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BIS Christmas Gift Guide: Catholic Gifts for Everyone on Your List

BIS Christmas Gift Guide: Catholic Gifts for Everyone on Your List

Blessed Is She is happy to announce its 2024 Christmas gift guide! Get a jump start on holiday shopping and enjoy special savings, so you can enter the season of Advent with peace of mind.
Enter Advent with A Thrill of Hope

Enter Advent with A Thrill of Hope

This Advent, Blessed Is She would like to walk with you in hope through our new Advent devotional, A Thrill of Hope.
Back-to-School Prayers to Share

Back-to-School Prayers to Share

Back-to-school prayers offer encouragement for all those who are going back to school: students, teachers, and parents alike.
How to Untangle Our Feminine Hearts From the Knots of Our Wounds

How to Untangle Our Feminine Hearts From the Knots of Our Wounds

It’s in the heart that we feel love and give love. Our hearts are also the place where we hold the pain from our wounds. Ask the Lord to untangle your heart from any wounds and replace them with His truth, love, and mercy.

Liquid Grace: A Theology of Coffee - Blessed Is She

Liquid Grace: A Theology of Coffee

A couple of winters ago, I had to give up my annual Christmastime visit with my parents due to various members of my family coming down with the flu a...
2023 Book List - Blessed Is She

2023 Book List

The New Year A Time to Reflect and Resolve One of my favorite quotes comes from the most quotable Catholic: G.K. Chesterton. He writes of the New Year and resolutions:...
From the Manger to the Mass: Advent Preparation for Kids - Blessed Is She

From the Manger to the Mass: Advent Preparation for Kids

Every Advent season, God invites us to carefully prepare our hearts for the annual remembrance of the Incarnation of His Son, Jesus. That first Christmas was the day when Jesus...
Entering Into Advent - Blessed Is She

Entering Into Advent

As I anticipate Advent’s approach, I wonder, how will this year be different? Every year I make the “Lent” and “Advent” comparison, asking myself whether or not I should really...
2023 Catholic Holiday Gift Guide | Catholic Women-Owned Businesses - Blessed Is She

2023 Catholic Holiday Gift Guide | Catholic Women-Owned Businesses

We know you have a lot on your plate this Thanksgiving week (literally and figuratively) and we wanted to make your Christmas shopping easier. After all, don't you want to...
On the Epiphany and Welcoming Strangers - Blessed Is She

On the Epiphany and Welcoming Strangers

Recently during Advent our family hosted what the kids named Blessed is She Advent kids’ club. We invited my son’s classmates to join us in doing the Blessed is She...
Pursuing Peace // No More Excuses - Blessed Is She

Pursuing Peace // No More Excuses

My mind has a tendency to wander. I float between writing notes on my phone, post-it notes, my Blessed is She planner, and the notepad on the kitchen counter. I...
Having Another Kid Without Losing It - Blessed Is She

Having Another Kid Without Losing It

I run into many people who can’t believe I have “so many” kids. Whether at the grocery store, at the library, at church, or at public gatherings or parties, people...