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Back to the Future - Blessed Is She

Back to the Future

The 1985 movie Back to the Future is a cultural phenomenon. One of the best quotes is uttered by Marty: “Wait A Minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built...
How (And Why) to Rejoice in Your Weakness - Blessed Is She

How (And Why) to Rejoice in Your Weakness

“Be perfect,” Jesus tells us, “as your Heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). For years, I thought this meant I had to eliminate all my flaws as fast as I...
Resources for (Re)Discovering Catholicism - Blessed Is She

Resources for (Re)Discovering Catholicism

I was in a crowd of thousands of young people, listening to a talk on being transformed as a disciple of Christ by the author and theologian, Dr. Edward Sri....
Weekly Wallpaper // 228 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 228

On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. // John 14:20 Download these beautiful free wallpapers from...
Scripture Verses to Pray When You're Disappointed - Blessed Is She

Scripture Verses to Pray When You're Disappointed

My son should be graduating from high school this week. Along with his friends and classmates, our firstborn should be donning a cap and gown so he can cross a...
Making the Rosary a Daily Habit in Times of Overwhelm - Blessed Is She

Making the Rosary a Daily Habit in Times of Overwhelm

Pray the Rosary every day, in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war. -Our Lady of Fatima For years, I was inspired to daily...
The Day I Let Christ Into My Bedroom - Blessed Is She

The Day I Let Christ Into My Bedroom

When I was a little girl, my godmother was divorced from her abusive husband and could not remarry in the Church without an annulment (which she refused to try to...
Weekly Wallpaper // 227 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 227

I am the way, the truth and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father, except through me. // John 14:6 Download these beautiful free wallpapers from...
Meals from Our Moms - Blessed Is She

Meals from Our Moms

Mothers are Christ-like in that they lay down their lives for their children. Whether it is in the delivery room, the office, the kitchen, or many miles away interceding on...
Resources for Pornography Addiction - Blessed Is She

Resources for Pornography Addiction

Our culture is saturated with porn. Most of us have either suffered from addiction to porn or know someone who does (even if we aren't aware of it). Pornography is...
A (Postcard) Trip around the World - Blessed Is She

A (Postcard) Trip around the World

It wasn’t long ago that my dear sister was approaching her thirtieth birthday. A significant landmark in anyone’s life, Leigh wanted to mark the passage in some memorable way. “I...
How to Fall in Love with Scripture - Blessed Is She

How to Fall in Love with Scripture

Even though I’m a cradle Catholic, I spent every Thursday night of my high school years at a nondenominational Protestant youth group. (I lived in the Middle East, where there...