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The most effective reporters highlight the impact on the life and concerns of a viewer. Pope Francis seems to instinctively do the same.
Articles in Reflections
A Canadian View: Inter-Generational Trauma, Poverty & Racism, Part One
I would like to examine the relationship between trauma, poverty and (systemic) racism over my next three articles. Part One discusses trauma.
Homeless Persons and “Listening”
We all know Pope Francis is advocating for “listening church.” How might listening apply in our efforts with the homeless community?
Do You Ignore “Nudges”?
A big storm approaches. The weatherman urges everyone to get to higher ground. In his rectory, a priest says, “I won’t worry, God will save me.”
A Canadian View: A Time for Change
As we see the changes nature provides to us, perhaps all Vincentians can take this time to examine how we might be open to some personal and organizational changes.
Saints Like Us (Hebrews 12.1)
There’s an instinct to idealize the saints as entirely different from the rest of us, off in another league at some unattainable level of holiness and favor with God.
Are You a Vincentian Cricket?
It is only in my later years that I have realized how he has influenced the Church of today!
Widow who Offers All She Has to Live on
Jesus wholly offers himself to take away our sins. In this sacrifice shares the widow who gives all she has to live on. In the Bible, as we know, to be a widow, orphan or a foreigner means, in general, to be poor. That is why the generosity of the widow of Zarephath...
Vincentian Prayer Images: One of the Great Saints of History V
Vincent de Paul would suffer all his life from the obsession to put the entire Church at the service of the poor.
Communal Spirit
What is the goal of a Vincentian? To meet God in the service of those who need it most. But being a Vincentian is a community vocation.
Mary’s Memories – the Rosary As Her Scrapbook
You all know what a scrapbook is. It is not about throwing away scraps. It is about keeping memories alive.
A Vincentian View: Go to Joseph
In this year when Pope Francis has invited us to pay special assistance to the patriarch of the Holy Family, we have probably already heard the expression “Go to Joseph.”