Formation
Laudato Si’s Big Questions
by Owen Smith | December 20, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Laudato Si describes the integral relationship the many crises facing our world share.
Encyclical ‘Fratelli Tutti’: Summary and Commentary (and Part 8)
by René Stockman | December 19, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Bro. René Stockman offers here a short summary of chapter 8 of the Encyclical Letter “Fratelli Tutti”, followed by a more personal reflection.
Setting the Stage (Mark 1:1-8)
by Tom McKenna, CM | December 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
I read an account of a high school boy who had, as the story title put it, “Made it Easier to be Honest.”
Advent Prayers & Spiritual Exercises
by Famvin Media Resources | December 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice | 0 Comments
In 1657, St. Vincent wrote to St. Louise about how “to spend Advent well”.
What Is It like At a Papal Audience?
by John Freund, CM | Dec 10, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
When I was growing up there was a wonderful series on that still new medium … television.
Advent Social Justice Conversations Through the Lens of Charity
by Carol De Angelo, SC | Dec 9, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
As we journey together, I invite us to “see,” seek, and sink our Charity roots this Advent into a deeper appreciation and celebration of…
A Vincentian View: The Holy Name of Jesus
by Pat Griffin, CM | Dec 8, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
From the earliest days of my Catholic education, the good School Sisters of Notre Dame taught my young schoolmates and me to bow our heads when we said the name “Jesus.”
It Grabbed Hold of Me #IamVincent @SJUMission
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 16, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Sometimes that "something" that has grabbed hold of you won't let go. Dennis M. Gallagher writes, These past three and a half years have been one where I’m grateful to feel more immersed within the Vincentian mission and where I now feel part of the SJU community with...
Soaked Through and Through by Sense of God’s Reality
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 16, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
“Soaked Through and Through by Sense of God’s Reality” - Psalm 82 My Father loved and listened to classical music. Looking back on that, it’s a bit surprising because he was from a working class home, never graduated high school, played semi-pro football, and so on....
Courage! Jesus leads us
by Ross Dizon | Mar 15, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Leading fearful disciples, who are also slow to understand, Jesus heads towards Jerusalem to face with courage his painful fate. Courage does not mean not agonizing at the specter of suffering and death. Jesus is in such agony that his sweat becomes “like drops of...
Collaboration is… to dream together
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 14, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Dreaming is not escaping reality. “It is to undermine obvious facts to break their hold on people, to abandon deliberately the paths of obedience, to project oneself into a reality that we daringly think is different” (Myriam Tonus, “Dangereuse l’utopie?” in La Libre...
Vincentians Heal the Hurt
by Lynn L'Heureux | Mar 14, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Vincentians Heal the Hurt – Let our Love Rule – Works of Mercy Always – Vincentian Child of God Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast Tuesday March 15, 2016 Vincentians Heal the Hurt – We are all called to heal one another and to purify ourselves and others. Those we...
Missionary Cenacle Apostolate – MCA
by Vincentian Family Office | Mar 14, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Doctor Margaret Healy was an early associate of Fr. Thomas Judge, CM. She had known him from his early preaching in Brooklyn, New York. Margaret had followed him as a lay apostle and became an effective recruiter of others. As an educator, she came in contact with...
Our Excuses For Not Giving
by Famvin Media Resources | Mar 13, 2016 | Formation
During Lent, we are asked to focus more closely on almsgiving. Almsgiving can take many forms, but here, let’s think about straightforward monetary donations. Read and ponder what Frederic Ozanam had to say…
I Like You Just Because…: Mercy as the Surprise of Sheer Gift
by Michael Whalen, CM | Mar 13, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
I Like You Just Because…: Mercy as the Surprise of Sheer Gift Whether the “gospel” begins with the tragic or the comic, that is, with sin or grace as its first movement, begs some discussion; and, still, the answer eludes any complete grasp. Catholic intuitions tend...
Vincentians of Wherever: Our Vincentian Journey
by Elizabeth Astridge | Mar 13, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
As I sat and watched my almost 3-year-old daughter dancing back and forth about 50 times in our upstairs hallway Saturday morning, all I could think about was how wonderful God is to put me on the path I am on. The path that kept me in Western New York, close to...