In the sermon on the mount, Jesus flips the script to show how different his mission was from what ordinary people expected.
Reflections
A Canadian View: What Is Good Governance?
As Vincentians our first and foremost goal is the relief of poverty across the world. We are ready to act and assist our neighbours in need in every way we can.
A Vincentian View: Out of your Mind
Has anyone ever accused you of being “out of your mind?”
Serve God Alone and Not Money
Jesus shows us the way to serve God absolutely and not money ever. Do we Christians, and Vincentians besides, really learn from him? Jesus does not love money. He is not all like those who sneer at him on hearing him say, “You cannot serve both God and wealth.”...
Vincentian Prayer Images: Trust
After doing what we can, do we have the trust to lower our nets on the other side of the boat?
Saint Paul, the Vincentians and the Stings
Let’s start talking about the “sting of poverty,” which leaves those assisted in a situation of fragility and vulnerability.
Jesus the Rude Guest
Popes Benedict and Francis call us to imitate God who reached out to us an invited all of us to sit at the table.
A Canadian View: What’s In Your Wallet? What’s In Your Heart?
There is a TV commercial for a credit card company that we have all likely seen (maybe way too often) that uses the catch phrase of “What’s in your wallet?”
More Than One Side
“Choose up sides,” three famous words that have set up boundaries between countless competing groups.
“Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Justice”
“Jesus himself warns us that the path he proposes goes against the flow, even making us challenge society by the way we live and, as a result, becoming a nuisance.”
Mercy That We Find Hard to Understand
Jesus Christ is the incarnation and personification of divine mercy (DM 2). Dwelling among us, he hopes that God’s mercy will rub on us human beings. Sinners draw near to listen to Jesus. He welcomes them, and he even eats with them, which bothers the Pharisees and...
New Series – Praying With Pictures at the Back of Our Minds
The images in our minds can haunt or inspire us to prayer. This new weekly series hopes to be the inspiration for brief, spontaeous moments of prayer.
