Formation
What Wise People are in your Life?
by John Freund, CM | June 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
A truly wise person helps you to see, and helps you step back to get perspective.
Contemplation: To Discern, Not to Decide
by Tim Williams | June 18, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
Calm in the Middle of the Storm
by Ross Dizon | June 18, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
By trusting in the Lord Jesus we can stay calm even when evil seems to triumph.
Vincentian Places 14 – Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune
by Famvin Media Resources | June 18, 2024 | Formation | 0 Comments
The Hotel-Dieu was built in the 15th century as a hospital. This is typical of the hospitals that the church operated in the time of St. Vincent de Paul.
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Catholic Families: Are they Mirrors of God’s Love?
by John Freund, CM | Jul 5, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
This Vincentian Mindwalk started out as a virtual journey to Rome for the 10th World Meeting of Families in 2022. To...
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Contemplation: To Wait for God’s Own Time
by Tim Williams | Jul 4, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org The church calls the laity to “fulfill their prophetic mission by...
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A Vincentian View: An Art Gallery
by Pat Griffin, CM | Jul 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
I love to teach about the Psalms. When I do, the first image that I offer to suggest the breadth and depth of these biblical poems/songs is an Art Gallery.
Forming a community that shows the Lord’s love for all
by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 5, 2024 | Formation
A presentation about Vincentian Spirituality.
How Mary Experienced Her Son’s Resurrection
by John Freund, CM | Apr 5, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
“How was your Easter?” How many times have you said that recently? Usually, it leads to a lively conversation about family gatherings, etc.
John 3:16 – Read It!
by Tom McKenna, CM | Apr 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
If you’ve watched any sports events over the last decades, you’ve seen banners held high, calling attention to a famous passage in John’s Gospel.
Easter People in a Good Friday/Holy Saturday World?
by John Freund, CM | Apr 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Some 60 years ago, I remember being struck by a question still relevant today. A great theologian, Johannes Hoffinger, asked: “if we are Easter People, why do we so often look like people in need of an aspirin?”
Through the Darkness to Easter Light with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
by Lisa Lickona | Apr 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
The example of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton shows us how to yield our lives to Christ, the Crucified One, that we might live.
Contemplation: Seeking His Will Together – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection
by Tim Williams | Apr 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org “Life,” the old saying goes, “is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” There is a deeper truth captured in this witticism, one that St. Vincent often repeated. It is not that we should make no plans and...
Read the Signs of Jesus in Our Midst
by Ross Dizon | Apr 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. To believe in him means to know how to read, to grasp, his many signs in our midst. We read, as we come to the end of today’s gospel, “Jesus did many other signs.” So then, we can take it that his rising from the dead is one of...
Vincentian Places 01 – Ranquine
by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 2, 2024 | Formation
Vincent de Paul was born on April 24, 1581, at Ranquine, a hamlet near the village of Pouy, in the southwest of France.
The Two Crosses
by Salvatrice Murphy, DC | Apr 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
On the day I became a sister there was an Incorporation Ceremony before friends, family, and a whole host of Daughters of Charity. I wore my full habit for the first time, and during Mass I had placed around my neck a cross marked with SV (for St. Vincent); it is the...