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Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time can often feel like the doldrums of the liturgical year. We aren't preparing for a major feast or in a celebratory season. Summer stretches out ahead of us,...
Good Friday // Feel the Nails - Blessed Is She

Good Friday // Feel the Nails

Good Friday…the day that started it all…our salvation and our great hope that one day we will be with Christ again in Heaven. How odd is it that every Good...
Holy Thursday // Lead Me To The Cross - Blessed Is She

Holy Thursday // Lead Me To The Cross

He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Master, are you going to wash my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing, you do not...
Switching Out The Wineskins - Blessed Is She

Switching Out The Wineskins

People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins,...
Be Quiet. Amazing Things Will Happen. - Blessed Is She

Be Quiet. Amazing Things Will Happen.

Dutch-born theologian Henri Nouwen said that we are all called to be mystics. But, in a busy world with long to-do lists and lots of good Netflix shows to fill...
Prayers for the Single Life - Blessed Is She

Prayers for the Single Life

During college, I’ve fallen into the trap of thinking I needed to be in a relationship. I felt pitied and ashamed of being single, but after much thought and prayer,...
5 Ways to Achieve Inner Peace - Blessed Is She

5 Ways to Achieve Inner Peace

The world is busy. Long to-do lists, endless extracurricular activities, and plenty of prime-time television abound. And yet, when there’s much to do, value still abides in zipping our lips...
6 Steps to a Deeper Prayer Life - Blessed Is She

6 Steps to a Deeper Prayer Life

There's something to be said about the stillness of the morning, those moments before the sunrise when the whole world seems still. There's something to be said for praying during...
What Does Obedience Look Like to You? - Blessed Is She

What Does Obedience Look Like to You?

Seasons. We go through so many different seasons in our lives, don’t we? And every season teaches us something. Right now my family is in a very crazy season. Recently,...
Quiet Witness in our Homes and Communities - Blessed Is She

Quiet Witness in our Homes and Communities

Let's revisit St. Therese today -- such a powerful patron is worth a few posts! Elizabeth Foss shared this post on her blog about the Little Way in the face...
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...
This Year I Will Delight - Blessed Is She

This Year I Will Delight

This all started with an idea I had, about how I could be really intentional about this year. I kept coming back to wanting to straighten my priorities, to listen...