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Receiving the Love of Your First Love: Five Adoration “Date” Ideas

Receiving the Love of Your First Love: Five Adoration “Date” Ideas

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, here are five Adoration “date” ideas to spend time with Jesus, your first love.

Scripture Verses About Love

Scripture Verses About Love

As we approach Saint Valentine’s Day, let us spend time praying with Scriptures that focus on the love of God, that we may know without a doubt just how much He loves us.

Let Us Console the Heart of Jesus Under the Olive Tree

Let Us Console the Heart of Jesus Under the Olive Tree

This Lent, as Jesus enters into His Passion, Blessed Is She invites you to meet Him in the Garden of Gethsemane, where it all began. We want to journey with you through our new Lent devotional, Under the Olive Tree, which is now available.
New Year, New Word, New Saint

New Year, New Word, New Saint

Discover how to prayerfully adopt a Saint for the year and listen for the word God has for you ... and why you should!
The Christmas Angels: How Their Message Uplifts Those Facing Holiday Hardship

The Christmas Angels: How Their Message Uplifts Those Facing Holiday Hardship

The appearances of the angels during the Christmas season are great evidence that no matter what we are going through, God sees us and is sending us heavenly aid.
O Antiphons: A Special Way to Pray During the Last Week of Advent

O Antiphons: A Special Way to Pray During the Last Week of Advent

Looking for a way to renew your prayer this last week of Advent? Meet the O Antiphons!
Scripture Verses to Help Us Forgive

Scripture Verses to Help Us Forgive

How do we learn to forgive? Specific Scripture verses teach us how to forgive one another, including ourselves.
From Negativity Addict to Ambassador of Hope: An Interview with Liz Kelly Stanchina

From Negativity Addict to Ambassador of Hope: An Interview with Liz Kelly Stanchina

Liz Kelly Stanchina helps readers welcome the virtue of hope and become joyful bearers of hope for a hurting world.
A Season of Hope, A Year of Hope

A Season of Hope, a Year of Hope

As we enter into the season of hope, Advent, let us anticipate the Jubilee Year of Hope and the invitation to bear hope in this world.
Scripture Verses to Pray When You’re Busy

Scripture Verses to Pray When You’re Busy

Keeping our prayer routine when we are busy is especially important. Here are some Scripture verses to help us along.
On the Feast of Saint Luke

On the Feast of Saint Luke

On the Feast of Saint Luke, we explore the unique distinctions among the four Gospel writers.
BIS Reads // Whispers of Mary

BIS Reads // Whispers of Mary

In her book Whispers of Mary, Gayle Somers introduces us to ten Old Testament women and shows us how each of their stories leads us to Mary, our Blessed Mother.