“The up-to-date renewal of the religious life comprises both a constant return to the sources of the whole of the...
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by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | April 27, 2023 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections | 0 Comments
In a recent reflection on the site Invisible People, Robert Davis makes the point that handcuffs will never solve homelessness.
by Mary Ann Dantuono | April 27, 2023 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family at the U.N. | 0 Comments
The history of Social Development at the UN continues to echo but more rhymes are needed so that it leads to a fulfillment of the promises of placing people at the center of development, eradicating poverty, providing productive employment and decent work, and creating social inclusion.
by Pat Griffin, CM | April 26, 2023 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
One of the verses from a Gospel of the past week captured my thinking and prompted my reflection: “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”
by John Freund, CM | April 26, 2023 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Suppose you just discovered you were instantly cured of painful cancer? Did someone wipe out a longstanding debt?
by Fr. Binoy Puthusery, C.M. | Aug 21, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
“The up-to-date renewal of the religious life comprises both a constant return to the sources of the whole of the...
by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Aug 19, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
"You know that Our Lord willed to be tried by all kinds of misery. ‘We have a High Priest,’ says Saint Paul, ‘who...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 18, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Fires are burning faster and hotter than ever before, and complex socio-economic factors are resulting in more people being affected by the effects of smoke, debris flows and other wildfire effects.
by .famvin | Aug 7, 2021 | Church, Formation, Reflections
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: Church on the Way.
by John Freund, CM | Aug 6, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Leaven is “a pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better.” Fungi are the principal decomposers in ecological systems. When are we leaven … and when are we fungi for the Kingdom?
by Pat Griffin, CM | Aug 4, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
An important maxim in Christian tradition affirms simply lex orandi, lex credendi that can be rendered “The law of praying is the law of believing.”
by John Freund, CM | Aug 4, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
Transfiguration – Disfiguration. We have a choice. Which light will we walk in?
by Ross Dizon | Aug 3, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
The Word becomes flesh; the imperishable, perishable. And he shares in our humanity so that we may share in his divinity. Jesus says that he is the bread that came from heaven, which makes the Jews grumble. They are sure that he is from the same land as they and as...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 3, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Vincent was “drawn into” the Sending that is always radiating out from God.
by Marta Marin, Misevi Colombia | Aug 2, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
We, the members of Misevi Colombia, are people of different ways of being.
by John Freund, CM | Jul 30, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Jesus was a radical who was fully committed to doing God’s will. He showed us how radical he was when laid down his life for us. As he hung on the cross he said “Father, forgive them. They know not what they are doing.” Certainly the words of a radical!
by Mary Ann Dantuono | Jul 29, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Global extreme poverty (<$1.90 USD per day) rose in 2020 adding an additional 119 million. By 2021 that number is expected to rise to 143 million.