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Blessed Chats: Addiction // Shopping Compulsion - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Addiction // Shopping Compulsion

Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
Blessed Chats: Addiction // Alcohol - Blessed Is She

Blessed Chats: Addiction // Alcohol

Welcome to our Blessed Chats series! Each month, we will dedicate an entire week of blog posts to a topic that affects many of us. These conversations often come up...
Weekly Wallpaper // 248 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 248

You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. // Matthew 22:37 These words are for you. Download this...
BIS Reads // Theology of Home II - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads // Theology of Home II

When my oldest son turned two, I made him a three-car train cake out of banana breads baked in different-sized rectangular loaf pans. I even carved out a space for...
The Time I Prayed for a Priest (and a Miracle Happened) - Blessed Is She

The Time I Prayed for a Priest (and a Miracle Happened)

As an Army family, we’ve lived all over and sometimes have not been near a Military base. So we’d look for the nearest civilian church to attend while in those...
Friendship + Fellowship with Non-Catholics - Blessed Is She

Friendship + Fellowship with Non-Catholics

I was not raised in a Catholic home. In fact, I am the only Catholic in my whole family. I converted when I was 7 years old and I’ve been...
An Introduction to Passionist Saints - Blessed Is She

An Introduction to Passionist Saints

Eight inches or so high, simply crafted of wood and silver, the crucifix was worn from years of doing much more than hanging on a wall. It rested in his...
An Examination of Media Intake - Blessed Is She

An Examination of Media Intake

Does your phone give God glory? Is it a crutch you use to “check out” of life, or is it a tool helping you to “check in” with people and...
Weekly Wallpaper // 247 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 247

I have called you by your name. // Isaiah 45:4 These words are for you. Download this print from Jazmin De Guzman from today's readings. Let His word dwell in...
On Body Image - Blessed Is She

On Body Image

For from their greatness and beauty of created things, their original author, by analogy can be seen. -Wisdom 13: 5 Have you ever listened to little kids boast about their...
The Heart of Worship - Blessed Is She

The Heart of Worship

Rhythm is a dancer, it’s a soul companion; you can feel it everywhere. These lyrics by the famed German group Snap from decades ago immediately transport me back in time,...
Wholly Surrendered - Blessed Is She

Wholly Surrendered

It started as a quiet stirring in my heart, this gentle, almost imperceptible whisper from the Lord: “Come and rest with Me awhile.” I didn't understand what it meant, but...