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Weekly Wallpaper // 271 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 271

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, his mercy endures forever. // Psalm 118:1 Love this print from Remilla Ty from today's readings. Let His word dwell in...
Teaching Children About Courage with the Saints - Blessed Is She

Teaching Children About Courage with the Saints

When I was pregnant with my son, my first child, I stumbled upon a quote by C.S. Lewis: Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let...
Fertility Awareness and the Feminine Genius - Blessed Is She

Fertility Awareness and the Feminine Genius

Cycle tracking. Fertility awareness. Cycle charting. Fertility Awareness Methods. Natural Family Planning. Fertility tracking. All of these terms seem to get mixed and mingled in many conversations online and in-person,...
How to Live Out Your Baptismal Call of Priest, Prophet, and King - Blessed Is She

How to Live Out Your Baptismal Call of Priest, Prophet, and King

By virtue of baptism, every Christian is anointed to serve as priest, prophet, and king within their individual communities. But what exactly does this mean? I confess that, even as...
Weekly Wallpaper // 270 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 270

Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away... // Acts 3:19 Let His word dwell in us richly, sisters. Remember, Members, you get this for free!...
Unlikely Places We Pray - Blessed Is She

Unlikely Places We Pray

Where is the most unlikely place you have prayed? I mean, of course, 1 Thessalonians 5:16 tells us to “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks.” But...
The Idol of Health - Blessed Is She

The Idol of Health

I write to you while sipping on a green juice and munching on a waffle. Evidence of change—balance. This morning I had to stretch the waist band on my underwear...
Looking to Start (or Re-Start) Your Prayer Life? - Blessed Is She

Looking to Start (or Re-Start) Your Prayer Life?

"Perhaps you hesitate in prayer because you do not know how to pray. Perhaps you question yourself because although you know numerous vocal prayers, you are not sure what lies...
Dietrich von Hildebrand // The Philosopher Every Catholic Should Know - Blessed Is She

Dietrich von Hildebrand // The Philosopher Every Catholic Should Know

I am personally convinced that, when, some time in the future, the intellectual history of the Catholic Church in the twentieth century is written, the name of Dietrich von Hildebrand...
How to Grow into a Devout Catholic in College - Blessed Is She

How to Grow into a Devout Catholic in College

Being Catholic in an increasingly secular world is extremely difficult. Now imagine putting yourself on a college campus full of young people who have the freedom to be on their...
Weekly Wallpaper // 269 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 269

O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You. Let His word dwell in us richly,...
How I Chased God’s Whisper Down the Years - Blessed Is She

How I Chased God’s Whisper Down the Years

I am a baptized Catholic who spent my teenage and young adult years running away from God with all my might. Despite my best efforts, I could never quite get...