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Espoused in the Fidelity of God - Blessed Is She

Espoused in the Fidelity of God

This last season of my life has been marked by a great wave of personal disappointments. My relationship unexpectedly ended. My last semester of college was cancelled as classes went...
July 06, 2020
I Won't Grow Up - Blessed Is She

I Won't Grow Up

I couldn’t wait to grow up. I couldn’t wait to get to middle school, to get my driver’s license, to head off to college, to live on my own. By...
July 05, 2020
Have You Also Been Burned? - Blessed Is She

Have You Also Been Burned?

He brings it up again during Adoration. The nudge, the call. Jesus has been tenderly stoking a near-absent fire in my heart. It once blazed, providing warmth and light, releasing...
July 04, 2020
Beautiful But Also Gross - Blessed Is She

Beautiful But Also Gross

Today is the feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle. In the Gospel, we read the beautiful—yet, ya know, also gross—story of Thomas, invited by Jesus to put his finger inside...
July 03, 2020
The Healing Power of the Merciful One - Blessed Is She

The Healing Power of the Merciful One

I am the paralytic. The one that cannot bring myself to Him. I am the one lying on the stretcher, unable to raise my eyes towards Him. I lie crippled...
July 02, 2020
Lessons from My Discipline Failures - Blessed Is She

Lessons from My Discipline Failures

I lay in the quiet and try to focus my thoughts. I hear the shower running in the other room as the light begins to filter in through the shutters....
July 01, 2020
Asking Why in the Storm - Blessed Is She

Asking Why in the Storm

"I trust in the LORD; my soul trusts in his word" (Psalm 130:5). This year has been strange to say the least. After eight uneventful pregnancies, I lost two babies...
June 30, 2020
Answers from the Holy Spirit - Blessed Is She

Answers from the Holy Spirit

The first time I walked into the brick ranch on Smith Street I knew it was the one. My kids busted through the door behind me and boldly ran down...
June 29, 2020
Vintage Creation of the Creator - Blessed Is She

Vintage Creation of the Creator

The priest extended his hand, saying, “I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” He smiled and as I...
June 28, 2020
Having the Centurion's Heart - Blessed Is She

Having the Centurion's Heart

If you've cared for a loved one who has been ill, or even witnessed from afar another's deep suffering, you know the sorrow of the centurion in today's Gospel reading,...
June 27, 2020
Reconversion of Our Hearts - Blessed Is She

Reconversion of Our Hearts

Today's Responsorial from Psalm 137:6 refrain sticks to my heart: "Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!" It wasn't during school, it was after school. It wasn't...
June 26, 2020
Firmly Rooted in His Love - Blessed Is She

Firmly Rooted in His Love

The flight landed late, and for the life of me I couldn’t remember where I parked the car. After nearly a half hour of searching, furiously punching the key-fob as...
June 25, 2020