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St. Gertrude + the Souls in Purgatory - Blessed Is She

St. Gertrude + the Souls in Purgatory

A handful of Saints within Catholicism have been given the title “Great.” Most recently canonized is Pope St. John Paul the Great, but there’s also St. Albert the Great, St....
Charity is Theology - Blessed Is She

Charity is Theology

During a conversation with a soon-to-be ordained priest, he told me that he looks forward to writing homilies now that he will no longer be giving reflections in class but...
Spiritual Amnesia: The Problem of Forgetting What God Has Done - Blessed Is She

Spiritual Amnesia: The Problem of Forgetting What God Has Done

“I feel so far from Jesus.” Sigh. “If only He would make Himself known to me,” I lamented to my husband as I collapsed in a heap onto our bed....
Weekly Wallpaper // 201 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 201

He is not God of the dead, but of the living. // Luke 20:38a Download these beautiful free wallpapers from Sarah Ann Design from today's readings. Let His word dwell...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 4 - Blessed Is She

Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 4

Our 2019 Advent Journal, All the Generations: From Genesis to You, is an offering written by our entire Blessed is She team! For the first time this year, we will...
On the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran - Blessed Is She

On the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran

Today is the feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran! So why do we care so much about a building in Rome that we dedicate an...
Making Friends with the Saints - Blessed Is She

Making Friends with the Saints

Following Christ sometimes feels like a lonely road as we make career decisions that cause people to scratch their heads, as we date or lead our families counter-culturally, and as...
Longing for Heaven + Living on Earth - Blessed Is She

Longing for Heaven + Living on Earth

I want everything to be perfect. I've always been a perfectionist. Some people see this as a bad thing, and in some ways it can be. Sometimes I obsess over...
How Jesus Won My Heart through Eucharistic Adoration - Blessed Is She

How Jesus Won My Heart through Eucharistic Adoration

A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent in sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. - Saint Padre Pio   What does...
Forming Holiday Traditions that are Rooted in the Faith - Blessed Is She

Forming Holiday Traditions that are Rooted in the Faith

Walk into any store or tune into any radio station, and you would think Christmas is next week. The minute Halloween is over, Christmas is here. Never mind that it’s...
Weekly Wallpaper // 200 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 200

But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook sins for the sake of repentance. // Wisdom 11:23 Download these beautiful free wallpapers from...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 3 - Blessed Is She

Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 3

Our 2019 Advent Journal, All the Generations: From Genesis to You, is an offering written by our entire Blessed is She team! For the first time this year, we will...