Dear friend, you are continually heading out on long and fatiguing journeys that are dangerous to your health (your...
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by John Freund, CM | July 26, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
We see so little of God’s creation! Yet we still think of our world as the center of creation, our culture as the model for all cultures.
by Tom McKenna, CM | July 24, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
Images for God — metaphors and visuals that catch something more fundamental and grounded than ideas for God.
by John Freund, CM | July 24, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
My personal relationship with my grandparents is complicated. I never knew either my father’s or mother’s parents.
by Tim Williams | July 23, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
by Javier F. Chento | May 11, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Dear friend, you are continually heading out on long and fatiguing journeys that are dangerous to your health (your...
by Tom Hoopes | May 10, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
What does the Ascension of the Lord mean for the world and for our own lives? The answer can be found in the faith journey of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, who kept her gaze firmly fixed on Jesus, through time and eternity.
by John Freund, CM | May 10, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Mothers might have saved Stanford University a lot of money. Most mothers already know instinctively when “mother deafness” manifests itself in their teenagers.
by John Freund, CM | Jan 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
“The scandal of the manger” – A New Year’s “mindwalk” using the words of Pope Francis.
by Famvin Media Resources | Jan 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Share your thoughts on a weekly image of artwork made by members of the Vincentian Family.
by Mary Frances Jaster | Jan 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
MISEVI International is hosting an Extraordinary Assembly in Bogota, Colombia, April 10-13, 2024. Our theme, Called to Holiness: New Wine, New Wineskins, reflects not only the future of MISEVI, but also our rootedness in the Gospel.
by Samantha Hill | Jan 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
by Ross Dizon | Dec 31, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the Word made flesh and he is in our midst. Those who do not fail to see and hear him, and do what he says, turn into relatives of his. It looks like Jesus does not find it hard to see and hear folks tell him, “Your mother and brother are out there and want...
by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Dec 30, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
"You should know, Sisters, that Our Lord willed to experience in His own person every kind of distress imaginable. The scriptural expression is that He willed to be regarded as a scandal to the Jews and a folly to the Gentiles (1 Cor 1:23) to show you that you can...
by Fr. Binoy Puthusery, C.M. | Dec 28, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
St. Luke concludes the good news of Christ’s birth with this beautiful canticle of Simeon, which traditionally is called as Nunc Dimitis; “Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you...
by Ross Dizon | Dec 27, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is like us in all things but sin. He is not a stranger to the joys, sorrows, light and glory that our homes know. They say that tough times bring out the best and the worst in us and, of course, in our homes. In the face of crises and uncertainties, some folks...
by Tom McKenna, CM | Dec 27, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
Have you ever been “sent on a Mission?” – picked out and entrusted with something to say or do?