Formation
Daring To Pray For Structural Change
by John Freund, CM | July 29, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments
Everyone wants structural change. Do we pray for it?
Respond to More than Just Our Needs
by Ross Dizon | July 28, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Vincentian Prayer Images: What Would Vincent Think Today
by John Freund, CM | July 28, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 1 Comment
What would Vincent think about what this family could do today?
Devotion to St. Justin de Jacobis in Eritrea and Ethiopia
by Famvin Media Resources | July 26, 2020 | Congregation of the Mission, Formation | 0 Comments
St. Justin de Jacobis, C.M. (feast day: July 30) faced and overcame many challenges and hardships. His humility, goodness, and charity inspired vocations to the priesthood and converted many others in 19th century Abyssinia.
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How Can You See … But Not See?
by John Freund, CM | Jul 21, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
The quick answer is… find a pair of rose-colored glasses.
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Loaves and Fish of the Poor for the Poor
by Ross Dizon | Jul 20, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the answer in full that the Father gives to our prayers. And we poor people ask him to give us this day our...
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Vincentian Prayer Images: What Moved Saint Vincent? III
by John Freund, CM | Jul 20, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Vincent’s inner experience of the divine… what was its texture, shape, and direction?
Would a Missionary give up Swahili (Facebook) for Lent?
by John Freund, CM | Feb 19, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
What’s the first thing a missionary does? Learn the language. This is the language of the world we live. I’m sorry if you don’t like it. You could go “okay, I don’t like Swahili.”
Stir into flame… Tom McKenna CM
by John Freund, CM | Feb 19, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
The “Stir Into Flame” is from 2 Timothy 1: 1-8 — plays on Paul’s line here, and also Vincent’s “If love is a fire, then zeal is its flame.”
The lure of the desert
by Ross Dizon | Feb 17, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
First Sunday of Lent (B), February 22, 2015 – Gen 9, 8-15; 1 Pt 3, 18-22; Mk 1, 12-15 An appeal to God for a clear conscience (1 Pt 3, 21) Driven into the desert by the same Spirit that descended on him at the Jordan, Jesus is revealed as the leader of the new exodus....
XT3 2015 interactive Lenten calendar
by John Freund, CM | Feb 17, 2015 | Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
An interactive Lent Calendar 2015, featuring Indigenous artwork from Richard Campbell as well as images of our Catholic faith through the eyes of Indigenous Australians.
How do you Sisters do it!
by John Freund, CM | Feb 16, 2015 | Formation, Reflections, Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
When one looks at what dedicated women religious have done in health care, educationand in general, going to the peripheries” the question naturally arises. So just how do sisters keep writing “new chapters” in their lives?
Busted Halo – Go into the Desert for Lent
by John Freund, CM | Feb 16, 2015 | Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
During this season of Lent, you are invited into the desert: a quiet place, with less of us and more of God.
Marked with Ashes – Fr. Pat Griffin, CM
by John Freund, CM | Feb 16, 2015 | Formation
Unfailingly on this day, some people find a disconnect between the Gospel reading and the marking of our foreheads with ashes.
Who’s in the “New Family”
by John Freund, CM | Feb 14, 2015 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Father Tom McKenna, CM reflects on Who’s In The “New Family”?
“I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame” (Job 29:15)
by John Freund, CM | Feb 11, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
“I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame” (Job 29:15) – Pope Francis reminds us “Time spent with the sick is holy time ”