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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
Liquid Grace: A Theology of Coffee

Liquid Grace: A Theology of Coffee

A couple of winters ago, I had to give up my annual Christmastime visit with my parents due to various members of my family coming down with the flu a...
February 21, 2024
The Practice of the Presence of God // BiS Reads

The Practice of the Presence of God // BiS Reads

Pages with highlighted sentences, notes written in ink, and coffee stains. These are some of my favorite kinds of pages to peel open, because it usually means it’s a book...
February 17, 2024
Ask For More

Ask For More

No matter where you are vocationally this Saint Valentine's Day, Jesus wants to spend it with you. So much so that this year, Ash Wednesday falls on the feast of...
February 13, 2024
Growing Closer To God Through Personal Style

Growing Closer To God Through Personal Style

Saint John Paul II once said, “The human being is unique and unrepeatable, somebody thought of and chosen from eternity, some[one] called and identified by his own name.” What if...
February 09, 2024