The butterfly has always been one of my favorite images for the transition from Lent to the celebration of Easter. As Jesus emerges from his death into the new life of the resurrected Christ, so too does the caterpillar emerge from its cocoon, no longer an earth-bound creature that crawls but a winged beauty that inspires and delights us. In ordinary years, my focus, and subsequently the focus of some of the Church’s Easter art projects, has been on the beautiful butterfly that emerges. This year, as we enter our third week of “sheltering in place,” I find myself wondering what exactly happens inside that darn cocoon.
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