John Freund, CM
Author
![What Can We Learn From Our Roads to Emmaus and Damascus?](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2020/04/emmaus-damascus-featured.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
What Can We Learn From Our Roads to Emmaus and Damascus?
We can learn much from those who wrestled with the upheavals in their lives as recorded in our family album called the Acts of the Apostles.
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Would You Live In a Homeless Shelter In a Pandemic?
I have asked myself the question “What would I do if I were homeless today? What could I do?
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Learning From God’s Model Of Changing History
What can we learn about being chang agents from imitating God’s model of bringing about a change in our ways of thinking?
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Vincentian Prayer Images: God Asking More Than We Can Bear
Elizabeth certainly felt all the losses she was called to bear.
![After the Virus – A Holy Saturday or Easter Sunday Consciousness?](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2020/04/tomb-locked-church-featured.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
After the Virus – A Holy Saturday or Easter Sunday Consciousness?
We face a choice. Will we think of ourselves as living in a Holy Saturday world or an Easter Sunday world?
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Vincentian Prayer Images: With Those Who Grieve
How many can today identify with these words and need the support of our prayers?
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Sheltering In Place When You Don’t Have a Home?
In this time of “sheltering in place” two health care workers share their concerns for people who have no place to shelter in.
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There has got to be a better system!
We must think of the bigger picture beyond and own immediate needs and even beyond first aid measures as important as they are.
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Vincentian Prayer Images: The Front Lines and the Plague
We salute all those who risk their lives on the front lines in our hospitals and clinics!
![St. Vincent Responds to a Bishop During a Plague](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2020/03/vincent-writing-desk-featured.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
St. Vincent Responds to a Bishop During a Plague
How did Vincent respond to a Bishop who asked for his advice in time of a plague?