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Reflections
Questioning God’s First Question
Do you remember God’s first question? It’s one parents often ask their children. But it is also one that has many meanings according to the context.
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Rev. 22: 16; Jn 17: 20-26)
The word Glory shows up frequently in the Scriptures, all those praises of God’s Glory and in particular Jesus’ petitions to His Father asking to give the disciples (and all of us) the Glory that the Father has given Him.
A Canadian View: Crime and Us
I have often wondered why our prison system in Canada is called Corrections Canada when there seems to be little evidence of trying to re-habilitate prisoners while they serve their sentence. It would be too simple to compare our system with that of the USA where the...
Testifying
Testifying (Luke 9:1-2) Reading Luke’s account of the disciples being sent out, I put myself in the shoes of one of those 70 individuals directed to go forth and proclaim the Good News that in Jesus, God’s forgiving compassion is drawing near. How would I feel...
Everyone Knows How to Listen! … Really?
The task of listeners is not to impose their ideas on the young. It is to help the young see the presence of the Spirit in their hearts and lives.
Surrender Freely, Joyfully, Holding Back Nothing
Trusting in his Father, Jesus musters the courage to surrender for us everything he has and all that he is. To belong to him and to his kingdom entails such trusting surrender. Jesus praises the intelligence of the scribe who has asked, “Which is the first of all the...
The Heroes In Our Lives – The Saints Next Door
“All the Saints” can never be limited to those who have fully graduated. As the entire New Testament does, we must apply the word “saints” to all of us who are in kindergarten, primary school, middle school, high school, college, and doing graduate studies..
VLM/VMC Impact: To Serve Others and to Work to Improve Issues of Social Injustice
We continue to share a series of reflections made by Vincentian Lay Missionaries and Vincentian Mission Corps participants about their experience serving, how it has impacted their lives and how they continue to live the Vincentian Charism today. Ever since...
A Vincentian View: “Belonging to God”
A Vincentian View: “Belonging to God” All of us know what a seal is. In our day, it may take the form of a logo or insignia or symbol which is on a shirt or a scarf or a car or almost anything else. When we see that emblem, we know who made that...
Some Things We Can All Agree On!
We pray in thanksgiving for the privilege and responsibility of being able to organize as individuals politically. We pray that each of us, as citizens, feel compelled to exercise our right and responsibility to vote…
First and Greatest of All the Commandments
Jesus teaches that the first and the greatest of all the commandments is to love God and the neighbor. The Teacher practices, moreover, what he teaches. According to Jewish teaching, there are 613 commandments. Of these, 365 are prohibitions and 248 are positive...
