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Blessed Chats: Vocational Discernment // Being Someone's Calling - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Vocational Discernment // Being Someone's Calling

Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
Blessed Chats: Single Women // Prayer - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Single Women // Prayer

Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
Blessed Chats: Single Women // What I Had to Unlearn (and Relearn) About Dating - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Single Women // What I Had to Unlearn (and Relearn) About Dating

Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
Blessed Chats: Single Women // Out of the Dating Dumps - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Single Women // Out of the Dating Dumps

Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
Being a Catholic Witness in the Workplace - Blessed Is She

Being a Catholic Witness in the Workplace

It was an ordinary day at work. Svend was frantically shuffling through the papers, his eyes fixated but his body language giving way to the tension that filled the air....
Blessed Chats: Fertility // Infertility - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Fertility // Infertility

Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
Blessed Chats: Addiction // Alcohol - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Addiction // Alcohol

Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
Mourning the Life You Envisioned - Blessed Is She

Mourning the Life You Envisioned

“Let go of the life you imagined for the life God has ready for you.” How many times have you heard, or read, some version of those words? It seems...
Living as a Cloistered Cistercian Nun - Blessed Is She

Living as a Cloistered Cistercian Nun

Valley of Our Lady Monastery is a community of Cistercian nuns who live a life of contemplative prayer according to the Rule of St. Benedict and the traditions of the...
Student Loan Debt + Working in Ministry - Blessed Is She

Student Loan Debt + Working in Ministry

Soon after my conversion in 8th grade, I knew I was being called to serve God through His Church. I wasn’t sure what this service would look like, but soon...
Making Friends with the Saints - Blessed Is She

Making Friends with the Saints

Following Christ sometimes feels like a lonely road as we make career decisions that cause people to scratch their heads, as we date or lead our families counter-culturally, and as...
Life as a Consecrated Virgin - Blessed Is She

Life as a Consecrated Virgin

I have always had big dreams. I was one of those kids that had a crazy answer to what they wanted to be when they grew up. While other kids...