Formation

The Dignity of the Poor • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | July 6, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

In these foul cellars and garrets, sometimes next door to sloth and vice we have often come upon the loveliest domestic virtues, on a refinement and intelligence that one does not always meet with under gilded ceilings; a poor cooper, of past seventy years of age,...

July 9: St. Francis Regis Clet

by Famvin Media Resources | July 5, 2024 | Congregation of the Mission, Formation | 0 Comments

The following presentation is from a Homily of Superior General Robert P. Maloney, C.M. at the Prayer Vigil for the Canonization of Francis Regis Clet. Rome, 30 September 2000.

Catholic Families: Are they Mirrors of God’s Love?

by John Freund, CM | July 5, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

This Vincentian Mindwalk started out as a virtual journey to Rome for the 10th World Meeting of Families in 2022. To my surprise, it developed into a reflection on what the church can learn from “happy marriages.” I have had a life-long interest in the family as an...

Contemplation: To Wait for God’s Own Time

by Tim Williams | July 4, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments

This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org The church calls the laity to “fulfill their prophetic mission by evangelization” which has “peculiar efficacy because it is accomplished in the ordinary circumstances of the world.” [CCC, 905] Our Vincentian vocation, our...

Firewood for the Soul: Who is My Neighbour?

by Samantha Hill and James Hodge | Aug 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.

A Vincentian Minute: Vincentian Women 06

by Famvin Media Resources | Aug 18, 2024 | Formation

Fr. Rooney continues his series on “Vincentian Women.” This week: Catherine Harkins.

It Is Better to Do Little than to Do Nothing • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | Aug 17, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

Representatives of the people, Do not say that you lack inspiration. [...] We do not ignore the obstacles or the...

Beware of Artificial Intelligence …

by Javier F. Chento | Dec 14, 2023 | Formation

In the fast-paced world of technology, the year 2023 has marked a crucial milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) programs.

Our Wounded Youth

by Nuala Kenny, SC | Dec 14, 2023 | Formation

An interesting article of Nuala Kenny who is a Sister of Charity in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a pediatrician.

Active Waiting (Mark 1:1-8)

by Tom McKenna, CM | Dec 13, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

The Advent message? Not only to welcome the Lord’s arrival, but also to take the kinds of steps which ease His birthing among us.

Why Did I Create Mindwalk?

by John Freund, CM | Dec 13, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Either hopefully conveys a space where people feel comfortable in talking with friends that matter, about things that matter.

Recognize Jesus Who Is in Our Midst

by Ross Reyes Dizon | Dec 12, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus is in in our midst. Do we Christians get to recognize him? Do we give witness to him by the way we are, live and act? Priests, Levites and Pharisees grill John as if they were in court. And he does not hesitate to recognize simply that he is not the Messiah nor...

Now Available: Biographies and Liturgical Prayers for the Saints and Blesseds of the Vincentian Family

by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 12, 2023 | Featured, Formation, Vincentian Family

A workgroup made up of members of the Vincentian Family has been working in recent years on preparing a document that includes all the saints and blesseds of the Vincentian Family, offering a brief biography of each of them, and another document that offers the specific prayers for the Eucharist of each one of them.