Reflections

A Vincentian View: Thanks for Saving Us

by Pat Griffin, CM | November 23, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

In the Gospel of the day, we hear the crucified Christ ridiculed at the end of his life. Listen to the way in which each group mocks Jesus.

“Home for the Holidays”

by John Freund, CM | November 23, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

For many of my years, “Home for the Holidays” was in the back of most people’s minds come Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Sheltering: A meditation for the Vincentian Family

by Robert Maloney, CM | November 23, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

The works of mercy lie at the heart of our Family’s spirituality.

Fix our Gaze on our Lord Jesus

by Ross Dizon | November 22, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

After putting up with the shameful cross, Jesus has been lifted up to the highest place. To fix our eyes on him means not to lose heart. A new year starts in the Church, but she asks us to fix our gaze on the end. It tells us, “Eyes on the prize.” It is the...

Handcuffs Will Not Stop Homelessness!

by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | Apr 27, 2023 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections

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 | Apr 27, 2023 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family at the U.N.

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 | Apr 26, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

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.”

Vincentian Prayer Images: A Question for Vincent

by John Freund, CM | Oct 13, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family

How would Vincent answer a question about feeling hopless or useless during this time of pandemic?

To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God (Part II)

by .famvin | Oct 12, 2020 | Formation, Reflections

The closing lines of the musical production of the Hugo’s Victors novel are quite powerful: to love another person is to see the face of God. (Part II)

Poverty is a Personality Defect

by Dee Mansi | Oct 11, 2020 | Formation, Reflections

Are Vincentians doing enough to ensure there is the preferential option for the poor?

Diaries of a Vincentian: Our return from Kenya to Germany

by Sister Magdalena | Oct 11, 2020 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections

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.