Three people continue to contemplate the experience of Lenten prayer.
Formation
Solidarity – in Life, Death, and New Life (Mark 14:1-15:47)
by Tom McKenna, CM | April 17, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
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
by John Freund, CM | April 17, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
’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
by Tim Williams | April 16, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah, Good Shepherd
by Ross Dizon | April 16, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Lenten Conferences of Fr. Lacordaire No. 9
by .famvin | Feb 29, 2024 | Formation
Lenten Series of reflections taken from the Conferences of the Rev. Lacordaire.
A Vincentian View: The Transfiguration – Listen
by Pat Griffin, CM | Feb 28, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
For the last years, I do not think that I have meditated on any theme more often that listening. Most recently, the line that ends the story of the Transfiguration has attracted me.
Lastly… Simplicity! • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Oct 28, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
"I’m well aware that people think of simplicity in general as truth or purity of intention: truth, because it sees that our thoughts conform to the words and other signs by which we express them; purity of intention, because it makes all our acts of virtue tend...
Anecdotes of the Vincentian Family: Almsgiving that Humiliates or Honors
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 28, 2023 | Formation
Frédéric thought that aid, almsgiving, is humiliating when only material needs are met, "causing shame, and doing what anyone does even with animals." He says it's humiliating because it can not be reciprocated, they are favors that the other has not the slightest...
Establishment of the Federation of the Sisters of Charity (October 27, 1947)
by Famvin Media Resources | Oct 27, 2023 | Formation, News, Sisters of Charity
October 27 is the anniversary of the Establishment of the Federation of the Sisters of Charity in 1947. We would like to highlight an online collaborative exhibit, created by the Federation congregations.
NATO As No Action – Talk Only
by John Freund, CM | Oct 27, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
In this Mindwalk, I would like to explore this alternate definition of the acronym usually associated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Video – The Saint and the Duchess: Collaboration at the Heart of Vincentian Heritage
by .famvin | Oct 26, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Bronwen McShea, scholar of 17th century religious and political history, presents “The Saint and the Duchess: Collaboration at the Heart of Vincentian Heritage.”
A Vincentian View: Shalom
by Pat Griffin, CM | Oct 25, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Have you been praying for peace in these days? I hope so. I certainly have. As I do so, I find myself reflecting on the meaning of the word “peace” and what it means for the Christian.
Shocking document bishops signed in the Catacombs 60 years ago
by John Freund, CM | Oct 25, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
I did not have any special expectations of Vatican II when I was ordained just months before the Council concluded. Pope St. John XXIII certainly had expectations of Vatican II!
Sweat in Seeking the Other’s Good
by Ross Dizon | Oct 24, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus shows us how to love in truth God and our neighbor. Out of love for them, he has to sweat blood and give himself wholly. To strive and to sweat. This is what love for God asks of us who are of the Vincentian Family (SV.EN XI:32). That is to say, it is not...
Vincentian Prayer Images – Art By Vincentians 27
by Famvin Media Resources | Oct 24, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Share your thoughts on a weekly image of artwork made by members of the Vincentian Family.