First of all, I would like to thank you for the confidence the executive committee has placed in me by asking me to...

by Lisa Lickona, STL | August 12, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
by Famvin Media Resources | August 12, 2022 | Formation | 0 Comments
St. Vincent had many friends, but two friends stand out: St. Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, and St. Jane Frances de Chantal, co-foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Saint Mary.
by John Freund, CM | August 12, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
What does it mean that Mary is the Queen of Creation?
by Marie A. Copeland | August 11, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
No matter how you arrive at the role of caregiver, whether suddenly or gradually, there is a spiritual component to caregiving.
by Javier F. Chento | Jan 26, 2020 | Formation, Vincentian Family
First of all, I would like to thank you for the confidence the executive committee has placed in me by asking me to...
by Anja Bohnsack | Jan 26, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
When leaving these hills, I knew that I must do more. That I must do better. Because I only held one little hand – but there are millions more reaching out.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 25, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Can you imagine any connection between the critically acclaimed movie “Little Women”, the Foundation of the Vincentian community, and the celebration of Martin Luther King’s life?
by Ross Dizon | Apr 25, 2013 | Reflections
Jesus says aloud what the disciples are sensing, “My children, I will be with you only a little while longer.” He speaks to them tenderly. He wants his last gestures and words etched on their hearts: “I give you a new commandment: love one another; as I have...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 22, 2013 | Reflections
Fifth Sunday of Easter (C), April 28, 2013 - Acts 14:21-27; Rev 21:1-5a; Jn. 13:31-33a, 34-35 God is beauty ever ancient and ever new, confesses St. Augustine. Following this Augustinian example and guided by “God is love,” we can profess that God is love that is...
by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 20, 2013 | Formation
VinFormation offers two new presentations on Blessed Frederic. In the first, Frederic Ozanam: Social Justice Vision + Personal Action, we see how Ozanam defended the Truths of the Faith and assisted the poor in post-Revolutionary France, setting the stage for the Catholic Social Thought of today.
by Ross Dizon | Apr 19, 2013 | Reflections
Fourth Sunday of Easter (C), April 21, 2013 - Acts 13:14, 43-52; Rev. 7:9, 14b-17; Jn. 10:27-30 Part and parcel of our experience are the gray afternoon and the dark night of discouragement and hopelessness, of fear and shame, of failure and humiliation, of hesitation...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 17, 2013 | Reflections
It was winter. Jesus was walking through the portico of Solomon, one of the outdoor galleries surrounding the large esplanade of the Temple. This portico, in particular, was a place frequented by people since it was apparently protected from the wind by a wall. ...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 14, 2013 | Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Vincentian Family
The following presentation on Saint Louise as a spiritual woman has been taken form a freshly translated article of the same title. It focuses on the following four aspects of her spirituality: a woman inspired by the Spirit a woman of prayer and a woman who...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 12, 2013 | Reflections
Third Sunday of Easter (C), April 14, 2013 - Acts 5:27b-32, 40b-41; Rev 5:11-14; Jn 21:1-19 Many qualify as promising Pope Francis’ elevation. I myself have the fond hope that his gestures of simplicity, humility, poverty and love for the poor will stop dead in their...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 11, 2013 | Reflections
Recorded in the epilogue of John’s gospel is an account of the risen Jesus’ meeting with his disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It is written at the same time that Christians are living difficult moments of trial and persecution: some are renouncing their...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 6, 2013 | Reflections
Second Sunday of Easter (C), April 7, 2013 - Acts 5:12-16; Rev 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19; Jn. 20:19-31 Many people then wanted Peter’s shadow at least to fall on them. Now, however, the figure representing those in the U.S., for example, who claim not to have any...