Saints Like Us (Hebrews 12.1)
There’s an instinct to idealize the saints as entirely different from the rest of us, off in another league at some unattainable level of holiness and favor with God.
There’s an instinct to idealize the saints as entirely different from the rest of us, off in another league at some unattainable level of holiness and favor with God.
It is only in my later years that I have realized how he has influenced the Church of today!
Vincent de Paul would suffer all his life from the obsession to put the entire Church at the service of the poor.
What is the goal of a Vincentian? To meet God in the service of those who need it most. But being a Vincentian is a community vocation.