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In His Heart: The 2020 Prayer Pledge // Day 31 - Blessed Is She

In His Heart: The 2020 Prayer Pledge // Day 31

Honoring the Sacred Heart in the world is a practice of both/and. We have interior work to do, which naturally permeates to the external, and back again. Already this week we have examined the ways that we might conform our hearts to the Sacred Heart through imitation and prayer, animated and nurtured by God’s deep love for us. The other half of this devotion is active...
In His Heart: The 2020 Prayer Pledge // Day 30 - Blessed Is She

In His Heart: The 2020 Prayer Pledge // Day 30

Recently, I was listening to a homily by Fr. Mike Schmitz in which he recounts a comment he heard by a choir member one morning at Mass. She leaned over and, looking out at the gathered community, whispered to her neighbor: “I see dead people.†You know what she means...
In His Heart: The 2020 Prayer Pledge // Day 29 - Blessed Is She

In His Heart: The 2020 Prayer Pledge // Day 29

There are two striking touch points that Pope St. John Paul II includes in this excerpt which I find comforting: encounter and the heart. Pope Francis has been describing a "culture of encounter" since the beginning of his papacy in 2013—the idea that we are changed by engaging our Faith in the world and the people in it. He says, “Whenever we encounter another person in love, we discover something new about God.†We know this to be true in our own experience, whether we can relate to these discoveries in terms of our best friends, or those whose opinions and perspectives challenge us most deeply. If we’re lucky, these attributes can be true of the same people...
In His Heart: The 2020 Prayer Pledge // Day 28 - Blessed Is She

In His Heart: The 2020 Prayer Pledge // Day 28

“The world will be saved by beauty,†we hear. These words consoled Dorothy Day, which tell us a great deal about the needs of the human spirit. In her houses of hospitality in New York City during the Great Depression and beyond, she witnessed the ugliness of poverty and addiction on a daily basis. She knew what it meant to long for and to be filled by beauty...
Greta Gerwig's Little Women + What I Wish I Could Tell Jo - Blessed Is She

Greta Gerwig's Little Women + What I Wish I Could Tell Jo

I still remember all the feelings I had when reading Little Women by Lousia May Alcott for the first time. The writing, the story, and the characters were all so...
Behind the Scenes of Blessed is She // Tools + Tech - Blessed Is She

Behind the Scenes of Blessed is She // Tools + Tech

We're often asked a variety of questions about what the Blessed is She ministry uses to make videos, downloads, and so on. So we're pulling back the tech-y curtain—come on...
The Deeper Meaning of Your Favorite Christmas Movies - Blessed Is She

The Deeper Meaning of Your Favorite Christmas Movies

I have loved old, classic movies from the time I was a little girl. I prided myself on being a film aficionado, memorizing the dialogue and finding out random facts...
BIS Reviews: The Lion King - Blessed Is She

BIS Reviews: The Lion King

After turning on the news and seeing all of the turmoil that is going on in the world, it's easy to think that the world has abandoned God altogether. It’s...
What to Watch on Formed - Blessed Is She

What to Watch on Formed

This past Easter Sunday, my father called to wish me a happy Easter. It was such a gift to hear his voice and to catch up with him. I remember...
The Feminine Genius in Art - Blessed Is She

The Feminine Genius in Art

On a rainy May afternoon I ducked out of the drizzle through the double glass doors of the Mistlin Art Gallery in the city’s historic downtown to join an intimate...
Foodie Shows to Watch on Netflix (and How They Show Us the Beauty of Creation + Community) - Blessed Is She

Foodie Shows to Watch on Netflix (and How They Show Us the Beauty of Creation + Community)

I like food, especially a good sweet treat. But I know I need the personal accountability of a plan like following Weight Watchers. I find it helps me have a...
BIS Reviews: Evergreen - Blessed Is She

BIS Reviews: Evergreen

We at Blessed is She were given the awesome opportunity to preview a new feature film made by a Catholic indie filmmaker, Tanner Kalina. His movie, Evergreen, recently won several...