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The Ultimate Teacher of Love - Blessed Is She

The Ultimate Teacher of Love

I cannot fathom a scene that reveals any more deeply the profound respect Our Lord has for our freedom than the scene of Judas at the table at Passover. Jesus...
March 31, 2021
Meet Him in His Pain - Blessed Is She

Meet Him in His Pain

I believe being betrayed by someone you love and trust is one of the greatest pains of a human life. I was betrayed deeply as an eighteen-year-old girl in college...
March 30, 2021
Best Flowers, Best Oil, Best Friend - Blessed Is She

Best Flowers, Best Oil, Best Friend

My dad sends my mom flowers every other week. The arrangements are simple, a dozen roses, some daisies, or her favorite, hydrangeas. But every other week, usually on Monday or...
March 29, 2021
Journey to Jerusalem with Jesus - Blessed Is She

Journey to Jerusalem with Jesus

Growing up in a Jewish home, I have indelible memories of our yearly Passover celebration—the intense preparations of removing all leaven, cleaning, shopping, and cooking the special meal, followed by...
March 28, 2021
Home in His Sanctuary - Blessed Is She

Home in His Sanctuary

My five months in Europe were some of the loneliest of my life. I usually found myself alone at Mass each weekend in a different church than the week before,...
March 27, 2021
Challenges, Both Epic and Everyday - Blessed Is She

Challenges, Both Epic and Everyday

Today’s Psalm gives us this vivid passage: "The breakers of death surged round about me, the destroying floods overwhelmed me; The cords of the nether world enmeshed me, the snares...
March 26, 2021
Little and Big Yeses - Blessed Is She

Little and Big Yeses

I have a confession to make: my relationship with Mary has never been as great as I would like it to be. I think part of the reason for my...
March 25, 2021
To Have Holy Courage - Blessed Is She

To Have Holy Courage

Even though I was heartbroken a year ago when our local churches stopped offering public Masses, I was filled with gratitude that at least the doors were still open. I...
March 24, 2021
Hear My Cry, O Lord - Blessed Is She

Hear My Cry, O Lord

I slammed the door and stomped to my car. If one more thing went wrong today, I was going to lose it! Then I saw it—a flat tire. I could...
March 23, 2021
Living in the Tension of Joy and Sorrow - Blessed Is She

Living in the Tension of Joy and Sorrow

The older I get, the less I claim to know. The world, with all its complicated brokenness, has undone so much of my certainty, and discerning how God is working...
March 22, 2021
If You Had Been There, Lord - Blessed Is She

If You Had Been There, Lord

Growing up, it was the most natural thing in the world that my dad’s first stop in the morning paper wasn’t the front page or sports section, but the obituaries....
March 21, 2021
Truth Hide and Seek - Blessed Is She

Truth Hide and Seek

Ding! I groaned as I read the incoming text. “Did you happen to get to that letter of recommendation yet?” I mulled over my response as the half-finished letter sat...
March 20, 2021