Scripture for Life: Ours is a God who gambles on love — over and over again. In today's Gospel, Jesus explains the same dynamic in relation to his life and mission.
Tevin Williams writes about his hope that this Lenten season, "Black Catholics will recognize that in spite of the injustices and odds against us and the standard of perfection often required of us, we will prevail just as Jesus did."
Lent often feels like "New Year's Resolutions: Part II," a sequel released too soon, another call to consider our faults, another failure that could turn to stone. But this Lent, what if we made a practice of softening instead?
Soul Seeing: If each of us is a manifestation of divine Love, Michael Leach writes, then isn't a loving, sensual relationship an expression of Love giving Love back to Love?
Scripture for Life: Be imitators of Christ. Imitate the one who responded first to the marginalized, to society's outcasts, to the ones who feel they can never measure up.
Through a biweekly Zoom prayer meeting, "We have become acquainted with Wisdom, and will cherish and seek her," writes NCR contributor Jean Molesky-Poz.