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3 Prayers to Say After Receiving Communion - Blessed Is She

3 Prayers to Say After Receiving Communion

My First Holy Communion day was one of the most memorable days of my childhood. I had a private Mass said just for me, and my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 6 - Blessed Is She

Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 6

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...
The Practice of Counting Daily Gratefuls - Blessed Is She

The Practice of Counting Daily Gratefuls

I was driving home from Mass one Sunday this summer. A friend suddenly was unable to attend our plans for a concert at a local church. She had double booked...
The Prayer Before Meals - Blessed Is She

The Prayer Before Meals

There’s a pretty funny meme about our Grace Before Meals that’s been making the rounds lately. In the background is the painting of an old man with his hands folded...
Weekly Wallpaper // 202 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 202

But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays. // Malachi 3:20 Download these beautiful free wallpapers from Abigail Katherine Rose...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 5 - Blessed Is She

Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 5

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 Feast of St. Giuseppe Moscati - Blessed Is She

On the Feast of St. Giuseppe Moscati

A Saint is a person in Heaven who lived a virtuous life in a heroic way for the Faith and who is worthy of imitation. It is pleasing to God...
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...