I see some Covid connections with another, more benign virus – the Vincentian Virus. COVID19 is both similar to and very different from the Vincentian Virus.

Many of us wear glasses. Others may need glasses to read. But that’s not the seeing I am asking about. I am asking how many of us see beyond the facts in front of us.

Have you ever watched time-lapse photography of the amazing process of a flower blooming or a moth becoming a butterfly? 

Westminster Abbey began as a Benedictine monastery in 960 AD. The Abbey is rich in history and could tell many stories.

Who are the great geniuses of history? There are certainly many who shaped the daily lives of people of their time … and well beyond.

Most visitors to Vincentian Mindwalk have heard anywhere from hundreds to literally thousands of sermons. Opps, I mean homilies!

We are many decades into the phenomenon of shopping for “gated communities” of like-minded people. So many do not experience that they are welcome.

In all those years, I never dreamed of connecting Catechetical Sunday with the lyrics of the Broadway musical song “Getting to know you.”

On 9/11 we immediately think of the pain and suffering, the injustice of the attacks. This leads to a defensive stance united against our enemies.

If I asked you, I suspect most, without having any further details, would say they would rather be in a banquet setting than a court of law.