A nun holds a rosary during an Ash Wednesday drive-thru service outside a church Feb. 17, 2021, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez)
A series of conversations on spirituality in our second Lent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Watch: Soul Seeing for Lent host Michael Leach speaks with Franciscan Sr. Ilia Delio about finding God in everything and balancing spirituality and science.
Soul Seeing: We are invited to see the invisible in the visible, to notice and celebrate every miracle of life, whether a tiny twig, a small flower, or a burly human, because everything is bursting with divine life.
Watch: Soul Seeing for Lent host Michael Leach talks with Nicole Symmonds about finding humanity on Twitter, spreading positivity and her journey to Catholicism.
Tweeting through Lent has meant holding space for people and taking their words seriously. It has helped me make sense of how flesh uses words to make sense of its place in the world.
Soul Seeing: Letting yourself be known in your relationship with God means, more or less, the same as it does in any relationship: You must speak about your life, share your feelings and reveal yourself openly.
Watch: Host Michael Leach speaks with Loretto Sr. Jeannine Gramick about her ministry, her correspondence with Pope Francis and what she's doing this Lent.
Soul Seeing: Pope Francis' letters are like the soothing hand of a friend who has reached out to heal my wounds and lead me out of a long and barren wasteland.
Soul Seeing for Lent: The mystery of resurrection is the constant and universal pattern, which is then made dramatic, daring and trustful in the personal body of Jesus. Science is now helping us to think this way.
From Where I Stand: Lent is not about giving up our adult candy or immersing ourselves in pain. Lent is about being honest with ourselves, changing what needs to change in our lives, making our world a better place and growing into the Light.
Soul Seeing for Lent: We are already sacrificing, and so many others have sacrificed so much more: lives and livelihoods, homes and businesses, health and safety. What more can we give up?
Soul Seeing for Lent: The relevance of Psalms written, some perhaps set to musical accompaniment thousands of years ago, is a contemporary miracle. Maybe it's time to give up what you were planning to do without this Lent and look to the Psalms instead.
Faith Seeking Understanding: What does it mean to approach the penitential season of Lent in a time of global pandemic in which nearly everybody has experienced involuntary self-denial?
