My theme for this Lenten reflection centers on reconciliation, peace, and humility, which I chose after insights I gained in pastoral visits I made to apostolates of the Daughters of Charity in South Korea, Nagasaki, Japan, and Mauritania and Tunisia, Africa.
John Freund, CM
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XT3 2015 interactive Lenten calendar
An interactive Lent Calendar 2015, featuring Indigenous artwork from Richard Campbell as well as images of our Catholic faith through the eyes of Indigenous Australians.
Lenten choices ala Pope Francis
Lent that a call for conversion or “change your way of thing” as we stand before two visions of Church
Why Tuesday? – Easter People – Lent Begins with Ashes – Celebrate Family
Why pray and fast on Tuesday? It was a challenge to me as a Vincentian to do more than serve in SSVP and feel good about doing it.
How do you Sisters do it!
When one looks at what dedicated women religious have done in health care, educationand in general, going to the peripheries” the question naturally arises. So just how do sisters keep writing “new chapters” in their lives?
Busted Halo – Go into the Desert for Lent
During this season of Lent, you are invited into the desert: a quiet place, with less of us and more of God.
Marked with Ashes – Fr. Pat Griffin, CM
Unfailingly on this day, some people find a disconnect between the Gospel reading and the marking of our foreheads with ashes.
Pope – Lent as a time to combat our growing global indifference
Pope – Lent as a time to combat our growing global indifference to our brothers and sisters
Vincentian Family in Ukraine (3) – Congregation of the Mission
Fr. Waldemar Rakocy,PhD, C.M. of the Polish Province focused on St Catherine Labouré and on the Miraculous Medal that Blessed Virgin Mary had ordered to have engraved
The False Assumption: Everyone Wants to End Poverty
The debate about income inequality and poverty in America is generally carried out with the underlying assumption that everyone wants to end poverty, and there are well-meaning though different approaches to doing so. But what if that’s not true?