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We Are All Tax Collectors - Blessed Is She

We Are All Tax Collectors

When I was seven, a classmate accused me of stealing her bracelet. In fact, she had given it to me earlier that day and I, in turn, donated it to...
February 21, 2015
WHY? - Blessed Is She

WHY?

Why do you fast? Fasting is both an Old Testament and New Testament practice. We mostly look to it as imitating Christ's 40 days of temptation and trial in the...
February 20, 2015
Choose Life - Blessed Is She

Choose Life

You already did it today. When you rolled over and kissed your husband good morning. Or when you threw on that old bathrobe and trooped down the hall to feed...
February 19, 2015
Changing Our Hearts Publicly and Privately - Blessed Is She

Changing Our Hearts Publicly and Privately

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. Return to me with all your heart. Rend your garments. Proclaim a fast, blow the trumpets, bring the nursing babies . . ....
February 18, 2015
Build a Listening Heart - Blessed Is She

Build a Listening Heart

The story of Noah's Ark is a favorite with my young children. I do a rather dramatic reading from their children's Bible (which has surprisingly mature content for a kid's...
February 17, 2015
Hey, Jealousy - Blessed Is She

Hey, Jealousy

Ah, jealousy. That little insidious little soul killer. Every time I think I'm doing well, it trips me up again. I catch a glimpse of that lovely mom with the...
February 16, 2015
Jesus Heals the Leper - Blessed Is She

Jesus Heals the Leper

I remember helping in RCIA at my parish in Los Angeles, and we had broken out into small groups. In my small group, one of the candidates was reflecting on...
February 15, 2015
Overcoming the Desert in My Soul - Blessed Is She

Overcoming the Desert in My Soul

How can one feed these men with bread here in the desert? Mark 8:4 How, indeed? Not only were the disciples nearly empty-handed (only seven loaves for several men? probably...
February 14, 2015
Jesus Makes Whole - Blessed Is She

Jesus Makes Whole

And they heard the sound of the Lord God, walking in the garden. Genesis 3:8 Can you imagine what it must have been like in the garden of Eden, before...
February 13, 2015
Walking in His Ways - Blessed Is She

Walking in His Ways

First Reading: Genesis 2:18-25 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him." So out...
February 12, 2015
The Breath of Life - Blessed Is She

The Breath of Life

First Reading: Genesis 2:4-9, 15-17 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and...
February 11, 2015
What A Wonderful World - Blessed Is She

What A Wonderful World

First Reading: Genesis 1:20--2:4 And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens." So...
February 10, 2015