Lenten Series of reflections taken from the Conferences of the Rev. Lacordaire.
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by Famvin Media Resources | February 23, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Each Friday of Lent we will share a different guide to help examine your conscience based on different aspects of our lives as members of the Vincentian Family.
by Famvin Media Resources | February 23, 2024 | Formation | 1 Comment
This Lenten presentation is from a letter by former Superior General Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M.
by John Freund, CM | February 23, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
The author’s reflections did not refer to pleasant bike rides in the safety of a park. He speaks of the hostility and risks faced by bike riders on busy city streets or highways.
by .famvin | Mar 19, 2024 | Formation
Lenten Series of reflections taken from the Conferences of the Rev. Lacordaire.
by .famvin | Mar 18, 2024 | Formation
Lenten Series of reflections taken from the Conferences of the Rev. Lacordaire.
by Samantha Hill | Mar 18, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
by Pat Griffin, CM | Aug 2, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
During the past month, I have celebrated three weddings… In preparation for the celebrations, one word kept emerging for me from the texts—“covenant.”
by John Freund, CM | Aug 2, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
The question “How have you changed” is more complicated than you might realize! Before you answer, listen to this story.
by Ross Dizon | Aug 1, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus, God-with-us, is the first of the brothers and sisters who rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. There is a report that fewer folks in the U.S. believe in God and, one can guess, in God-with-us. For the number of believers in the U.S. is...
by Famvin Media Resources | Aug 1, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Share your thoughts on a weekly image of artwork made by members of the Vincentian Family.
by Zeracristos Yosief, C.M. | Jul 31, 2023 | Formation
Introduction “Convince yourself that you will not enter into savour and sweetness of spirit unless you give yourself to the mortification of everything you desire,” said the mystic St John of the Cross. The savour and sweetness of spirit, therefore, will never be...
by Fr. Binoy Puthusery, C.M. | Jul 31, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
There is an interesting conversation between St. Vincent and St. Louise which I read many years back in a book about St. Vincent. The topic of conversation was,” why God allows sufferings in our life?”. Vincent tells to Louise, that “God can be compared to a sculptor...
by Famvin Media Resources | Jul 30, 2023 | Formation
Watch a video to hear one of the retreatants tell his story.
by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Jul 29, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
"As for myself, I don’t know, but God has given me such a high esteem of simplicity that I call it my Gospel. I have special devotion and consolation in saying things as they are." (CCD, IX, conference 52). "Everyone loves simple, candid people, who don’t use...
by .famvin | Jul 29, 2023 | Formation
Despite the distance of two centuries between them, there are — in the biographies of Vincent de Paul and Frederic Ozanam— some curious points of coincidence [...]. Although both were born far from Paris (Ozanam in Italy), they were inhabitants of that city most of...