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The Holiness and Example of Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin - Blessed Is She

The Holiness and Example of Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin

One of the things I love about the Catholic Church is that she is both old and new at the same time. The tradition of the Church is 2,000 years...
St. Josemaria Escriva: Embracing the Ordinary - Blessed Is She

St. Josemaria Escriva: Embracing the Ordinary

I think we all have a friend who seemingly has been our friend forever, and we can’t even really pinpoint when that friendship began, or how. We just know that...
Life in the Liturgy - Blessed Is She

Life in the Liturgy

As I was sitting in our church before Mass this past spring, I though of those who had generously prepared our sancutary for another day. My eyes rested on the...
Lost and Found with St. Anthony - Blessed Is She

Lost and Found with St. Anthony

Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony, please come around. Something is lost and cannot be found! I grew up praying this small prayer whenever I misplaced my keys, a notebook, you name...
Corpus Christi: The Secret of the Day - Blessed Is She

Corpus Christi: The Secret of the Day

The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the church and to the whole world. -Pope St. John...
Seeking Conversion in the Beauty of Ordinary Time - Blessed Is She

Seeking Conversion in the Beauty of Ordinary Time

When you set a goal to eat healthily and turn to resources to help you do so, one theme you’ll see repeatedly is that the green smoothies and salads you...
St. Rita: Hope and Honeybees - Blessed Is She

St. Rita: Hope and Honeybees

Have you ever felt like you need a cheerleader? A friend who knows how to speak courage, hope, peace, and possibility to your troubled mind as you agonize over details...
How I Organize My Week - Blessed Is She

How I Organize My Week

My husband often jokes that our life revolves around my planner. He's completely right. Like most of you, our lives are full of good things like family, work, appointments and...
What is an Indulgence? - Blessed Is She

What is an Indulgence?

The word “indulgence” always made me feel a little uncomfortable. Growing up Catholic, I knew it was something Martin Luther got upset about when he separated himself from Catholicism back...
How to Create a Prayer Corner in Your Home - Blessed Is She

How to Create a Prayer Corner in Your Home

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and...
Divine Mercy and the "Spark" of the Sacred Heart - Blessed Is She

Divine Mercy and the "Spark" of the Sacred Heart

It has been just over six years since I made a pilgrimage to Krakow, Poland to visit the Shrine of the Divine Mercy. I was able to pray in the...
Ideas for Displaying Palm Sunday Palms Around Your Home - Blessed Is She

Ideas for Displaying Palm Sunday Palms Around Your Home

Sisters, please tell me I am not the only one who has, admittedly more than once in my life, lost a palm from Palm Sunday. Some time in between folding...