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Lenten Video Series, Day 40: Alive Again
In the modern age, it is so easy to become wrapped up in a virtual social world, sliding into sin and temptation. Peter Land tells us that sacrificing this world, even if it seems significant, is nothing in comparison to the life that you will gain in return.
Lenten Video Series, Day 39: Walk By Faith
Pat Gillen had a transformative experience in his jail cell. He realized that he was given a chance to make things right.
Lenten Video Series, Day 38: Living Saints
Success is not measured in man’s terms, but in God’s terms.
Shedding Light on the Relationship of Charity and Justice
I'm writing this on Candlemas, a feast of Light. St. Vincent once said, "There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can."[To François du Coudray, In Toul, 17 June 1640] What did he mean? Let's shed a...
The Globalization of Charity • A Video from Fr. Tomaz Mavrič
In a new series of three videos, Fr. Tomaz Mavrič CM invites us to continue to deepen the meaning of the Vincentian charism, of which we celebrate its 400th anniversary during this year 2017. Let us recall that, in the first series of videos published in the month of...
Discovering Opportunities for Systemic Change
How did Vincent discover opportunities that turned to systemic change?
Singing on Social: A Discernment Reflection
In a new video to aid in religious discernment, Daughters of Charity Liz Sjoberg and Brenda Fritz make music together. It's a beautiful piece. https://youtu.be/MSzJDiBTz1Q
Zeal that Is Unflagging, Consuming and Consummating
Jesus, like his Father, is the source and summit of all righteousness. He fulfills the law and the prophets. And his zeal proves him in this regard. First, his zeal for God and for the law and the prophets consumes Jesus. This zeal shows, of course, in his cleansing...
Jesus is Knocking – Open the Door
Jesus is Knocking - Open the Door - Beautifully Ordinary - Walking in Mystery Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast Jesus is Knocking Jesus knocks at the door of our hearts and eagerly desires to dine with us at the sacrificial meal we call the Eucharist. He wishes to...
Consecration to Charity: The Novelty of the Vincentian Charism
1. Moment of Understanding: Four centuries separate us from the events that gave life to the Vincentian Charism. A room with a dying old man who confesses, a pulpit in which a sermon is preached, an abandoned parish in which his new priest cares for a needy family, a...
Feast of Blessed Rosalie Rendu, D.C.
February 7 is the feast day of Blessed Rosalie Rendu, D.C., whose humble example and message continue to reverberate in the minds and hearts of the Vincentian Family today.
Going Corporate and Volunteering: Vincentians of Wherever
Going corporate and volunteering: they are not mutually exclusive! Corporate America gets a pretty bad rap. Images of stifling your personality and will to live in a cubicle prevail and are especially repulsive to the full-time volunteer. And while I won’t deny that...