Images for God — metaphors and visuals that catch something more fundamental and grounded than ideas for God.
Reflections
Any Memories of Your Grandparents?
My personal relationship with my grandparents is complicated. I never knew either my father’s or mother’s parents.
Contemplation: The Bashful Poor
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Effective Conferences, our manual explains, are “reachable.” [Manual, 26]...
Fill Up All Those Who Are Hungry
Jesus, like his Father, is attentive to our needs. He does not fail to fill up those of us who hunger for what we lack. Those who were dying of hunger in the desert did not have to return to Egypt to fill up themselves. For the one who had brought them out of...
Firewood for the Soul: A Change of Heart
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
To Grieve with the Evils of the Poor • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
[If so are now] the evils, not of a single district, but of several districts of Paris; not only in Paris but in Lyon, in Rouan, and in all the manufacturing cities of the North, [...] imagine what winter will bring, when the hardness of the station suspends the...
If Moccasins Could Speak!
Have you ever walked a mile in another’s moccasins? … in the moccasins of their sufferings?
A Vincentian View: Francis de Sales
Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac both held Saint Francis de Sales in high esteem.
The Church of Corinth – is the Past Prologue?
In “The Tempest,” Shakespeare wrote, “What’s past is prologue!” Antonio is rationalizing the past as setting the stage for their next act, as a prologue does in a play.
Contemplation: The Way to Peace
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Our little human minds and hearts can sometimes become so bound up in worry and anxiety that we find it difficult to act, difficult even to know what actions to take. We pray for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and then...
Attend to Others according to Their Needs
Jesus is David’s just shoot and his name is “The-Lord-our-justice.” As King and Messiah, then, he cannot but attend to all the people with justice and mercy. Through him, we can go near the Father in one Spirit. To attend to his sent ones who now come back from...
Firewood for the Soul: Ecosystem of Faith
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
