Formation

A Vincentian View: Embracing the Truth

This past weekend contained the “moving-in” days at St. John’s. 

Are You Looking Up… or Around You?

A late 19th-century artist, James Tissot,  graphically posed a question for us today. In his depiction of the Ascension, he asks, “Why do you stand looking up into heaven? (Act 1:11)

The Passion of Jesus and the Passion of Jean Gabriel Perboyre

In 1889, the Brief of Beatification of Jean Gabriel Perboyre (Feast Day: September 11) stated, “Divine Goodness reserved for Jean Gabriel a truly celestial consolation and an honor without equal: the fact that the Passion which he underwent had a particular...

Followers of Jesus, Thinking, Wise

Jesus embodies what he teaches on being thoughtful and purposeful.  He asks all his followers to be so, and thus the success of the cross will be theirs. Great crowds go with Jesus on the way to Jerusalem (see Lk 9, 51; 13, 22).  He turns and tells them that to be his...
Boundaries That Needs Opening

Boundaries That Needs Opening

Jesus is the salvation that God has prepared in the sight of all peoples. He opens boundaries: between God and human beings; between us and others. The Word has become flesh through the motherhood of Mary. And being thus uniquely God and man, Jesus becomes the one...

FAMVIN

FREE
VIEW