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Extraordinary Women: Mother Teresa - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women: Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa's quotes are gold. She famously once said, "I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts there can be no more pain, and only love."...
Extraordinary Women: St. Theresa of Avila - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women: St. Theresa of Avila

St. Theresa of Avila famously said, “From silly devotions and sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us!” and “A sad nun is a bad nun!” Like Pope Francis today, she knew...
Extraordinary Women: The Women in Our Lives - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women: The Women in Our Lives

Lately, I’ve been fixating on a phrase: perfectly imperfect. As someone with a type B personality, I suppose this confirms for me that I do not need to be perfect....
Extraordinary Women: St. Catherine of Siena - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women: St. Catherine of Siena

When I was in eighth grade, my mom told me, “You don’t choose your confirmation saint—it chooses you.” I waved her advice off like any fourteen-year-old, and had my heart...
Extraordinary Women: St. Gianna - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women: St. Gianna

St. Gianna Beretta Molla is my homegirl. As a woman quickly approaching her late 20s who is Catholic, called to marriage, and gasp! still single, I find the fact that...
Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time: Blessed Is She Community - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time: Blessed Is She Community

We are so happy to have you here. In our Facebook groups and Twitter chats. At Blessed Brunches and the Beauty From Ashes Retreat. No matter where we come together,...
Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time: St. Clare - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time: St. Clare

This post originally appeared on Blessed Are The Feet. I need a qualifying clause before I begin this post: This is a post about sacrificial love in marriage. It’s a...
Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time: St. Therese of Lisieux - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time: St. Therese of Lisieux

The last six months have been a liturgical whirlwind. Advent sprinted by and ran headlong into Christmas morning. After only five short weeks of Lent, we were thrust into the...
Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time - Blessed Is She

Extraordinary Women for Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time can often feel like the doldrums of the liturgical year. We aren't preparing for a major feast or in a celebratory season. Summer stretches out ahead of us,...
Good Friday // Feel the Nails - Blessed Is She

Good Friday // Feel the Nails

Good Friday…the day that started it all…our salvation and our great hope that one day we will be with Christ again in Heaven. How odd is it that every Good...
Holy Thursday // Lead Me To The Cross - Blessed Is She

Holy Thursday // Lead Me To The Cross

He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Master, are you going to wash my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing, you do not...
Switching Out The Wineskins - Blessed Is She

Switching Out The Wineskins

People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins,...