The Season of Lent ultimately reminds us that holiness is possible for us only when we enter into the struggle.

It is only when we can begin to live for others—a truly worthy goal for any of us during Lent—that we have any hope of growing into the people of charity and prayer that God calls us to be.

John calls his desert-followers—and each of us—to Advent honesty and vulnerability. In his clarion call, Advent hope and the hard work of conversion come together.

As we take comfort in the prayer of Savior and the mercy that we receive through him, we are also invited to pray for others, even as Moses prayed for his own people.

Saint Katharine Drexel embodied the work for justice and reconciliation in her ministry among Native American and African American communities across the United States