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To the Mom with a Messy Home - Blessed Is She

To the Mom with a Messy Home

Sometimes I struggle to keep up with all the mess in my life. And trust me, with a 18-month-old little boy, more often then not there is a lot of...
How to Start a Rosary Group at Your Child’s School - Blessed Is She

How to Start a Rosary Group at Your Child’s School

We’re moms, all of us. That’s what we have in common, along with our Catholic Faith. Every Monday, we drop our big kids at school and meet in the choir...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 2 - Blessed Is She

Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 2

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...
When You Doubt God's Abundance - Blessed Is She

When You Doubt God's Abundance

Grasping. Clinging. Containing. Owning. Hiding. Hoarding. Defending. These can be our immediate tendencies when something good is within reach. We find ourselves grasping for things and trying to possess them....
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 1 - Blessed Is She

Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 1

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...
How to Maintain a Fruitful Prayer Rhythm - Blessed Is She

How to Maintain a Fruitful Prayer Rhythm

Several years ago, I was struggling to keep a consistent rhythm of prayer in my life. At the time, I was a mom of six young children, and life was...
The 2019 Blessed is She Catholic Advent Journal for Women: All The Generations - Blessed Is She

The 2019 Blessed is She Catholic Advent Journal for Women: All The Generations

Where we come from matters. Despite our experience of family life, our origin stories play a large role in who we are today. What our grandmothers, and great-grandmothers, and great-great-great-great-great...
Harvest Time and Letting Go - Blessed Is She

Harvest Time and Letting Go

Metaphors are a powerful tool for teaching, and there are few metaphors richer than that of bringing something new to birth. Two Kinds of Birth I always find it interesting...
On the History of the Living Rosary - Blessed Is She

On the History of the Living Rosary

My relationship with praying the Rosary has been off and on for the past ten years. Returning home from Marian pilgrimage sites, for a time I would earnestly pray the...
Ways to Imitate the Poverty of St. Francis No Matter Your Vocation or State in Life - Blessed Is She

Ways to Imitate the Poverty of St. Francis No Matter Your Vocation or State in Life

Often, when I think of St. Francis of Assisi, I feel overwhelmed by the legacy of his holiness. At first glance, the heights of his sanctity seem out of reach....
St. Theodore Guerin + Trusting in Providence - Blessed Is She

St. Theodore Guerin + Trusting in Providence

In 2004, I was an awkward, gangly freshman with an unfortunate haircut (weren’t we all?). My new high school had no lockers, no athletic fields, no bleachers in the gymnasium....
How to Grow Closer to Your Guardian Angel - Blessed Is She

How to Grow Closer to Your Guardian Angel

Guardian angels are way cooler than most people realize. I blame bad religious art, misrepresentations in the media, and a lack of emphasis on them in religious education. To be...