John Freund, CM
Author
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What is the Most Important Room In the World?
What is the most important room in the history of the world… and our lives? The Oval Office, Buckingham Palace? … Would you believe a simple “upper room” in Jerusalem! Why? Because in that room on the day we call Pentecost, the most powerful movement in history was...
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The Grasshopper Theory of Poverty and Change
A simple story that describes what it is like to be poor.
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Bl. Rosalie Rendu DC During Waves Of Pandemic
What gave her the strength to minister through three waves of a pandemic?
![COVID19 – Insights for Vincentians](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2020/05/vincent-blesses-his-works-featured.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
COVID19 – Insights for Vincentians
Mindwalk is a vehicle for contact, inspiration, mutual support. In short, a place of mutual encounter where people share their experience, learn from one another and inspired in their following of Christ the evangelizer of the Poor.
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Vincent’s Secret Sauce for Change
If Vincent had a secret sauce what might be the main ingredient?
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Lamps Lit
What enabled Vincent to keep his lamps lit in the face of trgedy? What can we learn from him?
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Think Like a Mother
There’s a simple and powerful way to confront the world’s most pressing crises, says women’s rights activist Yifat Susskind in a Ted Talk – think like a mother!
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Vincentian Solidarity Against COVID-19
Vincentian solidarity against COVID-19: 13 Houses Campaign and Coronavirus The "13 Houses" Campaign is expanding due to COVID-19 to support the poorest of the poor and the homeless. All monies raised by the Famvin Homeless Alliance through Depaul International will be...
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Identity Politics In the Early Church
We often read Acts 6 with a focus on the institution of the diaconate without realizing that the underlying problem was one of race, class, etc. Let’s read Acts 6 as a solution to the identity politics in the early church.
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Ordinary People Serving From the Midst of Our Lives
Vincent would remind us today that we walk in that tradition today as ordinary people bringing Good News in the midst of our daily lives.