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A Prayer for Our Children's Teachers - Blessed Is She

A Prayer for Our Children's Teachers

It’s that magical time of year again. Shopping carts are filled with endless reams of paper, composition books, glue sticks, and pencils. Big yellow buses are cruising the neighborhood during...
In Quiet Spaciousness: Praying the Liturgy of the Hours - Blessed Is She

In Quiet Spaciousness: Praying the Liturgy of the Hours

A handful of retreatants are already waiting when I arrive at the monastery for Morning Prayer. For the last three days, three times each day, I have walked to the...
Weekly Wallpaper // 115 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 115

"For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things." What gorgeous lettering by Emily Rachelle for our weekly wallpaper. You can download it below for your phone...
Finding Forgiveness: A Guide to Confession - Blessed Is She

Finding Forgiveness: A Guide to Confession

Like many Catholics I know, I had not gone to the Sacrament of Confession for a number of years. The Catholic Church recommends we go at least once a year...
10 Great Books For Catholic Converts - Blessed Is She

10 Great Books For Catholic Converts

All of us have, at one time or another, needed a good book as we explore the Faith. Or perhaps we need a good book recommendation for someone searching for...
Weekly Wallpaper // 114 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 114

This beautiful wallpaper from Marie of Fawnly Prints with today's verse: O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish. // Matthew 15:28 The...
How I Use My Blessed Is She Liturgical Planner - Blessed Is She

How I Use My Blessed Is She Liturgical Planner

For as long as I can remember, I have been a paper lover - stationary, stickers, journal, planners, etc. One of my favorite times of the year was when I...
Seeing My Mother: Changing the Way I Look at Mary - Blessed Is She

Seeing My Mother: Changing the Way I Look at Mary

As a mom of three little humans, I found myself reflecting on how my perception of my own mom as changed over the years. As a little girl—she was the...
Weekly Wallpaper // 113 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 113

Simple words from this week's readings: He said, "come." (Matthew 14:29) Do you trust Him enough to follow? What does following look like for you? Grab this free wallpaper designed...
Best Books About Mary - Blessed Is She

Best Books About Mary

As Catholic women, we are blessed to have a supreme model for womanhood in our Mother Mary. She always points us to Christ. So the more we learn about her,...
BIS Travels: Our Lady of Good Help Shrine, Wisconsin - Blessed Is She

BIS Travels: Our Lady of Good Help Shrine, Wisconsin

Champion, Wisconsin, isn’t a place you’d expect to find much. It lays a long stretch of cornfields away from nearby Dyckesville and Algoma. Somewhere close is a town named Alaska....
Weekly Wallpaper // 112 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 112

It's the Transfiguration of the Lord this week. In the second reading, 2 Paul 1:17-18, it says: "This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased." We...