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.”
Reflections
Emmaus – Why Was Jesus Slow Revealing His Resurrection?
Suppose you just discovered you were instantly cured of painful cancer? Did someone wipe out a longstanding debt?
Grasp What Jesus Is, What He Says and Does
Jesus who is close to the Father’s heart makes him known to us. It is crucial that we grasp what Jesus is, what he...
Poverty is a Personality Defect
Are Vincentians doing enough to ensure there is the preferential option for the poor?
Diaries of a Vincentian: Our return from Kenya to Germany
At the end of March this year we were told, all of a sudden, that we – Sr. Lucia, Sr. Dorothea, Sr. Zeituni and I – had to leave Kenya as soon as possible.
The Pope Video • Women in Leadership Roles in the Church
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: Women in Leadership Roles in the Church.
The Vincentian Virtues Today
The five Virtues passed down to us by St. Vincent both clash with and connect with characteristics of the present culture.
A Canadian View: A Diversity Alliance
Let us join in a diversity alliance that is inclusive of all racialized persons and fulfills what God has given us all.
Living in a Tent as a Retirement Plan
Can you imagine being in the situation of an elderly homeless man living in a tent as a Retirement Plan?
Lessons learned during the pandemic, #15: To lean on God and to support one another
We can affirm that “everything is grace.” Despite the fact that we have not left our house, we feel that we are in communion with the whole Church.
A Collaborative Witness (Luke 8:1-3)
Certainly the words and actions of such groups are meant to proclaim God’s Kingdom, but their very collaboration is itself an announcement of the Message.
Pope Francis’ Encyclical Read as a Puzzle
In a beautiful document on the call to human community, Pope Francis offers the “Good Samaritan” as a lens through which we can look at the many serious problems of a polarized and insensitive world.
