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The Difference Between All Saints' and All Souls' Days (and How to Celebrate Both) - Blessed Is She

The Difference Between All Saints' and All Souls' Days (and How to Celebrate Both)

Happy Feast of All Saints! This feast begins the month of November and orders our hearts and prayers toward a posture of giving gratitude. All Saints' Day and All Souls'...
To the Mom with a Messy Home - Blessed Is She

To the Mom with a Messy Home

Sometimes I struggle to keep up with all the mess in my life. And trust me, with a 18-month-old little boy, more often then not there is a lot of...
How to Start a Rosary Group at Your Child’s School - Blessed Is She

How to Start a Rosary Group at Your Child’s School

We’re moms, all of us. That’s what we have in common, along with our Catholic Faith. Every Monday, we drop our big kids at school and meet in the choir...
Weekly Wallpaper // 199 - Blessed Is She

Weekly Wallpaper // 199

But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, 'O God, be merciful to me...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 2 - Blessed Is She

Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 2

Our 2019 Advent Journal, All the Generations: From Genesis to You, is an offering written by our entire Blessed is She team! For the first time this year, we will...
BIS Reviews: The Lion King - Blessed Is She

BIS Reviews: The Lion King

After turning on the news and seeing all of the turmoil that is going on in the world, it's easy to think that the world has abandoned God altogether. It’s...
When You Doubt God's Abundance - Blessed Is She

When You Doubt God's Abundance

Grasping. Clinging. Containing. Owning. Hiding. Hoarding. Defending. These can be our immediate tendencies when something good is within reach. We find ourselves grasping for things and trying to possess them....
Fertility and Childbirth: Does More Control Mean More Disappointment? - Blessed Is She

Fertility and Childbirth: Does More Control Mean More Disappointment?

I'm going to preface this by saying that infertility is devastating. It has always been. If we look back through human history, through literature and the Scriptures, we can see...
Life as a Consecrated Virgin - Blessed Is She

Life as a Consecrated Virgin

I have always had big dreams. I was one of those kids that had a crazy answer to what they wanted to be when they grew up. While other kids...
Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 1 - Blessed Is She

Meet the Advent Journal Writers | Week 1

Our 2019 Advent Journal, All the Generations: From Genesis to You, is an offering written by our entire Blessed is She team! For the first time this year, we will...
Faith + Friday Night Lights - Blessed Is She

Faith + Friday Night Lights

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Believe it or not, I never actually attended a high school football game while I was in high school. My tiny Catholic high school in rural southern Illinois didn’t...
BIS Reads: Theology of Home - Blessed Is She

BIS Reads: Theology of Home

There is something magnetic and enchanting about old Italian families who for generations have produced wine, cheese, or olive oil. Whatever the endeavor, current members speak with pride of the...