Hardships and unwanted sacrifices will not cease, but you will learn how to overcome them.
Reflections
The Pope Video • For Health Care Workers
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: For Health Care Workers.
Lenten Video Series, Day 34: The Big Picture
Faith played an enormous role in the building of America. Our ancestors made enormous sacrifices for us to be here today. Patrick Shea believes we’re all here for a reason, and we need to set ourselves on a righteous path.
Kenya VLM: Blessed is the FRUIT of your Womb, Jesus
Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the FRUIT of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. While in a small village in Kenya, Africa called Chepnyal...
Education: A Place of Integration • A Weekly Reflection with Louise
"Mademoiselle Le Gras questioned whether it’s advisable for our Sisters in the towns and countryside who teach school to take both boys and girls and, in the event that they do take boys, to what age they will keep them. There are many reasons in favor of that....
Mike Says, “Welcoming Refugees is the Lord’s Work”
"Have you ever had a moment when you just knew the Holy Spirit was at work right in front of you? When your spine tingles and your eyes grow wide?" So writes our friend, Mike Jordan Laskey. "I experienced one of those sacred encounters in a Catholic school basement in...
Gospel Stretching: Wideness
Gospel Stretching (Mark 6:1-6) There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the Sea. So begins the famous hymn written by Frederick Faber two centuries ago. Freeing and refreshing and life-giving and promising as it sounds, wideness can...
Thirst and Hunger for God, Justice and Love
Meeting his thirst and hunger, Jesus gives us a model to follow, so that we may truly have our fill of water and food. Like us humans, Jesus gets tired and experiences thirst and hunger. So, he sits down there at Jacob’s well in Sychar during the hottest part of the...
Be Still – A Generous God
Be Still – A Generous God – Clinging – Be Alert Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast, Repost from August 2013 Be Still... ...and know I am your God. Shout for joy. God is offering abundance for all people who come to Him. Be still and listen to His call, you are...
Pardon Your Servant
“Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else,” (Exodus 4:13). Moses’s words at the burning bush have always resonated with me, in younger years before I appreciated the audacity of his request, I was struck by his humility and humanity. Moreover, I was...
White Slave Traffic • A Weekly Reflection with Louise
"[Madame de Lamoignon told me that,] although we try to employ good women, the majority of them are forced to leave because of bad conduct rather than on account of the necessities of the times. Moreover, these women, who have been gathered from allover and who are of...
It’s About Love
William (Bill) Graham from Peel-North Toronto Ontario Regional Council, Society of St. Vincent de Paul offers his reflection, It's About Love: As Vincentians we can, and in most cases, do great things, help so many people and sometimes change lives. We are so...
