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A Vincentian Minute: Vincentian Women 06

by Famvin Media Resources | August 18, 2024 | Formation | 0 Comments

Fr. Rooney continues his series on “Vincentian Women.” This week: Catherine Harkins.

It Is Better to Do Little than to Do Nothing • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | August 17, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Representatives of the people, Do not say that you lack inspiration. [...] We do not ignore the obstacles or the rivalries, nor the imperfections that stop each project and that perpetuate the debates. But we have never seen that great powers were instituted by easy...

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Notes On the Assumption of Mary

by Famvin Media Resources | August 16, 2024 | Formation | 0 Comments

“In a sweeping reflection on the feast of the Assumption in 1813, she traced the special blessings Mary received through the stages of motherhood…”

Frogs, Canaries and Pope Francis

by John Freund, CM | August 16, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

We have often heard the stories of the lessons we can learn from frogs and canaries. Now they can help us understand why Pope Francis invited us to join a month-long celebration with the world’s 2.2 billion Christians.

Synodality: A Shared Path with the Poor at the Heart of the Church #famvin2024

by .famvin | August 15, 2024 | Famvin 2024, Formation | 0 Comments

The article entitled “The Poor in a Synodal Church” by Juan Pablo García Maestro, OSST, discusses the importance of synodality in the Church and how it should focus especially on the poor.

The Pope Video • In the Service of Peace

by Elizabeth Astridge | Nov 10, 2018 | Church, Formation, Reflections

This month, the Pope asks us to pray together that the language of love and dialogue may always prevail over the language of conflict. Pope Francis – November 2018 We all want peace. It is desired above all by...

Remembering the Vincentian Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

by Famvin Media Resources | Nov 9, 2018 | Formation

Every November 6, the Church commemorates the saints martyred in the anti-clerical violence that took place during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). A number of them were from the Vincentian Family.

What I Learned From a Funeral Homily

by John Freund, CM | Nov 9, 2018 | Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Vincentian Family

When God has other ideas do we follow them?

A Canadian View: Crime and Us

by Jim Paddon | Nov 8, 2018 | Formation, Reflections

I have often wondered why our prison system in Canada is called Corrections Canada when there seems to be little evidence of trying to re-habilitate prisoners while they serve their sentence. It would be too simple to compare our system with that of the USA where the...

Testifying

by Tom McKenna, CM | Nov 7, 2018 | Formation, Reflections

Testifying (Luke 9:1-2) Reading Luke’s account of the disciples being sent out, I put myself in the shoes of one of those 70 individuals directed to go forth and proclaim the Good News that in Jesus, God’s forgiving compassion is drawing near. How would I feel...

Everyone Knows How to Listen! … Really?

by John Freund, CM | Nov 7, 2018 | Formation, Reflections

The task of listeners is not to impose their ideas on the young. It is to help the young see the presence of the Spirit in their hearts and lives.

Surrender Freely, Joyfully, Holding Back Nothing

by Ross Dizon | Nov 6, 2018 | Formation, Reflections

Trusting in his Father, Jesus musters the courage to surrender for us everything he has and all that he is. To belong to him and to his kingdom entails such trusting surrender. Jesus praises the intelligence of the scribe who has asked, “Which is the first of all the...