Reflections

A Vincentian View: Bearing the Marks of Jesus

The last paragraph of Paul’s letter to the Galatians begins with an eye-catching line.  It would literally be so if we could see the original text.

Contemplation: No Member Above Another

Servant leadership, inspired by Jesus and embraced by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, calls leaders to serve humbly rather than command. True Vincentian leadership comes from shared commitment, humility, and active involvement with the poor.

Better and More than Other Things

Jesus has the words of life, and his flesh is true food and his blood true drink.  To go to him is better and worth more than all things. It is better and more honest to say from the start what the text on Martha and Mary is about.  To do so is to be fair to Luke...

THE Question (Mt 16: 13-19)

There are questions and there are QUESTIONS. How about the life-altering one Jesus puts to Peter in Matthew’s gospel?

#IamVincent: Baptism and Charity

#IamVincent: Baptism and Charity

The relationship of Baptism and Lent is something every Vincentian ought to contemplate. For most of us, Lent has been a time of repentance. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults calls it “The period of purification and enlightenment.” This time… customarily...

Hearing The Word in Pressured Times

Hearing The Word in Pressured Times

Hearing The Word in Pressured Times       (Lk. 5:1-11) Here are some things to note in this Gospel about Jesus getting himself involved in a fishing expedition with Peter and his friends. For one thing, there’s Peter’s state of mind. He’s exhausted. All night on the...

Manifestations, Revelations, Apparitions

Near to us is the saving Word of God

Jesus is near us so that he may save us who cry out to him and call on his name. No one is more near to us than Jesus, the Word made flesh and dwelling among us. He is “God-with-us.” He is near us in many ways. He is within our reach in the least of his brothers and...

Abraham’s Tent on Vincentian Campuses

Abraham’s Tent on Vincentian Campuses

The call to erect "Abraham's tent" on Vincentian campuses is an unrecognized opportunity for conversion, evangelization and mutual dialogue. In “Hospitality on a Vincentian Campus: Welcoming the Stranger Outside Our Tent,” a forthcoming article in Vincentian Heritage,...

God’s Family

God’s Family

God's Family - Faith to Spread the Light of Christ - Worth Every Penny - Open My Eyes Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tuesday February 9, 2016 Vincentian Family:  Please pray for one another and those we serve. Your work is important and cannot be done well...

Who am I? Who loves me?

Who am I? Who loves me?

Who am I? Who loves me? These are some of the questions that Sr. Janet Gildea, SC asks in "Getting a Life This Lent." E-Voc is the electronic newsletter from the Vocation Team of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati for single women wondering what new thing God is...

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