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Living Prepared for Him - Blessed Is She

Living Prepared for Him

“Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy from carousing and drunkenness and the anxieties of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.” // Luke...
November 26, 2022
Humility Is the Entire Point - Blessed Is She

Humility Is the Entire Point

“But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, 'O God, be merciful to me...
October 23, 2022
Deeply Seen and Loved as a Woman - Blessed Is She

Deeply Seen and Loved as a Woman

Accompanying him were the Twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities. // Luke 8:2 Every time we as women have felt badly treated by...
September 16, 2022
The Wide Reach of God's Love - Blessed Is She

The Wide Reach of God's Love

When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. // Matthew 14:13 I have never experienced grief and...
August 01, 2022
The Choked Seeds - Blessed Is She

The Choked Seeds

“Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it.” // Matthew 13:7 I feel like I’ve sat down and spoke to God many times about the...
July 20, 2022
The Life-Changing Eucharist - Blessed Is She

The Life-Changing Eucharist

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. // 1 Corinthians 11:26 The Catholic short-story writer...
June 19, 2022
Grace to Serve - Blessed Is She

Grace to Serve

After she and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home,” and she...
May 23, 2022
The God of Deeper Understandings - Blessed Is She

The God of Deeper Understandings

He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” // Luke 24:17 Today I’m struck by the fact that Jesus asks these men walking the lonely road to...
April 20, 2022
Choose God's Voice First - Blessed Is She

Choose God's Voice First

"How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?" // John 5:44 About this time every...
March 31, 2022
Dreams That End - Blessed Is She

Dreams That End

The LORD said to Samuel: “How long will you grieve for Saul, whom I have rejected as king of Israel?" // 1 Samuel 16:1 Back in the days of my...
January 18, 2022
Speak to My Heart - Blessed Is She

Speak to My Heart

“She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” // Matthew 1:21 A few Christmases ago, at Christmas...
December 18, 2021
Pray in Faith for Our Dead - Blessed Is She

Pray in Faith for Our Dead

On the feast of All Souls, the thought of the death of a close family member or friend constricts my heart. As Catholics, we profess the resurrection of the dead...
November 02, 2021