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Reflections
Eyes on Earth Day – Eyes Closed? Glazed? Wide-open?
by John Freund, CM | April 28, 2023 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
We often use images that speak of another’s awareness of something. Turning a blind eye! Eyes glazed over! Having one’s eyes wide open.
Handcuffs Will Not Stop Homelessness!
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.
What history rhymes with a future of justice and peace?
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.
A Vincentian View: The Work of God
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.”
Are Interruptions the story of your life?
by John Freund, CM | Sep 15, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Have you ever thought of interruptions as being the story of Jesus life? Let’s explore Jesus’ interruptions and what they can teach us.
Welcome Home Project Provides Safe Housing for Displaced Families
by Sisters Francelly Perez and Julie Cutter, DCs | Sep 14, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
At the end of 2018, The Vincentian Family started to work on the Welcome Home Project to provide safe housing for 32 displaced families in Parramos, Chimaltenango.
Falling In Love With “Real Families”
by John Freund, CM | Mar 19, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
It is a shame that most people only hear polarized pundits cherry-picking from a select few paragraphs, or even just footnotes, in what in reality is an inspiring document describing and addressed to the real family of today.
A Canadian View: Safe, Secure and Affordable Housing is a Human Right!
by Jim Paddon | Mar 18, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
As Vincentians, we witness the effect that the lack of safe, secure and affordable housing has on the people we serve.
Lenten Video Series: Day 26, Lifting Your Heart Up
by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | Mar 18, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 26: Lifting Your Heart Up.
Where Do You Fit In?
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | Mar 18, 2021 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections
There seems to be a range of attitudes toward the homeless. How do you further conversations with people who have different starting points and live in other categories than your own?
Lenten Video Series: Day 25, Path to God’s Grace
by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | Mar 17, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 25: Path to God’s Grace.
A Vincentian View: The Grace of Graces
by Pat Griffin, CM | Mar 17, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
“We need only ask Saint Joseph for the grace of graces: our conversion” (PC p. 9).
How Could This Happen?
by John Freund, CM | Mar 17, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
“All God’s people carry within themselves the same potencies that energized the early Christian movement…”
Lenten Video Series: Day 24, Sharing Prayer with Patients
by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | Mar 16, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 24: Sharing Prayer with Patients.
Enlighten and Glorify Men and Women
by Ross Reyes Dizon | Mar 16, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus has come to enlighten the Gentiles and to give glory to Israel (Lk 2, 32). Hence, he cannot but draw all to himself. Scholars say that the accounts of Matthew, Mark and Luke show Jesus as the Suffering Servant. In John, on the other hand, Jesus is kingly and...