Formation
Lenten Video Series: Day 25, Path to God’s Grace
by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | March 17, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 25: Path to God’s Grace.
A Vincentian View: The Grace of Graces
by Pat Griffin, CM | March 17, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
“We need only ask Saint Joseph for the grace of graces: our conversion” (PC p. 9).
How Could This Happen?
by John Freund, CM | March 17, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
“All God’s people carry within themselves the same potencies that energized the early Christian movement…”
Lenten Video Series: Day 24, Sharing Prayer with Patients
by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | March 16, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 24: Sharing Prayer with Patients.
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Prayers and Changes for Good
by Ross Dizon | Mar 8, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
Christ is always before the Father in prayer. And it is while he prays that the appearance of his face changes and...
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Vincentian Prayer Images: One of the Great Saints of History XXIII
by John Freund, CM | Mar 8, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
One of the reasons for Saint Vincent de Paul to be considered a key figure in the history of the holiness of the Church is his style of living his vocation. Each week we will present an example.
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Lenten Video Series, Day 5: Unconditional
by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | Mar 7, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
Janet Creeden’s story is one of trial and tragedy, and yet, she was able to put her fate into God’s hands.
How Much Can We Learn from Vincent to Make a Difference Today?
by John Freund, CM | Oct 1, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Last January J. Patrick Murphy, CM presented me with a pre-publication copy of a little book he had just completed - "Mr. Vincent" - which you can download here. He wrote "My purpose here is to show in a few pages how much Vincent accomplished and how much we can...
Three Takes on Being a Mystic: #3
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 30, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Yesterday we examined the second of "three takes" on the idea of Vincent as a "mystic of charity." Now it's time to look at the third. Don't have the letter at hand? Click here for lots of versions, or click the image that follows for the recently published...
Evangelized By Those Who Are Poor
by Famvin Media Resources | Sep 30, 2016 | Formation
What is revealed to me through the lives of those living in poverty? Do I allow those who are poor to evangelize me? In this presentation we examine the saving power of those who live in poverty-– how our encounters with them and the example of their lives can evangelize us.
Three Takes on Being a Mystic: #2
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 29, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Yesterday we examined the first of "three takes" on the idea of Vincent as a "mystic of charity." Today we'll look at the second. Don't have the letter at hand? Click here for lots of versions, or click the image that follows for the recently published multi-language...
Welcome to the World of “Both/And”: A Word for Leaders #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 29, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation
Many have said that being Catholic means to adopt a position of "both/and": grace and nature, present and future, corporal and spiritual. It shouldn't be news to Vincentians. Often, the organizational demands placed upon leaders -- and that includes Vincentian leaders...
Three Takes on Being a Mystic: #1
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 28, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
In his letter to the Vincentian Family for St. Vincent's Feast, successor to St. Vincent Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, C.M., invited three Vincentians to explore three different views -- three takes -- on the idea of Vincent as a "mystic of charity." Fr. Mavrič and .famvin have...
Looking Out Through New Eyes
by Tom McKenna, CM | Sep 28, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Looking Out Through New Eyes (Philemon 9-10, 12-17) Some weeks ago, Mother Teresa was raised to the status of a canonized Saint. And though there are many aspects of her life and spirituality to admire and try to imitate, I pick up on one that comes through in this...
The Three Verbs of Systemic Change
by John Freund, CM | Sep 28, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
What are the verbs of Systemic Change? Father Robert Maloney, C.M., former Superior General writes: Systematize, institutionalize and evaluate the project and its procedures, describing measurable indicators and results. In this strategy, all three verbs are...
Vision that Evangelizes and Saves
by Ross Dizon | Sep 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
We discover in Jesus the vision without which we perish demoralized. It is hard even for those who are faithful to keep faith alive and to take as norm the vision of the kingdom of God and his righteousness. As in Habakkuk’s case, what drives them to question faith...