Formation
A Vincentian View: Beginning with Luke
During 2025, our attention for the Sunday Gospels of Ordinary Time finds its focus on Luke’s story of Jesus.
After Thanksgiving Day, Where Do All The “Thanks” Go ?
For most, but not for everyone, Thanksgiving is a day with lots of good things to eat, parades and football games to watch, family traditions to be celebrated.
Advent from a Vincentian Perspective, Part 2: Hope in the Incarnation: A God Close to the Poor
In the Incarnation, we discover a God who does not remain distant but chooses to come near, taking on human flesh to dwell among us.
Strengthening Vincentian Collaboration: Reflections and Challenges in the Service to the Poor #famvin2024
Excerpt from an Address of John Darley, at the Vincentian Family gathering in Rome, Italy (January 22 – 24, 2016).
Modeling Virtue
One of the occupational hazards of people who study religion and theology is to equate ideas with the force behind them.
Are All Really Welcome?
We are many decades into the phenomenon of shopping for “gated communities” of like-minded people. So many do not experience that they are welcome.
Contemplation: One Society, One Rule
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org It is probably the case that while most members join the Society in response to a call from the Holy Spirit, they don’t yet fully understand the Society as a vocation. And although we do not take solemn vows like members of...
Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered
Christ on the cross is the last of all and the servant of all. He puts to shame all those with ambitions to be the first and the greatest. Like most of us, the disciples of Jesus, for sure, have their ambitions. After all, they, too, have the right to be better....
La Union-Chrétienne de Saint Chaumond: a Story of Devotion and Faith #famvin2024
The Union-Chrétienne de Saint Chaumond is a women’s institute of consecrated life of pontifical right, founded in 1652 by St. Vincent de Paul and the Venerable Madame de Polallion.
Firewood for the Soul: A Spirit of Solidarity
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
A Vincentian Minute: Vincentian Theological Terms 04
Fr. Rooney continues a series called “Vincentian Theological Terms.” This week: God’s permissive will and suffering.
The Fundamentals of our Faith • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Our century has forgotten to such an extent the Christian language of our parents that it is difficult to speak without involuntarily flattering the passions of bad citizens, and without hurting the timidity of honest people. When we are moved by the advances of...