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The Life After: A Poem for Holy Saturday - Blessed Is She

The Life After: A Poem for Holy Saturday

I speak now of the Life After, which I can imagine, and not the AfterLife, which I cannot, although He spoke of it many times. I look up at Him...
MYSTERY: Discovering the Depth of the Rosary - Blessed Is She

MYSTERY: Discovering the Depth of the Rosary

Perhaps the best person to teach us about the life of Christ is His mother, Mary. After all, she was there with Him from the moment of the Incarnation to...
New Melleray Abbey and the Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe - Blessed Is She

New Melleray Abbey and the Shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe

I don't know about you, but when I think of the beauty of the Catholic Church I tend to go old school. And by "old school," I mean Old World....
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...
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....
BiS Travels: Our Lady of the Angels, Costa Rica - Blessed Is She

BiS Travels: Our Lady of the Angels, Costa Rica

  People are always amazed by the idea that here in Costa Rica, there is an active volcano virtually in my backyard. We can sit on our porch with coffee...