Father Rooney extends the Sunday Scriptures for Vincentians in an Easter Journey. This week: “Love one another as I have loved you”… the charity of Christ urges us.

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Father Rooney extends the Sunday Scriptures for Vincentians in an Easter Journey. This week: “Love one another as I have loved you”… the charity of Christ urges us.
Presentation on the life of St. Joan Antida Thouret.
After Ozanam’s wife experienced her first miscarriage, Ozanam took refuge in the St. Germain L’Auxerrois church to pray.
Father Rooney extends the Sunday Scriptures for Vincentians in an Easter Journey. This week: the expansiveness of the Gospel going to all nations… and two things that that means for Vincentians.
Louise de Marillac was a woman of many gifts. She learned to wait patiently to discover God’s will and then she did it.
From Papua New Guinea, Fr. Neil Lam, CM reminds us that while preaching the Gospel is his mission, it means little if he cannot also feed his people and quench their thirst.
Having become a professor at the Sorbonne, Frederic Ozanam would live with Amélie (his wife) and later Marie (their daughter) on rue de Grenelle, rue Garancière, and rue de Fleurus, all located in the same general neighborhood of Paris.
Father Rooney extends the Sunday Scriptures for Vincentians in an Easter Journey. This week: Jesus asks, “Will you love me?”… in the person of the poor.
Perhaps we have not been fully aware of the size and value of that legacy she has left us.
St. Louise de Marillac prayed for “gentle power,” the ability to see Christ in all people and to use an infinite love for them to fulfill their needs.