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Calling + Coming - Blessed Is She

Calling + Coming

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life: Such a Way, as gives us breath: Such a Truth, as ends all strife: Such a Life, as killeth death. Come, my Light,...
Weekly Wallpaper // 150 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 150

Take courage; get up, Jesus is calling you. // Mark 10:49 This week's beautiful wallpapers are from Carolyn of Brass & Mint Co. This beautiful piece of art is a...
Bearing Light Advent Journal // An Interview with the Editor - Blessed Is She

Bearing Light Advent Journal // An Interview with the Editor

As we prepare to celebrate Advent together as a sisterhood, we're deep diving into the creation of this year's Advent Journal called Bearing Light. We sat down with Blessed is...
Accepting Our Village, Accepting Help - Blessed Is She

Accepting Our Village, Accepting Help

It was a Saturday afternoon and my husband was away for the weekend. It was just me and my three kids, three years old and under. I was exhausted, stressed,...
How Edith Stein Helped Me to (Really) Know Myself - Blessed Is She

How Edith Stein Helped Me to (Really) Know Myself

Most of my Catholic friends have several saints with whom they consider to be close spiritual friends, mentors on their life journey. For me some of my favorites include: St....
Leaves + Trees - Blessed Is She

Leaves + Trees

I think my mind will always, at the autumn time of year, drift to an old Jesuit. The letting go of fall, The relinquishment of harvesting The giving of gratitude’s...
The Grace of Enough - Blessed Is She

The Grace of Enough

We were supposed to graduate college, get good jobs with health benefits or go to graduate school, then get really good jobs, secure income, pay off debt, begin our 401K,...
Dissecting Our Emotions and Looking for the Truth - Blessed Is She

Dissecting Our Emotions and Looking for the Truth

In a reporting class I took in college, if a student’s article had any factual errors, the instructor automatically took 50 points off their grade. It didn’t matter how insignificant...
St. Teresa of Avila: Mystic & Reformer - Blessed Is She

St. Teresa of Avila: Mystic & Reformer

A mystic and reformer. St. Teresa of Avila’s heart, mind, and soul were absorbed in all that is Divine and she longed to be with her Spouse, Christ, in Heaven....
Calm + Constant - Blessed Is She

Calm + Constant

Slow me down, Lord. Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give...
Weekly Wallpaper // 148 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 148

Then come, follow me. // Mark 10:21 This week's beautiful wallpapers are from Erica of Be a Heart as our SO important reminder of who to follow. Remember, you get...
The Art of Being Present: Five Lessons From the Eucharist

The Art of Being Present: Five Lessons From the Eucharist

The Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist teaches us how to practice the art of being present in our own lives.