The Well // Mentorship
THE WELL MENTORSHIP WHERE YOUR THIRST MEETS THE LIVING WATER If you long for intimacy in prayer but don’t know how… If you desire to live a virtuous life but need a mentor… If you’ve been searching for a community…
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The Gradual Light of Resurrection
My friend listened intently as I shared about my health, which had become an increasingly heavy burden. She nodded in empathy and offered a small word of encouragement, one I’ve never forgotten: “Remember that the Cross always leads to Resurrection—at…
Rise Up Virtues Devotional for Kids
Rise Up: Shining with Virtue is a beautiful and remarkable collection on our Catholic faith for today’s children. This compilation of over a dozen writers offers, for the first time, an in-depth, age-appropriate view of virtues, steeped in Catholic tradition, for children ages 8-12.
Centered on virtues as taught by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Summa, the reflections are accompanied by Scripture verses, Saint quotes, and heart-felt prayers designed to plant the seeds of a prayer life and guide it to blossom.
Rise Up: Shining with Virtue helps us learn more about the virtues our beautiful Faith gives us so as to plant seeds that will last a lifetime.
It is 5×7″, perfect bound, and designed/printed in the USA.
Militant Demands and God’s Greater Plan
A few short years ago, I held the title of Army Commander, just like my friend Naaman (2 Kings 5). He was plagued with leprosy; I’ve struggled for years with a chronic illness. Disease seems contrary to the able-bodied demands…
Longing for Love
I gazed out at idyllic sweeping meadows and the soaring Alps above me, almost convinced I’d been dropped in the Sound of Music instead of a summer internship—save for my hot indignation at the letter in my hand. I’d broken…
They Had Angels and Messages
“Angels and messages—the Holy Family had it so easy!” I lamented to my friend, my initial patience and surrender to God’s will waning as time wore on. My humor was a thinly-veiled cry of confusion and frustration as I flailed…
Hiding in Plain Sight
I didn’t want to move to Colorado. Visiting was fine, but the stark landscape was so different from home. I was used to the lush greenery, rolling hills and winding rivers of the East Coast. Nevertheless, God told us to…
Lord, Where Are You in this Suffering?
So much of today’s Word is meant to bring consolation: “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted” (Psalm 34:19). “The one who serves God willingly is heard” (Sirach 35:20). “The prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds . . ….
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 be journeying together as a community not only through the Advent season,…
Unlikely Friendship
As you read this, most of the Blessed is She Team is gathered on retreat. We are a small community of extraordinarily ordinary women—a room full of sinners striving for sainthood—serving a globe full of other beautiful women. We’ve lived…
Lies, Love Notes, and Identity
My parents recently gave me a box of old pictures from storage. Inside, a familiar face stared back—mine, morphing from sixth to twelfth grade. I looked happy enough, but the sudden flood of memories contained plenty of awkwardness, drama, and…
