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Extinguishing Vices, Growing Virtues - Blessed Is She

Extinguishing Vices, Growing Virtues

Contained in every life advancement or achievement, there is both a "no" and a "yes" involved. If I want to compete in a triathlon, I must say "no" to lazy...
October 26, 2017
What You DO Matters - Blessed Is She

What You DO Matters

Yes, ma’am. That’s what you say, preferably with a smile. If you can’t manage a smile, at least don’t roll your eyes or sigh heavily, no matter what you’re asked...
October 01, 2017
Calling on Angels - Blessed Is She

Calling on Angels

We often forget there's a war being waged all around us. An easy-to-dismiss, largely unseen war between good and evil. Yet we're smack dab in the middle of this epic...
September 29, 2017
You Are an Apostle to the Secular World - Blessed Is She

You Are an Apostle to the Secular World

In graduate school, one of my required classes was Pauline Literature. The priest who taught loved Saint Paul something mighty fierce; to the point he would dress in costume (complete...
August 20, 2017
You Are Not Your Past - Blessed Is She

You Are Not Your Past

“Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) Today is the feast day of Saint Mary...
July 22, 2017
What's Your Revolution? - Blessed Is She

What's Your Revolution?

Much ink has been spilled this year over "the Benedict Option," Rod Dreher's sweeping cultural assessment adjuring Christians to create and invest in life-giving physical communities and to dig down...
July 11, 2017
Love, Not the Law, Saves Us - Blessed Is She

Love, Not the Law, Saves Us

I entered the Catholic Church as a young adult after a self-imposed exile from my childhood faith. When I told a friend of my decision, a furrow appeared between her...
June 15, 2017
God Wants Your Heart for Lent - Blessed Is She

God Wants Your Heart for Lent

Ash Wednesday First Reading: Joel 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments,...
March 01, 2017
Be, Not Do - Blessed Is She

Be, Not Do

Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time First Reading: Sirach 2:1-11 My son, when you come to serve the LORD, stand in justice and fear, prepare yourself for trials....
February 21, 2017
He Rewrote the Rules - Blessed Is She

He Rewrote the Rules

Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin First Reading: Genesis 3:1-8 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent asked the...
February 10, 2017