John Freund, CM
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent III
St. Vincent told the Daughters of Charity: “…Your first thought should be of God: thank Him for having preserved you during the night…”
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Beyond Waving Palm Branches
On Palm Sunday will I be waving the palm branches of my blind spots or holding high the cross of God’s universal love?
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I am doing something new!
For a variety of reasons, we sometimes can not see what is right before our eyes.
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent II
St. Vincent tells the Daughters of Charity the first good thing to think about upon waking up each morning.
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Falling In Love With “Real Families”
It is a shame that most people only hear polarized pundits cherry-picking from a select few paragraphs, or even just footnotes, in what in reality is an inspiring document describing and addressed to the real family of today.
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How Could This Happen?
“All God’s people carry within themselves the same potencies that energized the early Christian movement…”
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent I
St. Vincent told the Daughters of Charity: “So, dear Sisters, let’s see how you should spend the twenty-four hours that make up the day…”
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The Contagion of Christianity
Do others experience God’s love for them mirrored by our lives? Is it any wonder that Jesus speaks of the final judgement in terms of what we do for the unrecognized, bruised and broken Christ in our midst?
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Visit the Imprisoned
Jesus was in prison. How many innocent persons suffer unjust condemnation or maltreatment in the name of justice or expediency?
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Lost Your Identity?
If we lose proof of who we are and the joys and sorrows of our lives, something very precious is gone.