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Prayer Pledge // Day 22 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge // Day 22

Week Four // Prayer for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, Divine Consoler, I adore You as my true God, with God the Father and God the Son....
Prayer Pledge // Day 21 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge // Day 21

Week Four // Prayer for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, Divine Consoler, I adore You as my true God, with God the Father and God the Son....
Prayer Pledge // Day 20 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge // Day 20

Week Four // Prayer for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, Divine Consoler, I adore You as my true God, with God the Father and God the Son....
Living Liturgically During Advent - Blessed Is She

Living Liturgically During Advent

Advent is, by its very nature, a season of waiting and anticipation, not a destination. But to me this year, it does have a sense of being a “grand finale.”...
How to Cultivate the Practice of Praying the Rosary Daily - Blessed Is She

How to Cultivate the Practice of Praying the Rosary Daily

Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat: I am far from perfect at praying the Rosary daily. I put my worldly obligations and my messy kitchen and Instagram...
Sanctify + Love - Blessed Is She

Sanctify + Love

O my God! I offer Thee all my actions of this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I desire to sanctify every...
How to Find Catholic Friends in College - Blessed Is She

How to Find Catholic Friends in College

My college journey led me to three different schools over five years as I refined my major, and then transferred until I landed on the right program for me. While...
How St. Zélie Taught Me How to Be a Mother - Blessed Is She

How St. Zélie Taught Me How to Be a Mother

It started, as life changes often do, with an ugly-cry-in-the-shower session. My son was three months old and we had just returned from spending Christmas with my family on the...
Seeking Conversion in the Beauty of Ordinary Time - Blessed Is She

Seeking Conversion in the Beauty of Ordinary Time

When you set a goal to eat healthily and turn to resources to help you do so, one theme you’ll see repeatedly is that the green smoothies and salads you...
Learning to Love Jesus with St. Gemma Galgani - Blessed Is She

Learning to Love Jesus with St. Gemma Galgani

Let us run to Jesus, Heart of Love, Heart full of tenderness. Let us ask Jesus to give us the riches of His pure love—to breathe only for love, to...
Ideas for Displaying Palm Sunday Palms Around Your Home - Blessed Is She

Ideas for Displaying Palm Sunday Palms Around Your Home

Sisters, please tell me I am not the only one who has, admittedly more than once in my life, lost a palm from Palm Sunday. Some time in between folding...
Advent and Christmas Traditions to Start as Newlyweds - Blessed Is She

Advent and Christmas Traditions to Start as Newlyweds

My first married Christmas was the first one I had ever spent outside of my parents’ house. It was always my own bed that I woke up in far too...