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Weekly Wallpaper // 339 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 339

Pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. Compete well for the faith. // 1 Timothy 6:12 Let His word dwell in us richly, sisters. Download your F R E...
Saint Pio and the Miracle of Wanda Półtawska - Blessed Is She

Saint Pio and the Miracle of Wanda Półtawska

When we are ready to give up hope, we must persevere. The Saints teach us this. Even the darkest night will not last, and it will—it must—give way to the...
Why I Still Have Facebook - Blessed Is She

Why I Still Have Facebook

I am a repeat Facebook deleter. Since I was allowed to have my first Facebook account as a teenager, I have deleted it multiple times. Now, there are days that...
Walking with Christ on Our Sea’s Swells and Shores - Blessed Is She

Walking with Christ on Our Sea’s Swells and Shores

I had just spent another night sleepily clutching my Bible when I woke up in a rush, unsure if it was the next day or just a few hours later....
Weekly Wallpaper // 338 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 338

No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. // Luke 16:13 Let His word...
5 Ways to Renew Your Prayer Life This Fall - Blessed Is She

5 Ways to Renew Your Prayer Life This Fall

As summer slips away and we get ready to step into autumn, we notice a shift taking place all around us. School has begun for students of all ages. Relaxed...
A Practical Way You Can Exalt the Cross - Blessed Is She

A Practical Way You Can Exalt the Cross

Our parish is a Metropolitan-ish cathedral that is often crowded with tourists. Combine that with our tendency to be right on time for Mass and we often do not get...
The Holy Name of Mary - Blessed Is She

The Holy Name of Mary

I always had a problem with my name growing up. I wondered why my parents didn’t give me an easy-to-pronounce name. Rocio, although beautiful when pronounced rightly in Spanish, felt...
Weekly Wallpaper // 337 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 337

What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds...
Meet the Authors of "Loving God, Loving Others" - Blessed Is She

Meet the Authors of "Loving God, Loving Others"

It's called Loving God, Loving Others: 52 Devotions to Create Connections that Last. We are just thrilled by the stories in this book that walk through six different rungs of...
Searching For the Words of Peace - Blessed Is She

Searching For the Words of Peace

I sat outdoors under Monterey cypress trees on a bench less than ten feet from the drop, looking over the sandy surf of Monterey Bay in California. With my laptop...
Saint Teresa of Calcutta // A Saint in the Darkness - Blessed Is She

Saint Teresa of Calcutta // A Saint in the Darkness

In Something Beautiful for God, the British Journalist Malcolm Muggeridge wrote about an exhilarating experience while filming a documentary on Mother Teresa in 1967. The film crew had arrived at...