Love of Poverty and Love of the Poor
It is not filth and hunger that make saints, nor even poverty itself, but love of poverty and love of the poor. -Thomas Merton It is really possible to...
What are Mass Cards?
On our baptismal days, my husband, my kids, and I know what to expect from my mother- and father-in-law: a card-sized white envelope, our names written on the outside in...
3 Prayers to Say After Receiving Communion
My First Holy Communion day was one of the most memorable days of my childhood. I had a private Mass said just for me, and my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 6
Our 2019 Advent Journal, All the Generations: From Genesis to You, is an offering written by our entire Blessed is She team! For the first time this year, we will...
The Practice of Counting Daily Gratefuls
I was driving home from Mass one Sunday this summer. A friend suddenly was unable to attend our plans for a concert at a local church. She had double booked...
The Prayer Before Meals
There’s a pretty funny meme about our Grace Before Meals that’s been making the rounds lately. In the background is the painting of an old man with his hands folded...
Weekly Wallpaper // 202
But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays. // Malachi 3:20 Download these beautiful free wallpapers from Abigail Katherine Rose...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 5
Our 2019 Advent Journal, All the Generations: From Genesis to You, is an offering written by our entire Blessed is She team! For the first time this year, we will...
On the Feast of St. Giuseppe Moscati
A Saint is a person in Heaven who lived a virtuous life in a heroic way for the Faith and who is worthy of imitation. It is pleasing to God...
St. Gertrude + the Souls in Purgatory
A handful of Saints within Catholicism have been given the title “Great.” Most recently canonized is Pope St. John Paul the Great, but there’s also St. Albert the Great, St....
Charity is Theology
During a conversation with a soon-to-be ordained priest, he told me that he looks forward to writing homilies now that he will no longer be giving reflections in class but...
Spiritual Amnesia: The Problem of Forgetting What God Has Done
“I feel so far from Jesus.” Sigh. “If only He would make Himself known to me,” I lamented to my husband as I collapsed in a heap onto our bed....
