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BIS Travels: Our Lady of Good Help Shrine, Wisconsin - Blessed Is She

BIS Travels: Our Lady of Good Help Shrine, Wisconsin

Champion, Wisconsin, isn’t a place you’d expect to find much. It lays a long stretch of cornfields away from nearby Dyckesville and Algoma. Somewhere close is a town named Alaska....
Weekly Wallpaper // 112 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 112

It's the Transfiguration of the Lord this week. In the second reading, 2 Paul 1:17-18, it says: "This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased." We...
Weekly Wallpaper // 111 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 111

MJ of Pars Caeli enlisted her daughter to help her design this beautiful wallpaper. Her daughter painted, and then MJ handlettered on top. It is SO beautiful. Give your servant,...
Weekly Wallpaper // 110 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 110

The perfect sunny wallpaper for summertime by the amazing Emily of Emily Rachelle Designs. The righteousness will shine like the sun in the kingdom of the Father. Matthew 13:43 You...
Weekly Wallpaper // 109 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 109

A mid week surprise of the most beautiful wallpaper by Marie of Fawnly Prints. The sufferings of the present time are as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed...
What Every Woman Needs in Her Relational Toolkit - Blessed Is She

What Every Woman Needs in Her Relational Toolkit

I used to think I knew exactly what went into stable, solid relationships with other people. I thought I knew how to have a healthy, emotional relationship with a guy....
Seven Ways to Thrive in Ministry Work - Blessed Is She

Seven Ways to Thrive in Ministry Work

Hi, My Name is MaryRuth and I am addicted to saying "YES." I grew up in a congregational church where everyone had a role and most people had two or...
Weekly Wallpaper // 108 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 108

We love this wallpaper made by Tara of Frameworthy Designs because it reminds us not only in the verse from Sunday's readings to take rest, but also in her beautiful...
Eating Your Spiritual Veggies - Blessed Is She

Eating Your Spiritual Veggies

At nine months postpartum, I was using the excuse of still nursing my youngest to not pay much attention to what kind of food and how much of it I...
Weekly Wallpaper // 107 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 107

In good times, I will sing the goodness of the Lord. In bad times, I will sing the goodness of the Lord. For ever I will sing the goodness of...
Liturgical Living in July for the Everyday Woman - Blessed Is She

Liturgical Living in July for the Everyday Woman

Welcome to the month dedicated to the Most Precious Blood, ladies. Let that pour over you, literally. Let the Most Precious Blood of Christ flow into your life and wash...
BiS Travels: Our Lady of the Angels, Costa Rica - Blessed Is She

BiS Travels: Our Lady of the Angels, Costa Rica

  People are always amazed by the idea that here in Costa Rica, there is an active volcano virtually in my backyard. We can sit on our porch with coffee...