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Apr 2025
28m 37s

The Work of Lent: Why We Dare to Hope

JESUIT CONFERENCE
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In this episode of our limited Lenten series, Sr. Erin McDonald, CSJ, digital youth minister for the Congregation of St. Joseph and co-host of the "Beyond the Habit" podcast challenges us to hope. 
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