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#BISLent // Weekly Lenten Link-Up 3 - Blessed Is She

#BISLent // Weekly Lenten Link-Up 3

Every week, we will open up a link-up for your blog posts, your instagram posts, your thoughts to share with each other as sisters. We will offer a prompt that...
#BISLent // Weekly Lenten Link-Up 2 - Blessed Is She

#BISLent // Weekly Lenten Link-Up 2

On this second Sunday of Lent, we want to offer a place to come together as a community and document how this Lent is going. Every week, we will open...
#BISLent // Weekly Lenten Link-Up 1 - Blessed Is She

#BISLent // Weekly Lenten Link-Up 1

On this first Sunday of Lent, we want to offer a place to come together as a community and document how this Lent is going. Every week, we will open...
The Four Pillars of Dominican Spirituality - Blessed Is She

The Four Pillars of Dominican Spirituality

Today, we recall the spiritual life of the Dominican Order, on the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (a Dominican himself!). Laurel Muff reflects on the meaning that Dominican spirituality has...
The Opportunity for Retreat - Blessed Is She

The Opportunity for Retreat

A few years ago, I went on seven retreats every year. I prepared for weeks - buying supplies, designating small groups, collecting permission slips, writing talks, and forming student leaders....
Three Reasons I Go on Retreat - Blessed Is She

Three Reasons I Go on Retreat

Going on a retreat can make such a difference, not only to our personal prayer life, but also in our family.

Project Blessed Prayer Pledge - Blessed Is She

Project Blessed Prayer Pledge

We pledge that for the first part of the year 2016, we will pray daily together as a sisterhood. Whether it be reading the daily devotions (subscribe here), prayer journaling,...
How I Started a Small Group on the Internet - Blessed Is She

How I Started a Small Group on the Internet

When the Blessed is She study guide came out, I was overjoyed and excited to start this journey of diving deeper into my faith. As I read over the guide,...
Our Sisterhood is the Spirit at Work - Blessed Is She

Our Sisterhood is the Spirit at Work

I downloaded the Blessed is She study guide thinking I really would benefit about being intentional in my prayer time and journaling, but then it just sat in my inbox,...
To Carry Each Other's Burdens - Blessed Is She

To Carry Each Other's Burdens

A couple of years ago, one of my co-workers from the TV station where I was working, passed away. It seemed very sudden. We knew he had cancer, but he...
One Year - Blessed Is She

One Year

Molly said it so well in today's devotion, so it's hard to reiterate any more than what she said, other than to be able to share with you some of...
The Beauty of Goodbyes - Blessed Is She

The Beauty of Goodbyes

Goodbyes are hard. Tonight, I had to say goodbye to a priest who has become a father to me. This is the fourth time that I’ve had to say goodbye...