Our lives have become pressure cookers. We can’t take it anymore!
Reflections
Backpack Blessings
Beyond SundayTM team members from The Miraculous Medal Shrine are available to visit Catholic schools to distribute Miraculous Medals, tell the story of the Miraculous Medal, and provide blessings for students, staff, and faculty.
A Vincentian View: No Chaining the Word of God
Four of Paul’s epistles are called “captivity letters:” Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon.
A Vincentian View: Writing Letters
A Vincentian View: “Writing Letters” When I worked for the Congregation and the Company in Europe, I resolved at the very beginning of my tenure to write home once-a-week. I carried out that commitment faithfully. Little danger exists that my letters will be collected...
The Limits of Pope Francis’ Imagery
Pope Francis’ Imagery and the Vincentian “Both/And”
The Hidden Poor
Becoming homeless ‘not chosen' Homeslessness is not something people choose – sometimes they are simply unlucky and fall on hard times. St Vincent de Paul Society executive and volunteer Herbert Portanier regularly meets people experiencing housing insecurity. “All it...
A Prayer Practice for Discernment
The following is a discernment technique to help you examine your day, to see if you can discover how God is calling you.
What It’s Like to Visit Châtillon
In this video, Tom Judge of DePaul University reflects on his visit to Châtillon, the birthplace of the Ladies of Charity (AIC).
The Pressures of Financing Ministry!
Just about any ministry requires financing to some degree. What can St. Vincent and St. Paul teach us?
Social Justice Conversations: Racism and Poverty
In today’s “climate,” one of the questions constantly nagging at me as the Director of Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation for the Sisters of Charity of New York is: “How to have meaningful conversations with people of color about their experiences of...
The Planted Word
The Planted Word (James 1: 17-27) Early in the last century, a boy came home from school to tell his mother how he had thrown snow balls at a homeless man lying drunk in the winter street. Taking him aside, she drove home reasons why he should never demean...
The Pot Roast Principle and Change
Generations have done the same thing in spite of the fact there was no longer any necessity for doing it that way. It was just “the way I have always done it.”
