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Woven Reflections: Sustainability, Simplicity, Social Sin
A faithful response to God’s call to evangelize is to sharpen our faces and our communities like flint—not as weapons, but as tools of creation and sustainability.
By Neomi De Anda
April 1, 2023
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Our God Who Weeps
This Lent, I pray that I might be converted to follow the example set by Jesus of a righteous passion that moves us to act in the face of death.
By Amirah Orozco
March 24, 2023
Theology
Politics
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Latin America ..read more
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Toward Our Shared Ending
During Lent, we work to move with more determination toward our place of ultimate belonging. We have heard stories of that kingdom that cannot be un-heard.
By Melody S. Gee
March 18, 2023
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Theology
Immigration
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A Reflection for the Third Sunday of Lent
Becoming a Christian is like the process of moving from childhood to adulthood. The realities of both are much more complex than the caricatures presented to us.
By Natalia M. Imperatori-Lee
March 11, 2023
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Lenten Reflections 2023
This Lenten season, Commonweal contributors reflect on spiritual hunger, remembering the departed, and more.
By The Editors
March 5, 2023
Spirituality
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When Life Is Taken
Remembering the deceased is an act of hope. Sharing our faith and experiences together can pull us out of the darkness and into the beauty of Jesus' life.
By Claudia Avila Cosnahan
March 4, 2023
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Spirituality
Death and Dying ..read more
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Ways of the Cross
How a Bavarian village’s once-a-decade Passion play became a wrenching, intimate, sometimes chaotic psychological theo-drama
By Susan Bigelow Reynolds
March 1, 2023
Arts
Jewish-Christian Relations
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1y ago
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The Grace of Wholeheartedness
If union with God in self-sacrificing love is the highest end of a life, providing true happiness, how can we achieve it?
By Zena Hitz
March 1, 2023
Religious Life
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Bread Alone
“Even before Ash Wednesday, our lifestyle was rather Lenten. A kind of full-time fasting: vigilance when we’d like to rest, discipline when we’d like to indulge.”
By Ellen B. Koneck
February 25, 2023
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Repent & Believe
The message that accompanies the ashes we receive on Ash Wednesday should invite us to community, love, and repentance rather than guilt or fear.
By Michael H. Marchal
February 22, 2023
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