2012 Lenten Podcasts

CHA is pleased to offer a fourth series of Lenten reflections. The weekly reflections are for the 2012 season of Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday on Feb. 22, and continues through Holy Saturday, April 7. An Easter season reflection completes the series. May they deepen your spiritual journey and strengthen your relationship with God and others.

The author is Sr. Juliana Casey, a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Mich. She has worked in health care for almost 20 years. Her work has been primarily in the areas of mission integration, ministry formation and sponsorship.

Most recently, she served for several years as the executive vice president of mission integration at Catholic Health East (CHE), where she was a member of the senior management team and worked closely with the sponsors of the health system. She retired from full-time service at CHE in December 2010, but continues to work as a consultant in the areas of sponsorship, governance, scripture studies and ministry formation, and provides retreats and days of reflection for lay persons and religious.

She has lectured widely in both the U.S. and other countries. She has taught at every level of education from grade school through graduate school.

She has written many articles as well as a Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews; Where is God Now: Nuclear Terror, Feminism and the Search for God; and Food for the Journey: Theological Foundations of Catholic Healthcare.

She holds a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) and the doctor of sacred theology from the Katholieke Universitaat te Leuven, Louvain, Belgium. She was among the first women to achieve this degree in the university’s 450 year history.

These reflections are offered as MP3 files for easy downloading and use. Printable PDFs are included for each reflection so that participants can fully experience the message, either in audio or visual delivery.

CHA's previous Lenten reflections series are also available on the Prayer Index.

Note: To download the mp3 to your computer, right click on the title of the podcast and select "Save target as...". If you just want to listen to the reflection without downloading it to your computer you can simply click the link.

For use on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22:

• A Reflection for Ash Wednesday (.pdf)
• MP3 file  (approximate length – 4:23)
  

For use the week of Feb. 26:

• A Reflection for the First Week of Lent (.pdf)
• MP3 file  (approximate length – 5:21)
  

For use the week of March 4:

• A Reflection for the Second Week of Lent (.pdf)
• MP3 file (approximate length – 5:33)
  

For use the week of March 11:

• A Reflection for the Third Week of Lent (.pdf)
• MP3 file (approximate length – 5:49)
  

For use the week of March 18:

• A Reflection for the Fourth Week of Lent (.pdf)
• MP3 file (approximate length – 5:33)
  

For use the week of March 25:

• A Reflection for the Fifth Week of Lent (.pdf)
• MP3 file (approximate length – 4:41)
  

For use the week of Palm Sunday, April 1:

• A Reflection on Palm Sunday (.pdf)
• MP3 file (approximate length – 4:47)
  

For use on Easter Sunday, April 8:

• A Reflection on Easter (.pdf)
• MP3 file (approximate length – 5:49)