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Almsgiving // L'Arche USA - Blessed Is She

Almsgiving // L'Arche USA

L'Arche is an international movement made up of communities around the world where adults with and without disabilities live together in a spirit of mutual respect, love, and celebration. Their...
Almsgiving // Heart's Home - Blessed Is She

Almsgiving // Heart's Home

It was the night before my grad school interview. I was two months away from my last class of college and imagined that I would get my masters and be...
Almsgiving // Saint Bryce Missions - Blessed Is She

Almsgiving // Saint Bryce Missions

My 6th baby is snoozing on my lap, it's late in the evening as a I write, and I'm thinking of precious babies half way around the world. How can...
Almsgiving // Sidewalk Advocates for Life - Blessed Is She

Almsgiving // Sidewalk Advocates for Life

This week we will be speaking about almsgiving here and on Blessed is She’s Instagram stories. Throughout the week, we will be giving you a glimpse of some wonderful charities/non-profits...
BIS Travels:  The Central Texas Painted Churches - Blessed Is She

BIS Travels: The Central Texas Painted Churches

The Central Texas painted churches are famous, but not so famous that they’re a touristy hotspot. Don’t you love discovering hidden gems? This Lent, our family decided to make a...
From Mixed Tapes to School-Supply Shopping Dates: Our Romance After All These Years - Blessed Is She

From Mixed Tapes to School-Supply Shopping Dates: Our Romance After All These Years

There used to be coffee and hot cocoa dates (because up until last fall, I didn't drink coffee). There were flowers. Pearl earrings. Homemade steak dinners (cooked by Fence, of...
Why You Should Get Away With Your Spouse and How To Actually Do It - Blessed Is She

Why You Should Get Away With Your Spouse and How To Actually Do It

After navigating the early years of parenting, our family has solidly entered middle-childhood. Although the frustrations of potty-training and sleepless nights have shifted to arguments over bedtimes and screen time,...
10 Ways to Hygge as a Catholic - Blessed Is She

10 Ways to Hygge as a Catholic

We are knee-deep in winter. Some of you may literally be knee-deep in winter’s white wonder. But the bright, holly jolly tidings of the Christmas season have completed their cycle...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 31 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 31

Here we are, at the end of January. The month has been at turns fruitful, trying, and hopeful for me. We have another month to pray in this Ordinary Time...
5 Myths About Catholic Schools - Blessed Is She

5 Myths About Catholic Schools

It’s Catholic Schools Week, so I pray you’ll indulge me. We’ve been Catholic school parents for more than a decade and with five kids currently enrolled, high school to kinder,...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 30 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 30

Tomorrow is the end of the month. Today gives us the chance to flood each other's days with prayers as we approach the end of this journey together. Lift up...
Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 29 - Blessed Is She

Prayer Pledge 2017: Day 29

Maybe this month isn't going as planned. Maybe, like me, you are tired and worried about many things, and overwhelmed. Maybe you didn't do the prayer pledge every day. Maybe...