Lenten Reflections

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What We’ve Been Missing

This year has taught us in an unprecedented way what it means to hope for resurrection.

By Roberto J. De La Noval

April 3, 2021

Article

Two Adoptions

“While nothing can alter or supersede my first adoption, I believe my second adoption might resurrect some of the first one’s losses.”

By Melody S. Gee

April 1, 2021

The Last Word

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Holy Waiting

“Palm Sunday and the Holy Triduum set us up to discover that what we hope for, what we wait for, isn’t always what we expect it to be.”

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 28, 2021

Article

Discerning the Grain of Wheat

With an end in sight, we’re questioning whether our pre-pandemic way of living was, indeed, the best way to live.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 21, 2021

Article

Parking Lot Revelations

In “parking lot” conversations, removed from official channels, women of faith can often express themselves with greater honesty.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 14, 2021

Women in the Church

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Growing Pains

Ecclesial leadership must turn authentically to Jesus to find prophetic, transparent, inclusive, and creative ways forward.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 7, 2021

Article

Spring Cleaning

Praying, like cleaning, is often an act of upkeep rather than inspiration. But it is still noble work.

By Kate Lucky

March 4, 2021

Article

The memory reminds me that the present moment is fleeting, especially if the present moment is painful.

Grace in Memory

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

February 27, 2021

Theology

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Lenten Vulnerability

During Lent, if we consider the plight of others and act in mercy, we discover that our relationship with God reaches new levels of intimacy.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

February 21, 2021

Poverty

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Perpetual Lent

How do you enter a time of mourning when you’ve been in one so long?

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

February 17, 2021

Article

Poem | Ash Wednesday

ashes proclaim this day of dust / a beginning / and a consummation / marking us with His dark, sacred solidarity

By Sr. Lou Ella Hickman

January 28, 2021

Poetry

Article

Light Is Coming

We’re all on an unexpected and unwanted Lenten retreat right now, and it’s not one we would have planned. Yet God is still there.

By Thomas Baker

March 22, 2020

Theology

Article

Refuge of Love

We’re at a moment right now when physical presence isn’t possible. But in these next few days, picture it anyway, and the loving relationships that sustain you most.

By Thomas Baker

March 29, 2020

Article

The World at Its Worst

It will be hard this week to be without our parishes, our friends, and the Holy Week liturgies. But maybe even in solitude, we can be given new life.

By Thomas Baker

April 5, 2020

Article

Already & Not Yet

How do we make our “Easter duty” in a year like this one, when there’s nowhere to go to feel like we have done something?

By Thomas Baker

April 12, 2020

Article

Bread Arrives

On Good Friday, we are asked to recall Jesus's Way of the Cross, and to walk with the destitute, the dying, and the outcasts.

By Patrick Henry

March 23, 2020

Article

My forehead is an unfurled
name. I will always be warm
with his body I bore like a mother.

Poem | Rood Riddle

By Pete Green

January 27, 2021

Poetry

Feature

Last Supper

This photo was taken was taken at a small Bible-based rehabilitation center in Georgia. It was a moment when everything lined up right.

By William Glaser Wilson

March 25, 2020