John Freund, CM
Author
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent VII
St. Vincent told the Daughters of Charity: “You see, Sisters, even though we don’t see God, faith teaches us that His holy presence is everywhere…”
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Can You Put Yourself In This Picture?
I am not an Ethiopian at the beginning of a thousand-mile journey. Actually, I am on a lifelong journey of trying to “put on the mind of Christ,” to see things as Jesus, the stranger in my life, sees them.
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Systemic Change Calls For Paying Attention
There are things we see but don’t pay attention to.
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent VI
St. Vincent told the Daughters of Charity: “When you’ve finished dressing and have made your bed, you’ll begin your mental prayer.”
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What Can We Learn From Anniversaries?
Whatever the anniversary, it gives us a chance to look back over the years since the event we’re marking, and reflect on how it has shaped us.
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Systemic Change – What My Mother Taught Me
When will we really buy into the systemic change of thinking Jesus came to show us?
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent V
St. Vincent told the Daughters of Charity: “The first thing you should do when you’ve risen and have begun to dress is to kneel down and adore God.”
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Reacting to Different Ways of Thinking
Looking at Jesus through the eyes of a Jewish person or a Gentile.
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Acts of the Apostles, Systemic Change and Polarization
Over the next several weeks the liturgy, drawing from the Acts of the Apostles, presents selected stories of ordinary people who coped with severe polarization some 2,000 years ago.
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent IV
St. Vincent told the Daughters of Charity: “Saint Paul tells you how much you lose when the first thoughts of your mind are filled with anything other than God.”