A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
Formation
A Vincentian Minute: What Why How 03
Fr. Rooney speaks about the things we do, and why and how we do it. This week: a collaborative approach.
“Beauty” is in God • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"What can compare to the beauty of God, who is the source of all the beauty and perfection of creatures? Is it not...
Receiving Me (2 Kings,4; Mt 10:40)
Two agitated men, just coming from a disastrous happening, were walking down a country road and pouring out their shared troubles. Each was focused on his own grief, but each was also was taking in the pain of the other.
Do Mothers Have Favorites?
Do mothers have favorites? It depends on who you ask! Here I explore whether God has favorite children.
Optimists, for They Rely on the Word
Jesus is at once the Good News of the kingdom and he that preaches it. He wants us to be optimists, preaching with him bountifully, not sparingly.
Vincentian Prayer Images – Art By Vincentians 12
Share your thoughts on a weekly image of artwork made by members of the Vincentian Family.
Prudence
In the Bible, the First Book of Kings chapter three and four speaks about King Solomon and the greatness of his rule. He had a strong administrative structure. The army was also very strong and he was sovereign over all other neighboring kingdoms. During his rule we...
A Vincentian Minute: Habits 01
Fr. Rooney’s summer series on Vincentian “habits” of spirituality talks about the habit of #prayer.
Acting from Jesus Christ • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"Something else to which you must pay very close attention is to be very dependent on the guidance of the Son of God; I mean that, when you have to take action, you should make this reflection: ‘Is this in conformity with the maxims of the Son of God?’ If you see that...
Saint Francis Régis Clet: The Missionary Who Was Strangled Three Times
Among the Missionaries of the Congregation of the Mission, there is a martyr who cried tears of joy when he was sent to China and when he was imprisoned there.
St. Francis Regis Clet as Seen in his Letters
Thomas Devitt, CM, presents excerpts from St. Francis Regis Clet’s letters from the period between 1812 and his execution in 1820.
