Reflections

Lenten Examination of Conscience for Vincentians – Week 3

by Famvin Media Resources | March 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Each Friday of Lent we will share a different guide to help examine your conscience based on different aspects of our lives as members of the Vincentian Family.

Mothers – Lessons Mary Learned and Teaches

by John Freund, CM | March 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment

What do mothers do all day? They do so much! Often mothers can’t remember all the things they do for the family.

A Vincentian View: The Transfiguration – Listen

by Pat Griffin, CM | February 28, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

For the last years, I do not think that I have meditated on any theme more often that listening. Most recently, the line that ends the story of the Transfiguration has attracted me.

A Transforming Surprise – Encounter With Jesus

by John Freund, CM | February 28, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment

Jesus’ disciples experienced a transforming surprise. They became aware of being loved. That encounter opened their eyes … and they ran to tell others about it!

Clocks Versus the Time In Our Heads

by John Freund, CM | Mar 13, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

Changing your clocks, watches, and iPhone settings might not be as important as you think. Before you panic about being out of sync for your 9:00 am meeting, hear me out!

Bear Much Fruit Means Die with Christ

by Ross Dizon | Mar 12, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus loves others to the end, to being lifted up on the cross. His death proves true that the grain of wheat that...

Contemplation: To Do a Little Good – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection

by Tim Williams | Mar 12, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul

This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org In Monsieur Vincent, the 1947 movie about our patron’s life, he is asked...

A Time to Withdraw to the Wilderness

by Fr. Binoy Puthusery, C.M. | Dec 3, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

I remember what a priest once shared, during the season of Advent, on how his mother prepared her children for the celebration of Christmas. This mother, though she was an illiterate and simple woman, had a very unique way of preparing her children for Christmas. On...

Simple, Not Hidden • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent

by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Dec 2, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

"Another thing that recommends simplicity to us in a wonderful way are those words of Our Lord: 'I confess to you, Father, because you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to little ones.' I acknowledge this, Father, and thank You...

The Herald of Good Tidings

by Fr. Binoy Puthusery, C.M. | Dec 2, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

In the liturgical readings of the season of advent the book of Isaiah has a prominent place. Especially the passage, (Isa 40:1-11) in which we read about the voice which commands the herald of good tidings to “Cry out.” It is a solemn command to announce the good news...

Vincentian Advent Reflections 2023 – Week 1

by Famvin Media Resources | Dec 1, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

A beautiful reflection about “gift-giving”.

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

by John Freund, CM | Dec 1, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

We are seeing the replay of decades of hostility in the region of Jesus’ birth!

Already and Not Yet (Mt 25: 14-30)

by Tom McKenna, CM | Nov 29, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

A phrase often on Jesus’ lips: “The Kingdom of God” — or in another iteration, “the Reign of God, His Father.”

Christ the King and the “Duck Test”

by John Freund, CM | Nov 29, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Many will recognize the saying, “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.”

Tasks for the Servants of Jesus

by Ross Dizon | Nov 28, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus has chosen and brought us to his house. And he has assigned us tasks that we have to carry out as we wait for him to come back. There are not a few of us who do not do not fulfill our assigned tasks. Is this due to our not being of those who are wise,...