Reflections

Lenten Video Series: Day 28, Prayer Takes Time

by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | March 20, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 28, Prayer Takes Time.

The Importance of Spiritual Advisors in Times of Pandemic

by .famvin | March 20, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Keeping the flame of the Vincentian charism burning has been a challenge during the pandemic.

Lenten Video Series: Day 27, Christ In Us

by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | March 19, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 27: Christ In Us.

Falling In Love With “Real Families”

by John Freund, CM | March 19, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments

It is a shame that most people only hear polarized pundits cherry-picking from a select few paragraphs, or even just footnotes, in what in reality is an inspiring document describing and addressed to the real family of today.

Heavenly as Our Father Who Is in Heaven

by Ross Dizon | Feb 15, 2022 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus, the second man is from heaven. He bids us to be one with him, so that we who are of the earth may become...

Vincentian Prayer Images: One of the Great Saints of History XX

by John Freund, CM | Feb 15, 2022 | Formation, Reflections

One of the reasons for Saint Vincent de Paul to be considered a key figure in the history of the holiness of the Church is his style of living his vocation. Each week we will present an example.

Could Teleportation Aid Bible Reading?

by John Freund, CM | Feb 11, 2022 | Formation, Reflections

I sometimes wish I could be teleported back to the days of the early church and experience Jesus as they did.

Promise of Greatness, Blessing and Glory

by Ross Dizon | Mar 7, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus is the perfect, awesome and amazing fulfillment of the promise God has made through the patriarchs and the prophets. From the perspective of human wisdom, the good news is that God makes a hopeful promise to Abraham. But the bad news is that the Father of all...

God, You are my Strength and my Song – Walk in Faith

by Lynn L'Heureux | Mar 6, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul

God, You are my Strength and my Song - Walk in Faith - Wrestling with Temptation - First Sunday of Lent Day 5- Matthew 4:1-11 Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast God, You are my Strength and my Song You are the reason for my joy. Fill me with your Holy Spirit; you are...

The Reality of Temptation

by Fr. Binoy Puthusery, C.M. | Mar 5, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Once again we are in the season of Lent. The Gospel passage for the first Sunday of Lent always invites us to reflect about the Temptation of Jesus. Soon after Jesus’s baptism and descent of the Holy Spirit upon him Jesus was tempted by the devil. Jesus is entrusted...

Public or Private Education • A Weekly Reflection with Louise

by Benito Martínez, C.M. | Mar 3, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

"Monsieur, Louise de Marillac, widow of Monsieur Le Gras, secretary to the Queen, Mother of the King, very humbly supplicates Monsieur des Roches, Rector of Notre-Dame de Paris, informing him that the sight of the great number of poor in the Saint-Denis district leads...

Lenten Reflection: Resurrection Faith

by Famvin Media Resources | Mar 3, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

During Lent we orient ourselves toward Jerusalem/Calvary, where we’ll follow Jesus through the last week of his life. This Slideshare, based on one of the Lenten letters of Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M., invites each of us to ponder our own life and death. [slideshare...

What If We Devoted The Season To Caring For Immigrants And Refugees?

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 2, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Our friend and "Vincentian of Wherever," Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at National Catholic Reporter. I wonder how the country might change if we Christians doubled down on our Lenten observance this year — not just as individuals focusing on our own spiritual...

Walking With Mary during Lent: 10 Little Steps

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 2, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

We're all looking to refresh our Lenten practices. As Family with a deep devotion to the Blessed Mother, why not walk the 40 days with Mary? Kathleen Beckmann writes: Mary enriches our spiritual journey always. Perhaps we can consider living the Lenten season with...

Talk, Speech, Deed

by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 1, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Talk, Speech, Deed (1 Cor 2: 1-5) In one of the many commentaries on the quality of the rhetoric in the recent campaign, I came across a distinction I had never thought of – the difference between talk and speech. Talk, whatever comes to you on the spot, or from off...

Tempting but Destructive Suggestion

by Ross Dizon | Feb 28, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus is God-Man. He himself unmasks the deceit in the devil’s tempting suggestion: it is either God or man. From the perspective of our faith in the Word made flesh, we cannot but reject such tempting suggestion. It is not true that one must choose either God or...