Lenten Reflections 2022

Article

Authority, Participation, and Women

“Authentic collaboration in the Church is possible only when women are seen as whole and necessary, not as challenges or threats to the ‘purity’ of clergy.”

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

April 3, 2022

Women in the Church

Synodality

Lent

Article

Joyful Palms & Crying Stones

Palm Sunday reminds us that some joys cannot be experienced until we have first experienced sorrow.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

April 10, 2022

Lent

Social Justice

Article

Poem | Salt

Domestic presence, staple, / residue of tears, / buoyancy, the rocking buoy / saying to drifting children / here, where I am / you may drop your nets

By Marjorie Mir

December 21, 2021

Poetry

Article

Images of Death & Hope

We often try to avoid painful images or memories. But God asks us to cultivate the ground around them, where grace can be found.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 20, 2022

Lent

Death and Dying

Ukraine

Article

Promises & Miracles

Pilgrimage sites can be like trusted family elders: we need to visit them, respect them, and thank them for the ways they help us throughout our lives.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 27, 2022

Lent

Latin America

Article

Gratitude in the Ashes

On this first Sunday of Lent, Moses’s words express the collective wounds of exile and oppression faced by refugees and immigrants.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 6, 2022

Lent

Immigration

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

Spirituality

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

Lent

Coronavirus

Theology

Article

Pitching Tents for No One

If the institutional Church takes seriously the call to synodality, then its clergy must be willing to humbly consider the Spirit that moves its people.

By Claudia Avila Cosnahan

March 13, 2022

Synodality

U.S. Catholicism

Lent