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Keep Your Eyes on God - Blessed Is She

Keep Your Eyes on God

Today’s Gospel Reading is not the easiest one out there but sometimes a dose of reality is needed to help us keep proper perspective in our lives. It reminds me...
November 14, 2014
The Hurt of Rejection - Blessed Is She

The Hurt of Rejection

I love the fact that God gives us best friends. Who are your best friends? Who do you share your hopes and dreams, fears and worries, funny stories, and failings...
November 13, 2014
Renewed in the Spirit - Blessed Is She

Renewed in the Spirit

Most of us are familiar with the social treatment of lepers in the time of Christ and throughout history. At that time their bacterial infections were incurable, and they were...
November 12, 2014
About Those High Standards - Blessed Is She

About Those High Standards

Readings like today's—the ones that urge us to go above and beyond—give me a little bit of a guilt complex. Saint Paul, who authored the First Reading, might've had a...
November 11, 2014
Letting Resentment Die Out - Blessed Is She

Letting Resentment Die Out

Today's Gospel is haunting. It haunts all of us, mothers, sisters, daughters, friends. Forgiveness; sinning; faith. It is Christ, Our Savior, telling us we have to get over ourselves and...
November 10, 2014
Cleaning House - Blessed Is She

Cleaning House

Saturday is my chore day. It’s the day I can do all the things I don’t have time to do during the week, like cleaning the bathrooms, vacuuming, and mopping...
November 09, 2014
I've Been Shaken - Blessed Is She

I've Been Shaken

  It’s like today’s readings were screaming at me. It’s as if God himself was banging down my door, shaking me, and telling me to open my eyes. It’s like...
November 08, 2014
Which Crown Will I Embrace? - Blessed Is She

Which Crown Will I Embrace?

The readings today are powerful as always. But it is the First Reading that really grabs me with its inherent contradictions. Saint Paul tells the Philippians that his "joy and...
November 07, 2014
Gaining Christ - Blessed Is She

Gaining Christ

  We live in a world obsessed with success. Blaring messages of perfection and so-called true satisfaction beckon to us. Magazine covers and Pinterest offer us the steps to obtaining...
November 06, 2014
No More Pining Away - Blessed Is She

No More Pining Away

Today’s Gospel Reading is one that can be hard for some to manage. As a convert to Catholicism, I hold it dear because I chose to leave my roots and...
November 05, 2014
Filling the Master's House - Blessed Is She

Filling the Master's House

Today's Gospel passage shakes me; it makes me nervous. I read it and pray, "Oh shoot, Jesus! Save me from myself!" My days are filled with excuses. Groceries to put...
November 04, 2014
Humility. It Is No Joke. - Blessed Is She

Humility. It Is No Joke.

Humbly Seeking Humility. Selfishness. Its a killer. If you didn't pick up on the theme in the First Reading, welp, it's reiterated in the Gospel too, don't worry. Did you...
November 03, 2014