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Pretend Our Way into Being Someone Else - Blessed Is She

Pretend Our Way into Being Someone Else

With our modern eyes it can be so easy to see the story of Jacob and Esau and think it somehow pedestrian and almost silly in how easily Issac can...
July 08, 2017
Calling All the Sinners - Blessed Is She

Calling All the Sinners

If you ever have the privilege to wander around Rome, you will undoubtedly stumble across a Caravaggio. The city is littered with paintings by the Baroque master. His use of...
July 07, 2017
Sometimes I'm the Paralytic - Blessed Is She

Sometimes I'm the Paralytic

I am often paralyzed by my sin. I am very good at hiding it with my busy-ness. I couldn’t possibly be paralyzed if I am working all these jobs and...
July 06, 2017
Beauty from Messes - Blessed Is She

Beauty from Messes

Sarah was old and had always been barren so, according to the customs of the time, she told her husband to take her slave as a concubine, that he may...
July 05, 2017
Falling into the Storm - Blessed Is She

Falling into the Storm

Why am I terrified, Lord? Because I don’t know the way from here to the ending. I don’t know what fills the pages of my life between the mess of...
July 04, 2017
Thomas the Martyr - Blessed Is She

Thomas the Martyr

Saint Thomas, whose feast day we celebrate today, is most often remembered for being a man who doubted. Today’s Gospel highlights “doubting Thomas" and his skepticism in seeing the risen...
July 03, 2017
Finding and Losing Life - Blessed Is She

Finding and Losing Life

So much of the Gospel today triggers childhood memories. The first time I heard the verse about not loving your father or mother more than God, I sobbed. Now, as...
July 02, 2017
Laughter and Pain - Blessed Is She

Laughter and Pain

Today is my daughter's birthday, she is one, and those are words I never really believed I'd ever get to say. When I became Catholic in 2013 I made a...
July 01, 2017
Have Hope. God Will Do It. - Blessed Is She

Have Hope. God Will Do It.

Recently a friend of mine and I were having a conversation about hope. This friend is a witness to hope herself, and she frequently encourages and challenges other women to...
June 30, 2017
Your Calling is Important - Blessed Is She

Your Calling is Important

“I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.” (2 Tim 4:7) Do you ever get vocation envy? You know, where you wish you had...
June 29, 2017
Bearing that Good Fruit - Blessed Is She

Bearing that Good Fruit

There is a tree, that while bursting green with life, causes death. No, I’m not talking about that infamous tree from the garden of Eden. I’m talking about the enormous...
June 28, 2017
Where is Jesus in My Life - Blessed Is She

Where is Jesus in My Life

Justice is elusive in my house. With a large family (or any sized family), comes strife. I’ve been trying desperately to instill virtues like respect and kindness into my children’s...
June 27, 2017