After viewing the presentation of Sr. Claire Sweeney, DC on Frederick Ozanam and Social Justice, I fantasized what he might say if he, like Pope Francis, were invited to address a joint session of Congress.
Reflections
Trials We Have to Go through to Be New
Jesus dies for us so that we may live for him and in him. To live so means to go through trials and thus get to be a...
Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent XIV
St. Vincent told the Daughters of Charity: “Make good use of the free time you have after caring for the sick. Never be idle…”
Not your usual fertility center
Fifth Sunday of Easter (B), May 3, 2015 – Acts 9, 26-31; 1 Jn 3, 18-24; Jn 15, 1-8 Let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth (1 Jn 3, 18) Jesus guarantees fruitfulness to those who believe and remain in him. Calling himself the true vine, Jesus makes his...
Vincentian Consecrated Life sight and sound
Prayerful sight and sound reflections on Vincentian Consecrated Life
Apple not falling far from the tree
Fourth Sunday of Easter (B), April 26, 2015 – Acts 4, 8-12; 1 Jn 3, 1-2; Jn 10, 11-18 We shall be like him (1 Jn 3, 2) There is no salvation except in the name of Jesus. He saves us by laying down his life for us. His name is synonymous with simplicity, humility,...
Truly necessary sin
Third Sunday of Easter (B), April 19, 2015 – Acts 3, 13-15. 17-19; 1 Jn 2, 1-5a; Lk 24, 35-48 We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ (1 Jn 2, 1) The risen Jesus is the invitation to sinners to believe in the God who writes straight with crooked lines....
14 Stations after the resurrection?
14 Stations after the resurrection?
The Emmaus Imagination Fr. Tom McKenna
The Emmaus Imagination – A restructured imagination
“What is essential is invisible to the eye” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Second Sunday of Easter (B), April 12, 2015 – Acts 4, 32-35; 1 Jn 5, 1-6; Jn 20, 19-31 Whoever is begotten by God conquers the world (1 Jn 5, 4) The risen Jesus penetrates our blindness, breaks through our deafness, overcomes our defenses and allays our fears, so that...
The height of folly
Easter Sunday (B), April 5, 2015 – Acts 10, 34a. 37-43; Col 3, 1-4 or 1 Cor 5, 6b-8; Jn 20, 1-9 God raised him on the third day (Acts 10, 40) In the risen Jesus is the foolishness of the cross exalted. By the Lord has this been done! By grace Peter and the beloved...
Successive Annunciations – Fr. Tom McKenna
Successive Annunciations – Fr. Tom McKenna reflects on the many annunciations in our lives and the invitations to say “Yes”.
