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How to Start an Online Catholic Book Club - Blessed Is She

How to Start an Online Catholic Book Club

I have always loved to read since I was a little girl. Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, the Bobbsey Twins, and various other books geared toward young girls were my...
Here, Too: The 2020 Lent Devotional for Catholic Women - Blessed Is She

Here, Too: The 2020 Lent Devotional for Catholic Women

As we close the Advent and Christmas seasons, we enter a brief but beautiful moment of Ordinary Time. And then, in just a matter of weeks, our journey to the...
Catholic Books for Your New Year's Resolutions - Blessed Is She

Catholic Books for Your New Year's Resolutions

We have reached this year's final days. And in a couple of days, we will ring in a new year. When the year comes to a close, I like to...
61 Minutes to a Miracle Book Review - Blessed Is She

61 Minutes to a Miracle Book Review

Many of us probably don’t think twice when we use the term “miracle” in everyday life. We call the 1980 U.S. men’s hockey team’s gold medal a miracle. Buddy the...
An Advent Booklist for Adults - Blessed Is She

An Advent Booklist for Adults

Happy third week of Advent, sisters! I hope this season has been fruitful so far, but if it hasn’t, and especially if it hasn’t, we have a few suggestions of...
5 Books to Read Before Your International Mission Trip - Blessed Is She

5 Books to Read Before Your International Mission Trip

“Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19).   This instruction from Jesus has provided the inspiration for thousands of missionaries over the centuries. Attending Catholic school from...
BIS Reads: Theology of Home - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads: Theology of Home

There is something magnetic and enchanting about old Italian families who for generations have produced wine, cheese, or olive oil. Whatever the endeavor, current members speak with pride of the...
Why the Modern Catholic Needs Flannery O’Connor - Blessed Is She

Why the Modern Catholic Needs Flannery O’Connor

In the twenty-first century, Flannery O’Connor seems to have more of a presence in Catholic conversation, though she’s been a prominent figure in the American literary canon for quite some...
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...
BIS Reads: Rebuking the Devil - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads: Rebuking the Devil

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look around at the state of our chaotic world to see the reality that evil and the Devil do, in fact, exist. Violence,...
BIS Reads: Come, Be My Light - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads: Come, Be My Light

One of the beautiful things about being a millennial is that I have never known a world without Mother Teresa. I didn’t know much about her when I was a...
BIS Reads: Be Brave in the Scared - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads: Be Brave in the Scared

If there’s one word I’d use to describe Mary Lenaburg’s writing, it would be “free.” In her social media presence, in her devotions, she is authentic, honest, unafraid of the...