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What to Do When Faced with an Unexpected Pregnancy - Blessed Is She

What to Do When Faced with an Unexpected Pregnancy

Imagine the sharp confusion you feel when the wind gets knocked out of you, or the terror you’d feel if you got swept away by a fierce current in the...
Finding a Great Catholic Bible Study - Blessed Is She

Finding a Great Catholic Bible Study

You know the stereotype: Catholics don't know the Bible. Unfortunately, I perpetuated that stereotype in my own life until my early 20s. I grew up Catholic and understood the Sacraments,...
Tangible Ways to Help Stop Human Trafficking - Blessed Is She

Tangible Ways to Help Stop Human Trafficking

How I wish that all of us would hear God’s cry: ‘Where is your brother?’ (Gen. 4:9). Where is your brother or sister who is enslaved? Where is the brother...
How to Host a Lent Group + Gathering - Blessed Is She

How to Host a Lent Group + Gathering

This year's Lent Journal, To the End, is a little different than journals in the past. It has the same heart, hue, and depthful sharing as years gone by. But...
When + Where to Use the Blessed is She Lent Journal - Blessed Is She

When + Where to Use the Blessed is She Lent Journal

Maybe you’ve already bought the new Blessed is She Lent Journal, To the End, and you’re filled with hopeful anticipation to begin. But you can’t help but wonder if you’ll...
St. Josephine Bakhita + Other Black Saints - Blessed Is She

St. Josephine Bakhita + Other Black Saints

Right before His Ascension, Jesus tells His Apostles, to “...make disciples of all nations…” (Matthew 28:18). After an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the Apostles went and did just that....
How to Intentionally Use Social Media - Blessed Is She

How to Intentionally Use Social Media

Each of us have our favorite ways to connect on social media and create connection. There is a lot of good that can come from it. But let’s be honest...
To the End: The 2019 Blessed is She Lent Journal for Women - Blessed Is She

To the End: The 2019 Blessed is She Lent Journal for Women

I don't know about you, but sometimes I approach Lent with a self-improvement mentality. When I think about what to give up, take up, and reflect upon, I tend to...
The Beauty of Catholic Schools - Blessed Is She

The Beauty of Catholic Schools

As the product of a Catholic elementary school education, a current provider of Catholic education, and a supporter of it for my own children, I’m so excited to be celebrating...
How to Overcome Guilt - Blessed Is She

How to Overcome Guilt

I still remember the hurt. The pain I had as a young girl. Some girls from my class called me to say they were having a sleepover and I wasn’t...
When You Don't Feel "Catholic-Catholic" - Blessed Is She

When You Don't Feel "Catholic-Catholic"

God led me to her, who led me to Blessed is She, who will walk me back home. I think I might be the kind of woman the sisterhood here...
5 Ways to Know Yourself and Your Gifts Better - Blessed Is She

5 Ways to Know Yourself and Your Gifts Better

A year ago it hit me. I woke up in the realization that I was *finally* in a different place. It was like the fog had lifted and the clouds...