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The Trinity, A Big Mystery • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"In addition to the obligation we here have as Christians to honor this feast [Most Holy Trinity], we have a...
Lenten Examination of Conscience for Vincentians – Week 5
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.
Crucified Love
“The Lenten season offers us once again an opportunity to reflect upon the very heart of Christian life: charity.” – Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI
For Future Generations!
The Maastricht Principles on the Human Rights of Future Generations were adopted in early 2023 and supported by almost sixty leading experts in legal and human rights from different parts of the world.
A Vincentian View: Sower, Seed, and Soil
When I have the honor to preach to a Vincentian group, I sometimes take the opportunity to see if we have a record of Vincent speaking on the Scripture for that day.
Be Honest! Do We Prefer To Serve the “Good Poor”
Who do we prefer to serve? The “good” poor? When I am honest with myself, I realize I prefer to serve. someone whose poverty I understand.
Rush to Condemn and to Exclude
Lowly, meek and patient, Jesus bears with the weak and annoying. We learn from him to bear with one another and not rush to judge.
Vincentian Prayer Images – Art By Vincentians 13
Share your thoughts on a weekly image of artwork made by members of the Vincentian Family.
The Eucharistic Life
In the year 1264 at the request of Pope Urban, St. Thomas Aquinas composed a beautiful hymn for the feast of Corpus Christi. The hymn is very familiar to us and it continues to inspire us to love and adore the Eucharist. The first verse says: “I adore you by...
A Vincentian Minute: Habits 02
Fr. Rooney’s summer series on Vincentian “habits” of spirituality talks about the habit of praying the #Rosary.
“Zeal for your house devours me” (Ps 69) – Reflection on the virtue of Vincentian Zeal
St. Vincent reminded us that our evangelisation requires a renewed ardour of love and a living witness to the truth of the Gospel lived in active charity.
Clarifying Approaches • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"No, Monsieur, neither philosophy, nor theology, nor discourses can act in souls; Jesus Christ must be involved in this with us —or we with Him— so that we may act in Him and He in us, that we may speak as He did and in His Spirit, as He himself was in His Father, and...