Formation
Heard any Shocking Statements?
Heard any really “shocking statements” in the last 24 hours?
Contemplation: True Presence
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Vincentians are doers, we are people of action. We love God, as St....
Sent Ones, Men and Women, of Jesus
As the Father sends him, so Jesus sends his disciples. These sent ones carry out what their Teacher tells them to...
Experience, the Mother of Knowledge • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
We are convinced that the science of charitable reforms is not learned in the books or in the tribunes of the public assemblies, but by going up to the hovel of the poor, sitting at their bedside, suffering the cold they suffer. Then, in friendly conversation, we have...
Louise de Marillac: Animator of the Confraternities of Charity
In May 1629, Vincent de Paul made a request of Louise de Marillac. Would she accept going to Montmirail to visit the Confraternities of Charity established in that town and the neighboring villages?
Undervalued Gift
I am finally becoming aware of the gift I have taken for granted all my life. The home we call Planet Earth. I suspect I am not alone in this.
Happiness
The annual World Happiness Report is out. But a lot of people won’t be happy.
Solidarity – in Life, Death, and New Life (Mark 14:1-15:47)
A remark I once overheard: “I don’t mind suffering when nobody knows about it – as long as somebody knows about it!”
Doubting Thomas – the Fact-checker
’Doubting Thomas’ gets bad press. But in today’s post-truth world, full of fake news and disinformation, there is much we can learn from him”, says Rev. Peter Crumpler.
Contemplation: To You Alone – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org To offer the benefit of the doubt is to assume the best of somebody even when you are uncertain of the truth. Is this not what we are called to do in our encounters with the neighbor? Thomas, we are told in John’s gospel,...
Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah, Good Shepherd
Jesus is Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah. Yet he lords over no one; he serves and is the Good Shepherd who gives his life for the sheep. A ruler among Jesus’ own should not at all be like a ruler among the Gentiles. The latter lords it over others. The former, on...
Vincentian Places 03 – Dax
Vincent’s father sent him to Dax for four years, for secondary studies to be able to secure an ecclesiastical benefice.