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Why Self-Compassion is Important for Living Our Faith - Blessed Is She

Why Self-Compassion is Important for Living Our Faith

You forgot to prep dinner before you left for work...again. Now, you have to whip together dinner, do the laundry, and prepare for tomorrow instead enjoying of the relaxing evening...
A Life-Changing Prayer of Surrender - Blessed Is She

A Life-Changing Prayer of Surrender

There is was again. That all-too-familiar restlessness that sometimes overtakes me. If I’m working, I want to be a stay-at-home mom; and if I’m at home I want to work....
How to Join the Catholic Church // Insight Into RCIA - Blessed Is She

How to Join the Catholic Church // Insight Into RCIA

I love the Catholic Faith. I love the richness of its history and the courage of its Saints. There are so many inspiring stories of men and women who have...
Weekly Wallpaper // 138 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 138

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. // John 6:35 Download and...
Son + God - Blessed Is She

Son + God

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and...
Praying for Priestly Vocations with St. John Vianney - Blessed Is She

Praying for Priestly Vocations with St. John Vianney

Eight years of prayer and study pointed to one incredible day. Laudate Dominum rang through our ears as we sang praise to the Lord that this day had finally come....
5 Catholic Novels to Read This Summer - Blessed Is She

5 Catholic Novels to Read This Summer

As August begins, are you planning one last road trip or weekend getaway to the beach or cabin? Before the kids head back to school, we often desire to soak...
Our Lady of Prompt Succor and Hurricane Season - Blessed Is She

Our Lady of Prompt Succor and Hurricane Season

What if I told you that I could weave a story connecting Napoleon, a 19th century pope, the city of New Orleans, and my home in present-day Florida? Would you...
Rooting Earthly Friendships in Christ - Blessed Is She

Rooting Earthly Friendships in Christ

I remember being an elementary schooler, just absolutely over the moon at the thought of going to middle school. I dreamt of friends who would decorate my first locker for...
9 Tips + Resources for Discerning Religious Life - Blessed Is She

9 Tips + Resources for Discerning Religious Life

No matter what stage of life you are in, it is important for every woman in the Church to know some practical tools for vocational discernment. The Latin word vocare...
Walking with St. Ignatius of Loyola - Blessed Is She

Walking with St. Ignatius of Loyola

In the summer of 2015, I had the privilege of following the footsteps of St. Ignatius of Loyola on the Camino Ignaciano in Spain from Loyola to Barcelona. It’s a...
Mystery and Manners Review - Blessed Is She

Mystery and Manners Review

It’s often said that Flannery O’Connor is one of, if not the best Catholic writer of the twentieth century. In her thirty-nine years before dying of lupus, she published two...