Each Friday of Lent we will share a different guide to help examine your conscience based on different aspects of our lives as members of the Vincentian Family.
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The Road To Calvary: Lent 2024 With The God Minute
“We invite you to walk with us together along our Road to Calvary these next 40 days.” – Fr. Ron Hoye, C.M.
Mothers – Lessons Mary Learned and Teaches
What do mothers do all day? They do so much! Often mothers can’t remember all the things they do for the family.
Welcome Home Project Provides Safe Housing for Displaced Families
At the end of 2018, The Vincentian Family started to work on the Welcome Home Project to provide safe housing for 32 displaced families in Parramos, Chimaltenango.
A Vincentian View: Lessons from Ozanam
Labor Day, the beginning of the academic year, and the liturgical calendar (September 8) merge in drawing Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam to my mind at the beginning of September.
Remember Where You Were on 9/11?
I don’t think I will ever forget the morning of 9/11/2001. The phone rang. A close friend could barely say “Turn on television… the World Trade Center…” She could not finish the sentence!
Reach by Grace the Unreachable Star
Jesus is not of the world. Nor are his true disciples. They get to reach what we who are humans find hard to reach. There is no doubt that the way Jesus teaches is not the same as others’ way. For he teaches with authority, not as the scribe. Also, there is such a...
Vincentian Prayer Images – Art By Vincentians 21
Share your thoughts on a weekly image of artwork made by members of the Vincentian Family.
Live with a Higher Purpose
There is a beautiful story which tells us about the importance living with a sense of higher purpose in our daily life. Once a man was passing by a construction site. The workers were busy with their different kinds works. He was curious to know what they were doing....
Four Themes in the Spirituality of St. John Gabriel Perboyre
Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M. asks: What does St. John Gabriel Perboyre teach us about living God’s life?
God Reveals His Will to the Little Ones • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"Another thing that recommends simplicity to us in a wonderful way are those words of Our Lord, I confess to you, Father, because you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to little ones (Mt 11:25). I acknowledge this, Father, and...
Anecdotes of the Vincentian Family: The Chest of Drawers of the Poor Family
One New Year's Eve, Frederic Ozanam was telling his wife Amélie about a poor family who had known better days, but were now reduced to such shifts that they had been compelled to pledge a handsome chest of drawers, the last remnant that remained to them of former...
