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Spring Spiritual Cleaning

Spring Spiritual Cleaning

These past few weeks I have begun to hear the song of springtime. While the melody remains faint, if I listen closely, I can hear expectant whispers of the symphony...
March 26, 2024
Gaze: A Reflection for Holy Week

Gaze: A Reflection for Holy Week

Read: Then they seized Him and led Him away, bringing Him into the high priest’s house, and Peter was following at a distance. And when they had kindled a fire...
March 24, 2024
World Poetry Day Featuring The Saints

World Poetry Day Featuring The Saints

Pious Musings from the Saints There’s a quote from the English philosopher and writer Aldous Huxley in which he claims, "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible...
March 20, 2024
Spring: Spiritual Significance and Bible Verses

Spring: Spiritual Significance and Bible Verses

On a late summer day, in the Italian hillside town of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI was speaking of springtime.  He was encouraging the ancient practice of lectio divina, which is...
March 18, 2024
Saint Patrick and Forgiveness

Saint Patrick and Forgiveness

“How did so great and salutary a gift come to me, the gift of knowing and loving God, though at the cost of homeland and family?” Saint Patrick wrote these...
March 16, 2024
Habits: A Prayer About Sacrifice

Habits: A Prayer About Sacrifice

Read:  “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house...
March 10, 2024
Healed and Restored // International Women's Day

Healed and Restored // International Women's Day

Every March since 1911, International Women’s Day has been held around the world. This is a very important and necessary recognition of the needs and struggles of women and girls....
March 07, 2024
Female Doctors of the Church

Female Doctors of the Church

If you are like me, occasions like International Women’s Month bring to mind a vast number of women and the work they are about in the world: religious Sisters, moms,...
March 03, 2024
Writerly Reflections on International Writers’ Day

Writerly Reflections on International Writers’ Day

“You should start a blog,” my friend declared. At the time—some sixteen years ago—I barely knew what a blog was. And I certainly did not know what business I had...
March 02, 2024
Monthly Wallpaper from Blessed is She // 374

Monthly Wallpaper from Blessed is She // 374

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February 29, 2024
Baby Names For The Year of Prayer

Baby Names For The Year of Prayer

In preparation for 2025 as a Jubilee Year, Pope Francis declared 2024 to be the Year of Prayer in the hopes that the faithful will rediscover the centrality of prayer...
February 28, 2024
Dancing: A Prayer About Comparison

Dancing: A Prayer About Comparison

Read: “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one of the...
February 25, 2024