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Lynn L’Heureux reflects

By on May 6, 2013 in Spirituality · Comments { 0 }

Being Open – Hear the Shepherd’s Call – Getting your feet wet – Mary A Mother’s love. Dear Vincentian Family:  My prayer for you this week is for patience, understanding and giving up the ugly past.  It is good to keep the wonderful things and memories, especially of loved ones.  What we have to do [...]

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Vincent learns from a heretic

By on January 15, 2013 in Spirituality · Comments { 1 }

Rather than simply refuting a Protestant who was attacking the Church Vincent hears the truth of his charge and grows. (Frederic Ozanam had a similar experience.) The following excerpt from an insightful article by Santiago Barquín, CM,  might well lead us to ask today how open are we to hearing the truth from those who [...]

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Before taking rights of poor people, spend time with them.

By on July 28, 2012 in Poverty - Strategies · Comments { 0 }

A Minnesota advocate for the poor writes, “Before taking rights away from poor people, spend some time with them… their stories make a broader point: While many poor folks do their best maintain a connection to mainstream society, many members of mainstream society do their best to not connect with the poor. They do their [...]

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The Listening Disciple (JMV)

By on November 2, 2010 in Vincentian Family News · Comments { 0 }

The Listening (JMV) Disciple : 1) listening in Luke’s gospel; 2) some echoes of the theme in the spirituality of St. Vincent and St. Louise; 3) some ramifications today. Found on the English JMV site (Click on pull down menu Formation at the upper left of the page) Related FAMVIN Posts:Lynn L’Heureux reflectsVincentian Marian Youth [...]

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