Welcoming & Embracing the Stranger: Lenten Reflections with the Artwork of James Tissot

February 19, 2026 - Thursday after Ash Wednesday

We're excited to present “Welcoming and Embracing the Stranger," daily reflections for you to ponder and to pray with as we prepare ourselves for the great feast of Holy Week and the Easter season. 

Every Sunday, Fr. Dominic Ciriaco will lead a Visio Divina where we can look at the artwork chosen for each week of Lent. We will reflect on and pray with the art, and then throughout the week, our written reflections will be accompanied by this art. We will be meditating on the Scripture of the day alongside the artwork. 

Prompt our actions with your inspiration, we pray, O Lord, and further them with your constant help, that all we do may always begin from you and by you be brought to completion. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. (Roman Missal)

Rev. Dominic Ciriaco, Director of Preaching as Hospitality Formation Program and Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology

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