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Prayer Pledge 2018: Wrap Up // The Morning Offering - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2018: Wrap Up // The Morning Offering

The Morning Offering O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day for all the intentions of your Sacred...
Becoming the Palace of God - Blessed Is She

Becoming the Palace of God

Most of the time when I receive Jesus in a tiny white host, I wish that I could just hold Him in the palm of my hands a little bit...
Trust + Acceptance - Blessed Is She

Trust + Acceptance

The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost Heart. This cross He now sends...
The 2018 FOCUS Student Leadership Summit (SLS) - Blessed Is She

The 2018 FOCUS Student Leadership Summit (SLS)

I spent my college years at a small state school without much of a Newman Center. I found some community at the Baptist Student Union, went to daily Mass when...
Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 5 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 5

A Prayer for Priests and Bishops O God, who has appointed Your only-begotten Son to be the eternal High Priest for the glory of Your Majesty and the salvation of...
Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 4 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 4

Litany of St. Paul Antiphon: Thou hast proved me and known me: Thou hast known my sitting down and my rising up. V. The great Saint Paul, the vessel of...
Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 3 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 3

Novena for the Presentation of the Lord This novena starts on January 24 and ends on February 1. O Blessed Mother of God, who went up to the Temple according...
The 2018 Lent Journal: An Interview with the Author - Blessed Is She

The 2018 Lent Journal: An Interview with the Author

Lent begins in just a few weeks, and once again, your Blessed is She sisterhood is excited to walk through this rich liturgical season with you. In an effort to...
Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 2 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 2

Collect Prayer for the feast of St. Vincent of Saragossa Almighty ever-living God, mercifully pour out your Spirit upon us, so that our hearts may possess the strong love by...
Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 1 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2018: Supplication // Day 1

Day of Prayer for the Unborn - A Prayer for Life by St. Pope John Paul II O Mary, bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to...
Set Your Own Lands: Sanctifying the Small - Blessed Is She

Set Your Own Lands: Sanctifying the Small

I have to confess, I’m not a big news follower. I get my 3-minute blip from the local NPR station, and sometimes even that is too much (especially if the...
Growing + Changing - Blessed Is She

Growing + Changing

Another morning and I wake with thirst for the goodness I do not have. I walk out to the pond and all the way God has given us such beautiful...