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3 Saints Who were Wanderers - Blessed Is She

3 Saints Who were Wanderers

Author J.R.R. Tolkein once stated, “Not all who wander are lost.” Many of us might desperately wish that these words were true of us. Adulthood often feels like one long...
Saint Gerard // Relics and Redemptorists - Blessed Is She

Saint Gerard // Relics and Redemptorists

It was just a few weeks into my pregnancy and my nervous self was concerned that I hadn’t yet started feeling pregnancy nausea. “How many weeks along was I when...
Saint Hildegard of Bingen - Blessed Is She

Saint Hildegard of Bingen

I know exactly one person who knew as a child what she wanted to be when she grew up. One. She told us in second grade what she planned to...
Baby Names Inspired by Saint Joseph - Blessed Is She

Baby Names Inspired by Saint Joseph

More and more the Church is coming to a deeper understanding of the irreplaceable role Saint Joseph played in the life of young Jesus. Along with this understanding has come...
Blessed Carlo Acutis: Patron Saint of Online Learning - Blessed Is She

Blessed Carlo Acutis: Patron Saint of Online Learning

Anyone who has been involved with online schooling in any capacity can attest to its challenges. Being a first-year teacher, I knew last school year would be difficult, but nothing...
BIS Reads // Saints Around the World - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads // Saints Around the World

I have a dear friend who is a master when it comes to liturgical living. She is creative and intentional and I'm convinced that crafting is her charism. I am...
Dwell // A Study on the Eucharist for Women - Blessed Is She

Dwell // A Study on the Eucharist for Women

"I need Adoration." My friend's evening text put words to the longing on my own heart. In the midst of the shut downs, our usual Holy Hours were cancelled, and...
Saints Who Lived at the Same Time - Blessed Is She

Saints Who Lived at the Same Time

As a summer girl at heart, I do not need a lot of encouragement to celebrate. Hot days, stormy afternoons, fireworks, ice cream ... I am in! And, I am...
Saint Alphonsus Liguori + Rheumatoid Arthritis - Blessed Is She

Saint Alphonsus Liguori + Rheumatoid Arthritis

I was nineteen and it all happened very gradually. First I was noticing achy knees and feet, but thought it was due to all of the running I had been...
Martha, Martha // Anxious and Worried about Many Things - Blessed Is She

Martha, Martha // Anxious and Worried about Many Things

One time, I snapped at my husband about the day’s Gospel reading. We didn’t hold opposing beliefs. We didn’t interpret a fundamental teaching differently. We simply read the words uttered...
Meeting at the Golden Gate // Saints Joachim and Anne - Blessed Is She

Meeting at the Golden Gate // Saints Joachim and Anne

Imagine having to learn Scripture, not through paging through the pages of your Bible, but by walking into your church and viewing its artwork. The Legend of St. Joachim, Meeting...
The Thing that Happened in Between - Blessed Is She

The Thing that Happened in Between

“I was one way … and now I am completely different. And the thing that happened in between … was Him.” These are my favorite lines from Season 1 of...