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This is the End - Blessed Is She

This is the End

First Reading: 1 John 2:18-21 Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that...
December 31, 2014
Leave the Struggles Behind - Blessed Is She

Leave the Struggles Behind

First Reading: 1 John 2:12-17 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him...
December 30, 2014
The Heart of Your Mother - Blessed Is She

The Heart of Your Mother

First Reading: 1 John 2:3-11 And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He who says "I know him" but disobeys his...
December 29, 2014
Acting Out of Love - Blessed Is She

Acting Out of Love

Feast of the Holy Family First Reading: Sirach 3:2-7, 12-14 For the Lord honored the father above the children, and he confirmed the right of the mother over her sons....
December 28, 2014
That Our Joy May Be Complete - Blessed Is She

That Our Joy May Be Complete

Feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist First Reading: 1 John 1:1-4 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which...
December 27, 2014
Meaning in Life and Death - Blessed Is She

Meaning in Life and Death

  Merry Christmas! I hope you had a truly blessed day yesterday and that you're continuing the celebration of the Christmas octave with crazy amounts of joy in your heart....
December 26, 2014
The Nativity of the Lord - Blessed Is She

The Nativity of the Lord

  Take this moment for joy. Today we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Savior of the world. Today is the day we put too many expectations on ourselves, our...
December 25, 2014
God Always Answers - Blessed Is She

God Always Answers

And you, Child, will be called the prophet of the most high . . . . These words sound unremarkable, even normal to many of us from our vantage here...
December 24, 2014
You and I Are Handmaidens - Blessed Is She

You and I Are Handmaidens

  In a few short days, Christmas will be here. Every year I resolve to make this a holy Advent and not to get wrapped up in the commercialism or...
December 22, 2014
She Has the Gumption - Blessed Is She

She Has the Gumption

  Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you! The Lord is with you. How many times have we heard this before? It is said at every Mass, at...
December 21, 2014
The First Joyful Mystery - Blessed Is She

The First Joyful Mystery

  This is my first time writing for Blessed is She, and I was not at all prepared to reflect on such an intense reading. The Annunciation. It’s one of...
December 20, 2014
Longing Together - Blessed Is She

Longing Together

Infertility during Advent? The worst. Take a whole season about waiting for a baby to arrive, and then plop a desperate, hormonal, weepy not-yet-mother-to-be right in the middle. Ugly. I...
December 19, 2014