Well, what I’ ve realized is that wearing ashes on this day is like being at a rally. It’ s seeing all those who share this communal commitment to conversion during these six and a half weeks of Lent.

Simone

Campbell, SSS

Well, what I’ ve realized is that wearing ashes on this day is like being at a rally. It’ s seeing all those who share this communal commitment to conversion during these six and a half weeks of Lent.

In freedom from anxiety, there is freedom for becoming who we are truly meant to be

Rhonda

Miska

In freedom from anxiety, there is freedom for becoming who we are truly meant to be

God’s call for us to participate in God’s own holiness compels us to reject evil, to speak truth to power, to condemn the wicked.

Nichole

Flores

God’s call for us to participate in God’s own holiness compels us to reject evil, to speak truth to power, to condemn the wicked.

What happens in our hearts and minds determines our actions. Jesus asks us to keep our hearts and minds as joy-filled, generous, and loving as they were created to be.

Anne

Krane

What happens in our hearts and minds determines our actions. Jesus asks us to keep our hearts and minds as joy-filled, generous, and loving as they were created to be.

By beginning to remove the blinding, stifling oppression within us, we can more readily recognize oppression around us.

Krisanne

Vaillancourt Murphy

By beginning to remove the blinding, stifling oppression within us, we can more readily recognize oppression around us.

We are the ones seized by and sent by Christ Jesus and the Spirit as blessing-- to be blessing and to give blessing to those who cannot see any blessing anywhere

Janet

Schlichting

We are the ones seized by and sent by Christ Jesus and the Spirit as blessing-- to be blessing and to give blessing to those who cannot see any blessing anywhere

I felt as if Jesus were inviting me to follow him and return to that horrid, dark state prison. I felt drawn to the light that was there in the darkness.

Jocelyn

Collen

I felt as if Jesus were inviting me to follow him and return to that horrid, dark state prison. I felt drawn to the light that was there in the darkness.

Like John the Baptist, we can recognize [Christ] in our own wilderness and know that the violence of our world will never be the last word. The last word is mercy...

Diana

Culbertson, OP

Like John the Baptist, we can recognize [Christ] in our own wilderness and know that the violence of our world will never be the last word. The last word is mercy...

We should be prepared that-- in what our worldly and even educated minds do not anticipate-- God will manifest himself.

Carolyn

Woo

We should be prepared that-- in what our worldly and even educated minds do not anticipate-- God will manifest himself.

In 2017, let us dedicate ourselves prayerfully and actively to becoming nonviolent people, a nonviolent Church, and a nonviolent world. Let us welcome the Prince of Peace.

Marie

Dennis

In 2017, let us dedicate ourselves prayerfully and actively to becoming nonviolent people, a nonviolent Church, and a nonviolent world. Let us welcome the Prince of Peace.

... in what way are we laboring, like Mary, to birth God's abiding love into a world so much in need of it?

Christine

Schenk, C.S.J.

... in what way are we laboring, like Mary, to birth God's abiding love into a world so much in need of it?

In a world where exclusion of the other and fear of the other is increasingly becoming the norm, we who follow Emmanuel are called to walk, live and talk in a different way

Nontando

Hadebe

In a world where exclusion of the other and fear of the other is increasingly becoming the norm, we who follow Emmanuel are called to walk, live and talk in a different way

The Juan Diegos of this world know that Jesus was born not only in Bethlehem some 2000 years ago, but is waiting to be born anew in the lives of modern day Juan Diegos.

Nancy

Pineda-Madrid

The Juan Diegos of this world know that Jesus was born not only in Bethlehem some 2000 years ago, but is waiting to be born anew in the lives of modern day Juan Diegos.

Ultimately this day of rejoicing is about celebrating what is good in order to find the strength to fix what is wrong.

Kerry Alys

Robinson

Ultimately this day of rejoicing is about celebrating what is good in order to find the strength to fix what is wrong.

Never have I heard preachers encourage women to emulate Mary’s fierce denunciation of injustices and her bold proclamation of God’s mercy

Barbara E.

Reid, O.P.

Never have I heard preachers encourage women to emulate Mary’s fierce denunciation of injustices and her bold proclamation of God’s mercy