Reflections
Advent Prayer from SVDP Young Adult Center
by Darcy O’Hara | December 23, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 3 Comments
The St. Vincent De Paul Young Adult Center invites participants to transform the way they see the world, following the examples of St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac.
A Vincentian View: And this will be a sign for you…
by Pat Griffin, CM | December 23, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
This year something different in the Christmas readings captured my prayer and attention. Perhaps it suggests the times and the disposition of my mind and heart.
Incarnation – Call To Change
by John Freund, CM | December 23, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
Jesus came to change our minds, not God’s! The Word became flesh to show us what God’s message and way of thinking looks like when lived humanly. Jesus is the living model of world-changing systemic change.
Spread the Unbelievable Good News
by Ross Dizon | December 22, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
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Widow who Offers All She Has to Live on
by Ross Dizon | Nov 2, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus wholly offers himself to take away our sins. In this sacrifice shares the widow who gives all she has to live...
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Vincentian Prayer Images: One of the Great Saints of History V
by John Freund, CM | Nov 2, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Vincent de Paul would suffer all his life from the obsession to put the entire Church at the service of the poor.
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Communal Spirit
by Monica Villar, MISEVI International | Nov 1, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
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.
You Are Somebody
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jul 6, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
“You Are Somebody…” (John 15) (Homily at the Farewell Mass for the departing members of the 2015/16 Vincentian Mission Corps, St. Louis) Jesus confides in His disciples today, “I have told you this, that your joy may be complete.” Or to put it another way: “I...
Fullness par excellence and unequaled
by Ross Dizon | Jul 5, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
In Jesus dwells all the fullness; those who treat the helpless with mercy are surely partakers of his fullness. “And who is my neighbor?” asks a scholar of the law who wants to justify himself. He is also one of those experts who like to test Jesus. They think they...
Be a Sign – Everyday Formation
by Lynn L'Heureux | Jul 4, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Be a Sign - Everyday Formation – Vincentian Prayer - Vincentian’s Clean Heart Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tuesday, July 5, 2016 Be a Sign - We, as Vincentians are a sign to others. We do not have to preach, but we must be the sign. Called as Vincentians we...
Blogging for Others
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jul 3, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media
In a little blog called "The Known Soul" I encountered this. After the distractions fade away, what are we left with? What sorts of things have we glanced past while we run around all day long? It was one evening a few weeks ago that I looked outside, and saw the...
St. Vincent, Kevin Spacey and sending the elevator back down
by John Freund, CM | Jul 2, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
An elevator goes up, goes down. People get on and off. I live in a large Vincentian community facility where at 78 I like to think I am in the mid-range age group of this community (okay maybe upper). It is no surprise that the elevator is crucial for so many of us....
Appreciative Discernment and Vincentians
by John Freund, CM | Jul 2, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
During the three weeks of the 42nd General Assembly of the Congregation of the Mission the delegates will frequently employ a method called Appreciative Discernment (AD) or appreciative inquiry (AI). The material following the definition of AD/AI is adapted from a...
White Flag Flies #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jun 30, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Army of Me's "White Flag Flies" is a haunting lyric and melody. It’s takes a soldier To live with the strife It takes a hero To lay down his life It looks like a graveyard But darling it’s ripe So let’s change the world now We’ll set it on fire...
A Vincentian View: More
by Pat Griffin, CM | Jun 29, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
A Vincentian View Fr. Patrick J. Griffin, CM “More” At the center of the Queens’ campus of St. John’s University stands the eleven year old Church of St. Thomas More. The majority of the funding for the Church came from an alumnus of the Law School, and he also...
Credible witnesses of the Gospel
by Ross Dizon | Jun 28, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus has the credible words of eternal life. We believe in him. Are we credible? Those who hear Jesus proclaim the Good News are amazed at his credible words of grace. He teaches with authority. He wants us to be credible also. The phrase “in pairs” indicates...