Reflections
To Comply with the Precepts or to Be Truly Christian • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | June 29, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Part 2: Episcopal Message Resurfaces
by John Freund, CM | June 28, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Highlights from Part 2 of a truly prophetic forgotten document published by the U.S. Catholic Bishops more than a quarter-century ago.
Contemplation: The Challenge of Modern Times
by Tim Williams | June 27, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
Who’s In/Out? (Mark 3:20-35)
by Tom McKenna, CM | June 26, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
I remember a man complaining that there was too much dissention in his family. He used a memorable phrase to describe their connections: “In a given month, who’s in and who’s out?”
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Heard any Shocking Statements?
by John Freund, CM | Jul 10, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Heard any really “shocking statements” in the last 24 hours?
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Contemplation: True Presence
by Tim Williams | Jul 9, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Vincentians are doers, we are people of action. We love God, as St....
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Sent Ones, Men and Women, of Jesus
by Ross Dizon | Jul 9, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
As the Father sends him, so Jesus sends his disciples. These sent ones carry out what their Teacher tells them to...
What It Means to Pray Without Ceasing According to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
by Danielle Bean | May 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
God doesn’t want a casual relationship. He wants us to turn to him in everything we do. As St. Elizabeth Ann Seton says: “He wants us to lift our hearts to him. Always.”
Speaking to God Through Scripture with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
by Kathleen N. Hattrup | May 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton found in Sacred Scripture a path to God. Her life embodied what the Second Vatican Council called the “force and power in the word of God” that becomes the “support and energy of the Church.”
The Shining Gaze (Ps 4:7a; Lk 24:36-80)
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
A favorite verse, Psalm 4, reads: “Lord, let your face shine upon us.” It summons up a very warm and private kind of experience that each of us in our own way can recognize.
Mayday! – Pope Francis and Vincentian Voices
by John Freund, CM | May 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Mayday! Mayday! It’s the call that no airplane pilot or ship’s captain ever wants to make. Why? Because it means trouble. Big trouble!
Contemplation: A Culture of Welcome – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection
by Tim Williams | Apr 30, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Many of our Conferences struggle with finding – and keeping – new members. Often, when this happens, we begin to tell ourselves that perhaps we are asking too much of potential members; scaring them off with the notion of...
Hand over the Body and Shed the Blood
by Ross Dizon | Apr 30, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus gives us the greatest proof of love one can give. For he deigns to hand over his body and shed his blood out of love for us. I can give away all I own to help the poor or even hand over my body to burn. Still, this does not always mean I love; I could do it for...
Firewood for the Soul: Who Do You Say I Am?
by Samantha Hill | Apr 29, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
The Small Pleasures of Life • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 27, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
I do not like and do not share in any way the rigorist doctrines of some Christians, who, without even realizing it, have clothed themselves in arrogance and false modesty; they are far from the true spirit of faith. The innocent joys of life were never forbidden....
A Polarized Church both Then and Now
by John Freund, CM | Apr 26, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Growing up, I was fascinated by fading pictures meticulously glued into some decades-old family albums. There I saw pictures of my mother and father before I was born.