Why didn’t the United Nations prevent the war in Ukraine? Isn’t it supposed to keep the peace?
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by Jim Claffey | June 24, 2021 | Formation, Vincentian Family at the U.N. | 0 Comments
Learning about the SDGs and understanding their significance is an important first step as together, creatively, we search for the most effective ways to advocate for these aspects of social justice.
by Pat Griffin, CM | June 23, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
All of us have probably seen a representation of that statue that sits on the desk of Pope Francis—the sleeping Joseph.
by John Freund, CM | June 23, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
Whose story are you most aware of? Can you recognize the interconnection of all stories? Do Vincentians have a special vocation as storytellers?
by Ross Dizon | June 22, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
by Jim Claffey | May 19, 2022 | Conflict in Ukraine, Formation, Reflections
Why didn’t the United Nations prevent the war in Ukraine? Isn’t it supposed to keep the peace?
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 18, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
Years ago, walking along a crowded beach, I came upon a group of people gathered around a crying, screaming child.
by John Freund, CM | May 18, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
Calls for social change are quickly politicized …therefore quickly colored red or blue, rarely purple. I wonder how St. Vincent would be colored?
by Fr. Binoy Puthusery, C.M. | Mar 5, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Once again we are in the season of Lent. The Gospel passage for the first Sunday of Lent always invites us to reflect about the Temptation of Jesus. Soon after Jesus’s baptism and descent of the Holy Spirit upon him Jesus was tempted by the devil. Jesus is entrusted...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 5, 2017 | Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
The approach to poverty in American politics generally—and in public child welfare specifically—has always been influenced by the widespread understanding of poverty as primarily a moral and personal failing, rather than a structural issue. Jeremy Kohomban & David...
by John Freund, CM | Mar 4, 2017 | Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
This is the third of a series of formation packages meant for individual or group study based upon “The Prophetic Dimension of the Vincentian Charism in light of the Social Doctrine of the Church” by Sr. María Pilar López. This section is the longest of the article....
by Benito Martínez, C.M. | Mar 3, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
"Monsieur, Louise de Marillac, widow of Monsieur Le Gras, secretary to the Queen, Mother of the King, very humbly supplicates Monsieur des Roches, Rector of Notre-Dame de Paris, informing him that the sight of the great number of poor in the Saint-Denis district leads...
by Famvin Media Resources | Mar 3, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
During Lent we orient ourselves toward Jerusalem/Calvary, where we’ll follow Jesus through the last week of his life. This Slideshare, based on one of the Lenten letters of Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M., invites each of us to ponder our own life and death. [slideshare...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 2, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Our friend and "Vincentian of Wherever," Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at National Catholic Reporter. I wonder how the country might change if we Christians doubled down on our Lenten observance this year — not just as individuals focusing on our own spiritual...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 2, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
We're all looking to refresh our Lenten practices. As Family with a deep devotion to the Blessed Mother, why not walk the 40 days with Mary? Kathleen Beckmann writes: Mary enriches our spiritual journey always. Perhaps we can consider living the Lenten season with...
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 1, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Talk, Speech, Deed (1 Cor 2: 1-5) In one of the many commentaries on the quality of the rhetoric in the recent campaign, I came across a distinction I had never thought of – the difference between talk and speech. Talk, whatever comes to you on the spot, or from off...
by Ross Dizon | Feb 28, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is God-Man. He himself unmasks the deceit in the devil’s tempting suggestion: it is either God or man. From the perspective of our faith in the Word made flesh, we cannot but reject such tempting suggestion. It is not true that one must choose either God or...