Blessed Is She

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

  Today is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Today, we celebrate the fact that a tiny red newborn—delivered in less than desirable circumstances to a young peasant girl from...
December 08, 2014
More Than a Piece of Paper - Blessed Is She

More Than a Piece of Paper

  Several weeks ago I ate at an Asian buffet with my fiancé and his family. A few minutes into the meal our server dropped a pile of fortune cookies...
December 07, 2014
Weep No More - Blessed Is She

Weep No More

  You shall weep no more. I have wept in my life. I have cried heavy sobs that have shaken my whole body. The true, snot-dripping, seal-bark-sounding, slobbery, puffy-eyed ugly...
December 06, 2014
Wait for the Lord - Blessed Is She

Wait for the Lord

  I could not see the light. My days were like one long darkness. I was deeply injured by one whom I loved very much. He offered no explanation and...
December 05, 2014
More Than Sand - Blessed Is She

More Than Sand

  We’ve all been to the beach. We’ve all built castles in the sand and then watched the waves come rolling in to shore and pull those castles down. Of...
December 04, 2014
Finding Hope in Our God - Blessed Is She

Finding Hope in Our God

Our God is a compassionate God. He provides for those who follow Him. He provides for those who WAIT for Him. That is really what Advent is all about, the...
December 03, 2014
Knowledge versus Knowing - Blessed Is She

Knowledge versus Knowing

Knowledge versus knowing. Often I find myself caught up in learning all about my faith. I aim to rack up my spiritual know-how rather than spending time on working to...
December 02, 2014
Stop Hedging My Bets - Blessed Is She

Stop Hedging My Bets

  This Gospel is stunning. And how beautiful that in the Roman Rite, we repeat his words when the Eucharist is elevated and presented to us after the Consecration? "Lord,...
December 01, 2014
Let's Be Found Alive - Blessed Is She

Let's Be Found Alive

I have pretty vivid memories of class times that dragged on for far longer than I ever wanted, for papers that never got written due to my boredom/exhaustion breaking through,...
November 30, 2014
Jewels in My Crown - Blessed Is She

Jewels in My Crown

The Gospel today is a toughie. I envision it as a pep talk given to a athletic team that is slacking or not performing to their full potential, the butt...
November 29, 2014
A New Heaven - Blessed Is She

A New Heaven

First Reading: Revelation 20:1-4, 11-21:2 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he...
November 28, 2014
With Praise and Thanksgiving - Blessed Is She

With Praise and Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day First Reading: Sirach 50:22-24 And now bless the God of all, who in every way does great things; who exalts our days from birth, and deals with us...
November 27, 2014