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This is the End
First Reading: 1 John 2:18-21 Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that...
Leave the Struggles Behind
First Reading: 1 John 2:12-17 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him...
The Heart of Your Mother
First Reading: 1 John 2:3-11 And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He who says "I know him" but disobeys his...
Acting Out of Love
Feast of the Holy Family First Reading: Sirach 3:2-7, 12-14 For the Lord honored the father above the children, and he confirmed the right of the mother over her sons....
That Our Joy May Be Complete
Feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist First Reading: 1 John 1:1-4 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which...
Meaning in Life and Death
Merry Christmas! I hope you had a truly blessed day yesterday and that you're continuing the celebration of the Christmas octave with crazy amounts of joy in your heart....
The Nativity of the Lord
Take this moment for joy. Today we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Savior of the world. Today is the day we put too many expectations on ourselves, our...
God Always Answers
And you, Child, will be called the prophet of the most high . . . . These words sound unremarkable, even normal to many of us from our vantage here...
You and I Are Handmaidens
In a few short days, Christmas will be here. Every year I resolve to make this a holy Advent and not to get wrapped up in the commercialism or...
She Has the Gumption
Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you! The Lord is with you. How many times have we heard this before? It is said at every Mass, at...
The First Joyful Mystery
This is my first time writing for Blessed is She, and I was not at all prepared to reflect on such an intense reading. The Annunciation. It’s one of...
Longing Together
Infertility during Advent? The worst. Take a whole season about waiting for a baby to arrive, and then plop a desperate, hormonal, weepy not-yet-mother-to-be right in the middle. Ugly. I...
