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Have You Exhausted Your Lovers? - Blessed Is She

Have You Exhausted Your Lovers?

Have you exhausted your lovers? The Lord’s question threw me off guard, but I knew exactly what He meant. In prayer, I stood before Him for the first time in...
May 22, 2018
Go Where He Leads Us - Blessed Is She

Go Where He Leads Us

This year, the feast of Pentecost has a special meaning to me because my daughter will be receiving her Confirmation. I can't help but look at her with tears in...
May 20, 2018
Encountering God in the Ordinary - Blessed Is She

Encountering God in the Ordinary

What did you do yesterday? Do you have to pull out your Blessed is She Liturgical Planner to remember (because I do)? Whom did you have conversations with over text,...
May 19, 2018
Aging Souls - Blessed Is She

Aging Souls

I am a student of human development. How people grow and change is something that drives me, fascinates me, and some days even baffles me. When you watch little children...
May 18, 2018
A Legacy of Love - Blessed Is She

A Legacy of Love

Two years ago, I had the privilege of accompanying my 101-year-old grandmother, the matriarch of our Jewish family, to death’s door. Although I had spent years listening to her wise...
May 17, 2018
Beautiful Goodbyes - Blessed Is She

Beautiful Goodbyes

I’ve always had an aversion to saying good-bye. It is difficult to think that I might not see someone I treasure for a long time. I guess that’s why I...
May 16, 2018
Grasping at God the Father - Blessed Is She

Grasping at God the Father

A scream pierced the darkness. I awoke, dazed, as my husband stumbled from the bed to flip on the glaring light. It was our youngest, suffering one of his night...
May 15, 2018
Freedom in Obedience - Blessed Is She

Freedom in Obedience

In the nine verses that make up today’s Gospel passage there are two words that get repeated over and over: love and command, or commandment. (John 15:9-17) So what do...
May 14, 2018
Heaven Becomes Accessible - Blessed Is She

Heaven Becomes Accessible

Every Sunday at Mass, we recite the Nicene Creed and proclaim our belief that Jesus “ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.” (full prayer...
May 13, 2018
Complete Joy - Blessed Is She

Complete Joy

“Whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your...
May 12, 2018
The Goodness of Every Friday - Blessed Is She

The Goodness of Every Friday

I was baffled as to how I had lived 19 years as Catholic without knowing this. The priest had just given a homily on the Church’s requirement to do penance...
May 11, 2018
Questioning in Love - Blessed Is She

Questioning in Love

Sometimes I'm glad that, in the scriptures, the Apostles are so often confused. I'm comforted in their questioning and repeated asking. Even when Christ explains things again, they still don't...
May 10, 2018