Formation

Are You a Vincentian Cricket?

It is only in my later years that I have realized how he has influenced the Church of today!

Widow who Offers All She Has to Live on

Jesus wholly offers himself to take away our sins.  In this sacrifice shares the widow who gives all she has to live on. In the Bible, as we know, to be a widow, orphan or a foreigner means, in general, to be poor.  That is why the generosity of the widow of Zarephath...

Vincentian Prayer Images: One of the Great Saints of History V

Vincent de Paul would suffer all his life from the obsession to put the entire Church at the service of the poor.

Communal Spirit

What is the goal of a Vincentian? To meet God in the service of those who need it most. But being a Vincentian is a community vocation.

Meal of Salvation, Meal of Judgment

Food for All that Gives Life and Saves

Already at birth, Jesus offers himself as the food that gives life and saves.  Unless we eat his flesh and drink his blood, we have no life within us. Mary does not lay her child in a crib.  Rather, she lays him, wrapped in swaddling clothes, in a manger, which holds...

Mamas Talk Advent: Waiting, Community

Mamas Talk Advent: Waiting, Community

I'll never forget the moment I first laid eyes on my niece, Lucy. I'd been restlessly following the text-message updates all day, and now I was standing before a few-hours-old baby. I had never seen anything more perfect. What a miracle she was — tiny, exquisitely...

A Vincentian View: Light in the Night

A Vincentian View: Light in the Night

Vincentian View: Light in the Night “Silent Night, Holy Night.”  Like many of you, I have heard those words sung numerous times in the past weeks.  An odd thought flitted through my mind during one of these recent hearings: “How do we know that Jesus was born at...