Pope Francis asks his monthly payer group – “Pray for an end to polarization”!
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by Jim Paddon | September 10, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
We in Canada must also face reality that we must come to terms with the issue of racism.
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | September 10, 2020 | Formation, Homelessness, Justice and Peace, Reflections | 0 Comments
“More than 95% of those who cycle through [Project HOME]… have never again returned to life on the streets— a success rate that has made the program a model for dozens of other U.S. cities.”
by Irving Gabriel Amaro Ramayo, CM | September 9, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
A Vincentian PQRST will involve: Pandemic, Questions, Reality, Salt, Transform.
by Tom McKenna, CM | September 9, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
A question often on the lips of a believer: where and how is God present in my life?
by John Freund, CM | Jul 2, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Pope Francis asks his monthly payer group – “Pray for an end to polarization”!
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jun 30, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
When Mark speaks to this endangered flock, it’s no surprise that he includes a pair of Jesus’ hope-filled parables, lessons on how things grow.
by John Freund, CM | Jun 30, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
“When you first capture the grasshopper, it jumps and jumps and jumps, trying to get out, banging its head against the lid.”
“But the longer the grasshopper’s in there, the less high it jumps, the less it tries, until finally it just sits on the bottom.
by Lynn L'Heureux | Jul 27, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Hear His Voice - Love Letters from God – Modeling Jesus - Hoarding is not a Gospel Value Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tuesday July 28, 2015 Dear Vincentian Family: Pray for the desire to experience God’s new life and a willingness to be healed and transformed....
by John Freund, CM | Jul 26, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
“Preferential Option for the Poor” is the latest reflection by Fr. Pat Griffin in his series Considering Consecrated Life Laudato Si’ has justifiably gotten a lot of attention. The emphasis in this document concerning the physical suffering of the poor because of the...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 25, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Setting Up the “Grassy Places” (John 6: 1-15), 17th Sunday To shake off some of the dust of familiarity from this very familiar scene in the Gospel (the multiplication of the loaves), let’s set it against its deeper backdrop. First off, there’s the condition of these...
by Ross Dizon | Jul 21, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), July 26, 2015 – 2 Kgs 4, 42-44; Eph 4, 1-6; Jn 6, 1-15 One body and one Spirit (Eph 4, 4) Jesus is our shepherd. We will lack nothing if we remain united to him. Jesus goes with his disciples to a foreign territory. A large...
by Lynn L'Heureux | Jul 20, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
God Blesses us Always - Take a Break - Enter the Kingdom - What Do You Need? Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Dear Vincentian Brothers and Sisters: What joy you bring to me. I love reading about the great work you do for the Vincentian...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 20, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
In a Mass in Casa Santa Marta the Pope said that to know Jesus, you have to get involved with Him. "Read what the Church tells you about Him, talk to Him in prayer and walk the street with him. Thus, will you know who this man is.’ " Blessed Rosalie Rendu, DC said she...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 20, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Patrick Griffin CM continues his series on Considering Consecrated Life with this reflection on “One Heart” “We have only one heart. . .” (Laudato Si’, Pope Francis, 24 May 2015, 92) Laudato Si’ has challenged me both to meditate and to learn. I find myself...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 19, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
“to be in this Family of Vincent and Frederick (and all its other peace-bringers) is to be influenced by this reconciling strain in the Family history”theme of being a reconciler, a bringer of peace, a person who would stand in the middle and work to bring disparate sides together.”
by John Freund, CM | Jul 17, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Mary in the Vincentian Spirituality - Griffin Mary - 12 page booklet - prepared for a mini-retreat for students in the Internal Seminary or Novitiate of the Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Mission by Fr. Patrick Griffin, CM. The main section of these...