Formation

A Closer Walk (John 2:13-25)

by Tom McKenna, CM | March 20, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Early in St. John’s gospel, we see Jesus resolutely striding into the outer courtyard of the Jerusalem Temple, a space bordering on what the Jewish people acknowledged to be God’s own Dwelling place.

“Real Families”

by John Freund, CM | March 20, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

In my active years of helping families, I often heard two seemingly contradictory thoughts about parents in “real families.”

Lenten Conferences of Fr. Lacordaire No. 23

by .famvin | March 20, 2024 | Formation | 0 Comments

Lenten Series of reflections taken from the Conferences of the Rev. Lacordaire.

Contemplation: A Friend of a Friend – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection

by Tim Williams | March 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments

This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Have you ever had a friend with very different interests than your own? Maybe he was a big baseball fan, and you just didn’t follow that sport, or he had a great appreciation for art, but you couldn’t stand museums. How did...

Contemplation: To You Alone – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection

by Tim Williams | Apr 16, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul

This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org To offer the benefit of the doubt is to assume the best of somebody even...

Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah, Good Shepherd

by Ross Dizon | Apr 16, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus is Ruler and Savior, Lord and Messiah. Yet he lords over no one; he serves and is the Good Shepherd who gives...

Vincentian Places 03 – Dax

by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 16, 2024 | Formation

Vincent’s father sent him to Dax for four years, for secondary studies to be able to secure an ecclesiastical benefice.

Knowing How To Ask In Order To Learn How To Give • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent

by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Nov 11, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

"Savior of our souls, these are Your teachings we are embracing, and the devil is trying to make us abandon them. My Savior, it's to Your advantage for us to be the victors, since we are fighting against Your enemy. Come to our aid. We protest that we'll take up arms...

Anecdotes of the Vincentian Family: Ozanam and Money from Protestants

by Javier F. Chento | Nov 11, 2023 | Formation

Frederic Ozanam was a staunch defender of the faith and the Catholic Church; but if some Protestants made him intermediary in the service of the poor, he was their grateful servant. Once, a young Protestant pastor, having gathered an amount of money among his...

St. Agostina Pietrantoni: seeing God in the suffering faces of the sick

by Famvin Media Resources | Nov 10, 2023 | Formation

Learn about the life of St. Agostina Pietrantoni, Sister of Charity of St. Jeanne Antida Thouret and patron saint of nurses, whose feast day is November 13.

Street-level Encounters – a Parable

by John Freund, CM | Nov 10, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Do we look people in the eye? We certainly look some people in the eye… especially when we are in a loving relationship with them.

A Vincentian View: Saints and Souls

by Pat Griffin, CM | Nov 8, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Each of the days that introduce the month of November—All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day—brings a different word to my mind.

Changing Our Clocks, Fast-forwards and Do-overs

by John Freund, CM | Nov 8, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Changing Clocks! It is a semi-annual ritual in many parts of the world. I suspect most of us sleep through it.

Fire up Our Whole Selves with Love

by Ross Dizon | Nov 7, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus makes known by words and deeds that we cannot love God without loving our neighbor. We Christians seek to fire up ourselves with love. The Church asks us today to keep watch. For we do not know the day or the hour when the Son of Man will come back. And to keep...