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Getting Back to God - Blessed Is She

Getting Back to God

Sometimes I feel like I'm not good enough to be a Christian. There are some amazing men and women out there doing amazing things. Right now, people are on their...
April 10, 2015
Embracing that Cross - Blessed Is She

Embracing that Cross

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you . . . How many times have I denied what Christ has...
April 09, 2015
Don't Settle - Blessed Is She

Don't Settle

Do you ever find yourself settling into spiritual complacency? Mass on Sunday. The occasional daily mass. Confession once a month. Ok, more like once every few months. It’s not great,...
April 08, 2015
Where Did God Go in Your Life? - Blessed Is She

Where Did God Go in Your Life?

What on earth? Why can't Mary Magdalene hug Jesus? She has undergone such tremendous suffering in the last few days. She, along with the beloved apostle John, and the Blessed...
April 07, 2015
We Choose Truth - Blessed Is She

We Choose Truth

Can you even imagine the chaos of that first day following the resurrection? For three long days, Jesus's friends had been wrapped in a heart-wrenching cloud of grief after watching...
April 06, 2015
Easter Sunday and He Is RISEN - Blessed Is She

Easter Sunday and He Is RISEN

Jesus is Risen! Alleluia! We have heard the Easter story so many times, it is easy to trivialize the magnitude of the Resurrection. I have been trying to put myself...
April 05, 2015
It's A Circle - Blessed Is She

It's A Circle

Creator. Redeemer. Savior. If you managed to get through all of today’s readings without being completely overwhelmed, then please tell me your secret. The shear awe-inspiring, engulfing truth of our...
April 04, 2015
The Passion of the Lord - Blessed Is She

The Passion of the Lord

I remember being nine or ten years old, not yet fully aware of the immensity of our faith, but starting to see glimpses of what it meant to be Catholic....
April 03, 2015
Mass of the Lord's Supper - Blessed Is She

Mass of the Lord's Supper

What I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand. As Jesus knelt in service to His apostles, washing their (probably stinky and dirty) feet, Peter...
April 02, 2015
I Am Judas - Blessed Is She

I Am Judas

I am Judas. Holy Week brings me back to this reality every year. During this week, I come face-to-face once again with all the ways I betray my Lord and...
April 01, 2015
Courage to Ask for Forgiveness - Blessed Is She

Courage to Ask for Forgiveness

"The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name." One of you will betray me. One of you whom I called from...
March 31, 2015
My Everything - Blessed Is She

My Everything

“Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the...
March 30, 2015