"Another thing that recommends simplicity to us in a wonderful way are those words of Our Lord: 'I confess to you,...
Reflections
The Herald of Good Tidings
In the liturgical readings of the season of advent the book of Isaiah has a prominent place. Especially the passage,...
Vincentian Advent Reflections 2023 – Week 1
A beautiful reflection about “gift-giving”.
Saints Like Us (Hebrews 12.1)
There’s an instinct to idealize the saints as entirely different from the rest of us, off in another league at some unattainable level of holiness and favor with God.
Are You a Vincentian Cricket?
It is only in my later years that I have realized how he has influenced the Church of today!
Widow who Offers All She Has to Live on
Jesus wholly offers himself to take away our sins. In this sacrifice shares the widow who gives all she has to live on. In the Bible, as we know, to be a widow, orphan or a foreigner means, in general, to be poor. That is why the generosity of the widow of Zarephath...
Vincentian Prayer Images: One of the Great Saints of History V
Vincent de Paul would suffer all his life from the obsession to put the entire Church at the service of the poor.
Communal Spirit
What is the goal of a Vincentian? To meet God in the service of those who need it most. But being a Vincentian is a community vocation.
Mary’s Memories – the Rosary As Her Scrapbook
You all know what a scrapbook is. It is not about throwing away scraps. It is about keeping memories alive.
A Vincentian View: Go to Joseph
In this year when Pope Francis has invited us to pay special assistance to the patriarch of the Holy Family, we have probably already heard the expression “Go to Joseph.”
What Questions Get You Thinking?
Oprah Winfrey got me thinking with two questions.
Hear, the Lord our God is Lord Alone
Jesus embodies the one who created us, men and women, in his image, after his likeness. Rightly does he tell us, then, that to love and hear God is to love and hear the neighbor. A scribe asks Jesus, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” And he answers that...
