Reflections
Lenten Video Series, Day 3: A New Foundation
For Kasey Brown, the concept of “giving something up” for Lent went from being a casual observation of tradition to a life-changing spiritual rebirth that strengthened the foundation of her love for God.
Please Don’t Feed the Trolls
In the language of the internet, a troll is a person who makes inflammatory, insincere, or otherwise off-topic comments in a social setting.
Lenten Video Series, Day 2: Going Deeper
As a Mission Youth Apostle, Joe Coffey found that his desire to go deeper into his faith was hitting continual road blocks of fear and uncertainty.
Ascension of the Poor Lying in the Dust
The ascension of Jesus proves that God lifts up the lowly and fills the hungry with good things. On the day of the ascension itself, Jesus appears once more to the apostles. He tells them that in a few days they will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. The news...
End Homelessness Throughout The World
One of the four common projects that Fr. Tomaž Mavrič has encouraged members of the Vincentian Family to participate in during this 400th Anniversary year is a project to end homelessness throughout the world, which includes caring for refugees, migrants, street...
Vincentians are Happy Serving our Lord – Vincentians Work Hard with God
Vincentians are Happy Serving our Lord - Vincentians Work Hard with God - JOHN 12:44-50 - Charity and Love Prevail Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast Vincentians are Happy Serving our Lord The desire for happiness is, at its core, the desire for God. The fulfillment...
Vincentian Pilgrimage from Holland to Gannes
We share this chronicle on the peregrination made to Gannes by a group of members of the Vincentian Family of The Netherlands: There he stood, at the middle of the road, when I descended the bus near the church of Gannes, a little village, somewhat above Paris,...
Vincentians of Wherever: My Vincentian Journey Towards Simplicity & Awareness
On the Medium Blog Meet me at the Mission, DePaul graduating student Cece Metzdorff writes, When did the word “simple” obtain a negative connotation? While the dictionary may define simple as “easy,” I would like to disagree. I think simplicity is hard....
Adaptation – The Genius of Vincent in Recognizing Lay Women
Over time these confraternities became the principal means through which de Paul engaged with devout Catholic women, who were excluded by their sex from expressing their faith through the functions of ordained ministry but aspired to find alternative means of doing so.
The Fruits of the Holy Spirit and Vincentians’ Life
Christians are human beings of the Holy Spirit, but it is a lifelong process. In this process there are always temptations, inside and outside distracters that lead us astray, recession, and return to the "natural life without the Spirit" (Jude 1:19). We need to...
Forgiveness, Always In Community • A Weekly Reflection with Louise
“I must tell you about another practice which our Most Honored Father strongly recommended to us at the last conference his Charity gave us. He told us that, as soon as we see that we have offended one or several of our sisters, we should immediately kneel and ask...
I Believe! A Creed of the Poor
I believe in those who pray and struggle, I trust in the eyes of those who weep and in the voice of the prophets, I believe in those who are persecuted, humiliated and mistreated I believe in those who have nowhere to lay their heads, In mothers who stay in the...