Formation

The Focus of Prophecy and Pope Francis

“I would like to invite you to go on a journey together… I am calling it a journey because it requires a shift, a change.” Pope Francis

Trap Is All It Is, There Is No Doubt

Jesus probes the heart and searches the mind.  That is why those who seek to catch him and set a trap for him fall into it themselves. The Pharisees and their followers are against the payment of taxes to Caesar.  The Herodians, on the other hand, are for it.  But it...

Vincentian Prayer Images: A Question for Vincent

How would Vincent answer a question about feeling hopless or useless during this time of pandemic?

To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God (Part II)

The closing lines of the musical production of the Hugo’s Victors novel are quite powerful: to love another person is to see the face of God. (Part II)

The gift of meaning – T.McKenna

The gift of meaning – T.McKenna

The Gift of Meaning (Lk 10:17ff) from a retreat reflection presented to the Daughters of Charity in Los Altos, California. Have you ever come across people who tell you that life for them has little or no meaning -- or even have you yourself gone through times when...

Evoking Our ‘Yes’

Evoking Our ‘Yes’

S. Janet Gildea writes of Evoking Our ‘Yes’ in the latest issue of E-Voc, the electronic newsletter from the Vocation Team of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati for single women wondering what new thing God is calling forth in their lives. What does Pope Francis...

The bar is high

Twenty Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), October 4, 2015 – Gen 2, 18-24; Heb 2, 9-11; Mk 10, 2-16 He is not ashamed to call them brothers (Heb 2, 11) Jesus remains faithful even if we are unfaithful, for he cannot deny himself. He cannot be other than the faithful...