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When My Marriage Needed More than a Date - Blessed Is She

When My Marriage Needed More than a Date

In order to make the house run and my sanity stay locked in place, I have systems and more systems. I have routines. I have check lists. I have long...
Weekly Wallpaper // 17 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 17

Grace. His grace is sufficient for all of our cracks. This week, Erin McKenna Nowak created our wallpaper on today's second reading, 2 Corinthians 12:9. My grace is sufficient for...
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // FREEDOM - Blessed Is She

#BISsisterhood Link-Up // FREEDOM

Today we are talking about FREEDOM. "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1 Christ died...
Why I Gave Up Makeup - Blessed Is She

Why I Gave Up Makeup

“The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing women that they looked better in their makeup.” // Mackelmore I’ve never had perfectly clear skin; therefore, I’ve done everything...
Weekly Wallpaper // 16 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 16

This week's wallpaper was made by Meg Churray (follow her on Instagram) from a verse in today's gospel Mark 5:34 Daughter, your faith has saved you. How perfect this is...
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // BAPTISM - Blessed Is She

#BISsisterhood Link-Up // BAPTISM

Today we are talking about BAPTISM. Baptism is "the gateway to life in the Spirit". (CCC 1213) This gratuitous gift from God plunges us into the divine life, vivifying our...
The Sustaining Nature of Baptism - Blessed Is She

The Sustaining Nature of Baptism

Converts to Catholicism have the reputation of being full of fire for God's Church. I am really no exception. I came to the faith in my late 20's after losing...
Remember Your Baptism - Blessed Is She

Remember Your Baptism

“The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism.” (CCC 1250) The priest did not simply sprinkle our sleeping daughter’s head. He cupped both hands...
Weekly Wallpaper // 15 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 15

In this week's gospel, Jesus says to the sea, "Quiet! Be Still!" (Mark 4:39) It struck me. I felt him saying that to me right in that moment. In my...
#BISsisterhood Link-Up // WORTH THE WAIT - Blessed Is She

#BISsisterhood Link-Up // WORTH THE WAIT

Today we are talking about WORTH THE WAIT. "Be still before the Lord, and wait patiently for him." Psalm 37:7 Sometimes God asks us to be patient and wait. But...
Marriage Can Wait - Blessed Is She

Marriage Can Wait

I can wait to get married. There I said it. As a 20 year old woman in college, I watch as many of my peers happily get hitched or find...
Self Control is More Important Than Saving Rent - Blessed Is She

Self Control is More Important Than Saving Rent

I marry my fiancé, Steven, in 95 days. Wow. For part of our relationship, Steven and I lived in seperate states. I worked as a campus ministry intern in Virginia,...