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Resources for College Gals in Quarantine - Blessed Is She

Resources for College Gals in Quarantine

Hey, friend. We see you. It can be difficult to cope with this time of uncertainty from a place of isolation. The good news? You're not alone. At Blessed is...
Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Your Baby’s Baptism - Blessed Is She

Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Your Baby’s Baptism

It was October 22, 2016, the feast of our family patron Saint, Pope John Paul II. Two-and-a-half years earlier, in the same stone cathedral, our beloved Passionist priest looked at...
How to Maintain Long-Distance Friendships - Blessed Is She

How to Maintain Long-Distance Friendships

I met one of my very best friends late in college. We bonded during my junior year in design classes over Ingrid Michaelson and Helvetica fonts, studied abroad together the...
How to Lead a Small Group Remotely + Online - Blessed Is She

How to Lead a Small Group Remotely + Online

Small groups are a wonderful way to build community and connect with other women in your area. Many of you have connected with Catholic women through Blessed Brunches or through...
Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day - Blessed Is She

Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day

Many Americans hail heritage from the Emerald Isle, myself included. Some of my great grandparents (and great great grandparents) on both sides of my family emigrated from Ireland. Growing up,...
Mourning the Life You Envisioned - Blessed Is She

Mourning the Life You Envisioned

“Let go of the life you imagined for the life God has ready for you.” How many times have you heard, or read, some version of those words? It seems...
How to Support Foster Families - Blessed Is She

How to Support Foster Families

The Works of Mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in his spiritual and bodily necessities. Instructing, advising, consoling, comforting are spiritual works...
BIS Reads: Ministry of Ordinary Places - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads: Ministry of Ordinary Places

Last fall, there was a terrible commotion down the street from me—firetrucks and police cars were everywhere, blocking the road. Only later did we come to find out that one...
What’s So Hard About Making, Being, and Keeping Friends as Adults? - Blessed Is She

What’s So Hard About Making, Being, and Keeping Friends as Adults?

I think I watched too many episodes of Friends and Golden Girls in my formative years. I grew up with this idea that when I was an adult, I’d have...
The Restore Retreat Can Change Your Life - Blessed Is She

The Restore Retreat Can Change Your Life

Get ready for a life-changing experience. Join us on a Blessed is She retreat, where we can't wait to see what Jesus does in your heart.

Where Is Your Village? - Blessed Is She

Where Is Your Village?

I was on the phone with a friend, talking about living with anxiety and getting ready to go back to school. She admitted, “I’m scared I can’t do it. I...
How to Start an Online Catholic Book Club - Blessed Is She

How to Start an Online Catholic Book Club

I have always loved to read since I was a little girl. Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, the Bobbsey Twins, and various other books geared toward young girls were my...