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A Wide-angle View – Vocations To the Charism

by John Freund, CM | October 30, 2020 | Evangelization, Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 1 Comment

Fr. Mavric invites every member of the Vincentian Family to take one very concrete step; that is, every member is to bring one new candidate to one of the branches of the Vincentian Family.

I Know What the Poor Need and Want!

by John Freund, CM | July 17, 2020 | Evangelization, Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments

To be a missionary is to leave one’s proper world and one’s secure place in the world in order to enter the world of the other; it is to leave one’s place in order to enter the place of the poor and to accompany the poor with the gospel.

Vincentians Then and Now – Dodging Rocks With Immigrants

by John Freund, CM | April 12, 2019 | Evangelization, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments

The first Vincentian priests in the U.S. stood with immigrants dodging the rocks thrown by jeering Know Nothings who opposed them.

Mary’s Digital Home “Liked” By Almost 3 Million People

by John Freund, CM | December 8, 2018 | Evangelization, Formation, Reflections, Social Media, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice | 0 Comments

Do you know the address of the Facebook page that has been “liked” by 2.9 million people?

New Evangelization and the parish – Vincentian perspectives

by John Freund, CM | Jul 25, 2014 | Evangelization

Some thoughts from the article Vincentian “Parishes and the New Evangelization” …. A truly evangelizing parish

Vincentian Family to celebrate New Evangelization

by John Freund, CM | Jul 24, 2014 | Evangelization, Vincentian Family

The leaders of various branches of the Vincentian Family have called for a year to celebrate New Evangelization. In this segment of Formation Friday VinFormation offers some of its relevant resources. Over the coming months it will prepare many more.

Practical Evangelization in the spirit of Vincent

by John Freund, CM | Jul 3, 2014 | Evangelization, International Association of Charities - Ladies of Charity, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

As part of their ongoing preparation to celebrate their 400th anniversary the AIC (Association of International Charities) offers this continuing formation reflection devoted to practical evangelization in the spirit of Vincent.

Church Must Learn Language of Youth

by John Freund, CM | Jul 23, 2011 | Church, Evangelization

Archbishop Rino Fisichella says the Church Must Learn Language of Youth. To evangelize young people, the Church must understand their culture, in which liberty and science are dominant values, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New...

An argument against too cool a church

by John Freund, CM | Jun 29, 2011 | Church, Evangelization

Something to think about... I want a church that includes fussy kids, old liturgy, bad sound, weird congregants and—brace yourself—painfully amateur “special music” now and then. Why? Well, for one thing, when the Gospel story is accompanied by a fog machine and...

How to dialogue with the digital culture

by John Freund, CM | May 7, 2011 | Church, Evangelization

(Zenit.org).- Evangelization in a world of communications technology is the biggest challenge the Vatican is facing today, according to Archbishop Celli, the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. "We should ask ourselves to what degree we...

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