Spiritual Showers Bring Spiritual Flowers
When God created mankind, He gave us five senses. Our senses help us to understand and interact with the physical world around us. Being made in God’s image and likeness,...
Loving God with Our Hearts, Souls, and Minds
We are all invited to be part of the world’s greatest love story. God’s ultimate desire is for us to become one with His complete and perfect love. And if...
MYSTERY: Discovering the Depth of the Rosary
Perhaps the best person to teach us about the life of Christ is His mother, Mary. After all, she was there with Him from the moment of the Incarnation to...
Believing I'm Beloved
I stand in line in the grocery store, and my line of vision drifts to the magazine stand next to me. And suddenly, I’m inundated with images of women. Women...
How to Cultivate Hope When You're Not Feeling It
Many of us are facing the longest, coldest, most dreary part of the year. Winter has us in its grasp and we’re immersed in the penitential season of Lent. Now...
Why I'm Jealous of Converts (and What They Teach Me)
I am a cradle Catholic. There, I said it. I wish I could share my conversion story and tell of an intensely earnest, perhaps even tear-stained journey from where I...
Giving Alms by Shopping Ethically
Almsgiving is one of the most prominent aspects of our Faith’s Lenten practice. We all know that Lent is a time to give more than our norm, and I think...
Maturing in Faith: Childish vs. Childlike Faith
I frequently contemplate the gift of genuine faith, and how it is the foundation of our lives. Yet, so many things yield to mold our faith. For example, different virtues...
When Did I Get to Be Middle-Aged?
It happens at odd times. I’ll look in the car mirror and discover that a few of the hairs above my ear have turned white. Or I’ll do the math...
Using Social Media to Support Your Faith
It's that time of year when everyone is setting resolutions and goals. For many Blessed is She readers, the top items on your list probably have to do with strengthen...
A Gentle Force: Lessons from Christ as the Lion and the Lamb
Sometimes it seems to me that there are two Jesuses depicted in the Gospels: gentle, meek Jesus and passionate, hard-truths Jesus. Gentle Jesus endured indignities, sacrificing His own rights, while...
Meeting Jesus at the Cross and Enduring in Love
Jesus does all things in love. This is something I have really begun to understand and embrace. I feel His love in my triumphs, in the gifts I am given,...
