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Is Your Servant Listening? - Blessed Is She

Is Your Servant Listening?

"I have waited, waited for the Lord." // Psalm 40:2 I’d been in my university position for fourteen years. I loved my job, my colleagues were like family to me,...
January 12, 2022
Giving Like God Gives - Blessed Is She

Giving Like God Gives

He said to them in reply, “Whoever has two tunics should share with the person who has none." // Luke 3:11 He clutched both suckers, one in each hand. His...
December 12, 2021
Can You Drink the Cup? - Blessed Is She

Can You Drink the Cup?

As I approached the line for Communion, I felt the words of the Gospel echo in my heart strongly inviting a response. “Can you drink the cup?” Feeling a bit...
October 17, 2021
Exalt in His Love - Blessed Is She

Exalt in His Love

Shortly after graduating college, I felt a tug from the Spirit to ask my new parish if I could start a praise and worship adoration community for the young adults....
September 22, 2021
Victorious Suffering - Blessed Is She

Victorious Suffering

I opened the fridge and sighed heavily. I had to eat, but the prospect brought me zero joy. I pushed aside the tantalizing items I’d gotten the rest of the...
September 14, 2021
Strengthened by That Food - Blessed Is She

Strengthened by That Food

My brother, a priest, was first appointed to a parish with a huge elementary school. One of his favorite duties there was teaching the children about the Eucharist and in...
August 08, 2021
A Passionate Recommitment of Love - Blessed Is She

A Passionate Recommitment of Love

I was driving on the 405 North in Los Angeles; it was the summer of 2018 and the scandals of our beloved Church were raging all over the news. I...
June 06, 2021
Even Deeper Love - Blessed Is She

Even Deeper Love

The conversion of Saint Paul is one of the most epic plot twists in the Bible. If you combined the beginning and final sentence of today’s reading, it would say,...
April 23, 2021
A Tax Collector's Heart for Jesus - Blessed Is She

A Tax Collector's Heart for Jesus

It never occurred to me how much I took for granted of being able to receive Jesus in the Holy Eucharist of the Mass before the pandemic. We always had...
March 13, 2021
Let the Lord Fill the Void - Blessed Is She

Let the Lord Fill the Void

I have a confession to make. I’ve never really been “good” at Lent. In third grade, my CCD teacher asked us to share what we were giving up for Lent....
February 19, 2021
Let God Destroy Your Fear - Blessed Is She

Let God Destroy Your Fear

When I was a little girl, I was afraid of a lot—being alone, strangers, the dark, and, if family pictures are to be believed, Santa Claus and snowmen. Above all,...
January 31, 2021
His Glory, Our Healing - Blessed Is She

His Glory, Our Healing

At a youth conference Mass, I had just knelt down after receiving Holy Eucharist and uttered the prayer, “Lord, who needs Your healing? Show me and give me the courage...
January 12, 2021