In these foul cellars and garrets, sometimes next door to sloth and vice we have often come upon the loveliest...
Reflections
Catholic Families: Are they Mirrors of God’s Love?
This Vincentian Mindwalk started out as a virtual journey to Rome for the 10th World Meeting of Families in 2022. To...
Contemplation: To Wait for God’s Own Time
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org The church calls the laity to “fulfill their prophetic mission by...
Firewood for the Soul: On the sidelines
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
Lenten Letter 2024 from Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, to the Vincentian Family
Rome, 18 February 2024 First Sunday of Lent To all the members of the Vincentian Family Movement ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT TO BE IN LOVE WITH JESUS Dear brothers and sisters in Saint Vincent, May the grace and peace of Jesus be always with us! In my letter...
From Your Prodigious Mind this Whole World Was Made … • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"God also works incessantly from outside himself in the creation and preservation of this great universe, in the movements of the heavens, in the influences of the stars, in the productions of land and sea, in the nature of the atmosphere, in the regulation of the...
Lenten Examination of Conscience for Vincentians – Week 1
Each Friday of Lent we will share a different guide to help examine your conscience based on different aspects of our lives as members of the Vincentian Family.
My thinking about Lent has changed
Over the last 30 years, I have been learning to pay attention to the opportunities hidden in the events of my life.
A Vincentian View: What a Difference a Day Makes
Ash Wednesday follows Mardi Gras – “Fat Tuesday.” The days stand out as contrasts.
Beginning of the Path: Reflections on Ash Wednesday
“Create in me, O God, a pure heart, renew in me a steadfast spirit. Do not repel me from your presence and do not deprive me of your holy spirit” (Ps 50[51]:12-13). Ash Wednesday begins Lent, bringing with it an invitation to reflection and inner renewal. This holy...
Valentine’s Day, Baptism, and Eucharist?
At one level we say you can’t put a price tag on love. But at another level, Americans alone spend well over 20 billion on celebrating love on a day called Valentine’s Day.
Beginnings in Eden and in the Desert
Jesus obeys to the point of death on a cross. He does so to lead us to God and to the beginnings in Eden and in the desert, and to make us all just, washed in the waters of new birth. Jesus stays in the desert for forty days, which sends us back, in the first place,...
