Formation

Lessons Learned During the Pandemic, #7: Another Look at the Coronavirus Pandemic

by Henri Matsinga, C.M. | August 12, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

More than four months have passed since the first positive case of COVID-19 was reported here in Rwanda.

Not Enough (Is 55; Rom 8:39; Mt 14:13-21)

by Tom McKenna, CM | August 12, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 4 Comments

An often-heard question: “Is there enough to go around?” Sometimes asked out of kindness, it can also arise out of fear.

How Do We Listen To the “Cries of the Poor”?

by John Freund, CM | August 12, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 3 Comments

To listen deeply requires paying attention not just to the words but to understand the whole person. Is that the way we listen to the cries of people who are poor?

Strangers, Foreigners, There Are No More

by Ross Dizon | August 11, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Jesus makes one of the citizens and the strangers. In him, there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female. Needs do not know borders, of nation or religion. That is why both Jews and strangers have needs. So, it does not surprise...

August 6 – Transfiguration… or… Disfiguration?

by John Freund, CM | Aug 4, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change

Transfiguration – Disfiguration. We have a choice. Which light will we walk in?

Perishable, Yet Saving Just the Same

by Ross Dizon | Aug 3, 2021 | Formation, Reflections

The Word becomes flesh; the imperishable, perishable. And he shares in our humanity so that we may share in his...

Vincentian Prayer Images: What Moved Saint Vincent? V

by John Freund, CM | Aug 3, 2021 | Formation, Reflections

Vincent was “drawn into” the Sending that is always radiating out from God.

The Emmaus Imagination Fr. Tom McKenna

by John Freund, CM | Apr 9, 2015 | Formation, Reflections

The Emmaus Imagination – A restructured imagination

“What is essential is invisible to the eye” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

by Ross Dizon | Apr 8, 2015 | Formation, Reflections

Second Sunday of Easter (B), April 12, 2015 – Acts 4, 32-35; 1 Jn 5, 1-6; Jn 20, 19-31 Whoever is begotten by God conquers the world (1 Jn 5, 4) The risen Jesus penetrates our blindness, breaks through our deafness, overcomes our defenses and allays our fears, so that...

“A Week of Sundays” Reflections from Fr.Pat Griffin

by John Freund, CM | Apr 5, 2015 | Formation

“A Week of Sundays” Reflections from Fr.Pat Griffin

Maloney – The Cross in Vincentian Spirituality

by John Freund, CM | Apr 3, 2015 | News, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

Maloney – The Cross in Vincentian Spirituality

Driving Jesus – Walking the way of the cross

by John Freund, CM | Apr 2, 2015 | Formation, Sisters of Charity

In “Driving Jesus” Tracy Kemme of the Sisters of Charity Cincinnati) reflects on walking the way of the cross with a Guatemalan mother.

The Eucharist in Vincentian Tradition

by John Freund, CM | Apr 2, 2015 | Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Vincentian Family

“The Eucharist in the Vincentian Tradition – Love is Creative unto Infinity”

The height of folly

by Ross Dizon | Mar 31, 2015 | Formation, Reflections

Easter Sunday (B), April 5, 2015 – Acts 10, 34a. 37-43; Col 3, 1-4 or 1 Cor 5, 6b-8; Jn 20, 1-9 God raised him on the third day (Acts 10, 40) In the risen Jesus is the foolishness of the cross exalted. By the Lord has this been done! By grace Peter and the beloved...