UNRAVEL - Podcast For Women

In this final episode of our Lenten series The Garden of Lent, Sr. Rita joins me once again to reflect on Flowering and Fruit-bearing — the quiet, sacred culmination of a season of hidden growth. Drawing from Scripture, the lives of the saints, and the witness of Our Blessed Mother, this conversation gently reframes what fruitfulness truly looks like in the Christian life.

This episode invites you to release comparison, resist performance, and trust the soil God has planted you in. Not all fruit is visible. Not all flowers bloom in public. Yet every act of fidelity, patience, forgiveness, and surrender is seen by the Divine Gardener.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your life is truly bearing fruit — especially in seasons of obscurity, suffering, or waiting — this episode is for you.

In Episode 3 of The Garden of Lent, Sr. Rita and me reflect on two sacred movements of spiritual growth: watering and waiting.

Drawing from Scripture and lived experience, we explore how the Holy Spirit nourishes us quietly, precisely, and lovingly — even in dry, delayed, or painful seasons. This episode speaks directly to women who feel weary, forgotten, or impatient with the pace of their own growth.

In this episode, we reflect on:

- The Holy Spirit as living water

- Why waiting is never wasted in God’s economy

- Trusting God’s timing when growth feels hidden

- Dryness, suffering, and holy delays

- Becoming a well-watered garden in God’s time

If you are waiting for healing, clarity, restoration, or fruit — this conversation is for you.

In Episode 2 of The Garden of Lent, Sr. Rita and myself reflect on the often painful but necessary movements of pruning and weeding in our spiritual lives. Lent invites us to examine what God may be gently removing — habits, attachments, mindsets, or fears — not to harm us, but to make room for deeper fruitfulness. This conversation speaks tenderly to women navigating loss, surrender, and the hidden work God is doing beneath the surface.

In this episode, we explore:

- Why God prunes what He loves

- The difference between discipline and punishment

- Letting go of what chokes spiritual growth

- Trusting God in seasons of loss and refinement

If you’ve ever wondered why certain things had to be cut away, this episode offers hope, clarity, and compassion.

In the opening episode of this four-part Lenten Podcast series with my dear friend Sr. Rita D'Souza, DLJC Sisters, I invite you to join us into entering The Garden of Lent, where God reveals Himself as the Divine Gardener.

We reflect on how Lent calls us into communion, surrender, and trust — not through perfection, but through presence.This episode gently reframes Lent as a season of invitation rather than obligation, where God lovingly draws us toward growth, healing, and transformation in His time.

In this episode, we reflect on:

• God as our Divine Gardener
• Lent as a journey of communion, not performance
• The invitation to begin again — gently and honestly

Whether you’re just beginning Lent or feeling weary in your faith, this episode sets the foundation for a grace-filled journey inward.

This Lent, step away from striving and return to the place where God walks closely with His creation — tending, restoring, and breathing life with tenderness.In this four-part podcast series, Michelle D’Silva and Sr. Rita D’Souza, DLJC Sisters - guide you through The Garden of Lent — reflecting on pruning, watering, waiting, and fruit-bearing through the gentle lens of God’s love. Created especially with women in mind, this is an invitation to slow down, to be honest about the soil of your heart, and to let yourself be tended.If your soul feels tired, dry, or simply in need of renewal, come join us.------Subscribe to my YouTube to stay updated on this upcoming Lenten series🎧 Also available on Spotify and all major podcast platformsFor more such content and program updates, subscribe to our mailing list at www.michelledsilva.com

Readiness, obedience, selflessness, courage are some strong themes we find in the Acts of the Apostles especially in this Easter season. My guest today is a great example of one who strives to live by these morals even in today’s countercultural world. On this episode, I am joined by Sr. Rita D’Souza who  unpacks some treasured memories from her mission trip to Tanzania. Listen in as she shares on how to be open to the leading of the Holy Spirit in response to the call of bringing God’s love to whoever we meet, wherever we go.

The feelings surrounding Father’s Day are varied. For many it may stimulate gratitude and honor, yet for many others this day is perhaps more complicated filled with feelings of anxiousness and fear. Regardless of the successes and failures of our earthly fathers, this episode directs us to the source of everlasting and perfect love – God the Father.

‘Nothing in our life is wasted.’ This may sound too unreal, but the story of our guest on this episode is a rich testimony to the goodness of God – of the One who brings purpose out of our pain, creates beauty from our ashes and uses even our mistakes to change the world.

Join me as I chat with the beautiful Arlene Theknath as she shares some very personal spaces of her heart. Through her story we discover not only the reality of brokenness that exists this side of eternity but also the reality of Hope, found in the person of Jesus Christ - our Saviour, our Redeemer and the God who makes all things new and beautiful.

If you're wondering whether it’s possible for a woman to be a lover of Jesus, family and career combined, then this episode is gonna prove to you just that! Founder and owner of her own sustainable business, Anthea Fransman from Cape Town, South Africa joins us on this episode to share about her journey of faith and what it means to be a Christian influence at the workplace.

Consecrated life, Vocation, Mission, Charisms, Evangelization… we’re talking about all of this and a whole lot more on this two-part series with Sr. Rita D’Souza. If you have been discerning a call to religious life for yourself or your loved ones, tune into this podcast episode as Sr. Rita draws from her own vocation journey, clearing out common misconceptions and offering some great insights, while reflecting through the teachings of the Catholic faith.