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Lent: Preparing to Celebrate Easter
In this Coffee Break, Fr. Bob Gielow, CM, talks about some reasons to “celebrate”, and offers some practical suggestions for Lent.
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This Lent – Where’re Ya Going?
At the beginning of Lent, we have an opportunity to think about where we are heading on the journey of our life. In his Lenten letter, Pope Francis reminds us that Lent is a journey to Easter.
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A Canadian View: The Preferential Option for the Poor, Part Four
Part Four: In recent years there has been considerable discussion and at times some confusion over the topics of The preferential option for the poor, systemic change and our Vincentian charism.
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Lenten Video Series: Day 2, Prayer is a Pilgrimage
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 2: Prayer is a Pilgrimage.
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Cynthia Griffith Tells It Like It Is!
245,999 Evictions (in only 5 states) Have Been Filed During the Pandemic, Despite the Moratorium
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Lenten Video Series: Day 1, Welcome
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 1: Welcome.
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A Vincentian View: Dreamers
Joseph, Vincent and Louise, Francis, and many others invite us to think about what is possible as we open our eyes to God’s grace for a different and better world.
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Learning From a Vincentian Nobel Prize Nominee
A Vincentian priest has made it his life’s work to “go out to the margins” of society and try to restore dignity to the “living scraps” of a “throwaway culture”. Pedro Opeka CM, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize… again.
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Moments of Trial and Fall, Triumph and Grace
Jesus is the Good News for all the moments of joy, light, sorrow and glory. Are we his followers such Good News? Matthew’s account of the temptation of Jesus has eleven verses; Luke’s, thirteen. But there are just two in Mark's. The two show that Jesus spends...
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Christ’s Broken Body Today
“How beautiful it is to see poor people if we consider them in God and with the esteem in which Jesus Christ held them!” – St. Vincent