Reflections
Vincentian Prayer Images: Disciples of a “Foot washing Jesus”?
by John Freund, CM | August 25, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments
Is there enough evidence for us to be convicted of being disciples of a “foot-washing” Jesus?
Book Co-edited by FHA Coordinator Wins Award
by .famvin | August 23, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
The book Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics has been awarded the second place on 2020 Catholic Book Award in the Catholic Social Teaching category
What are God’s Plans for the Members of the Vincentian Family during this pandemic?
by Sidney Batista França | August 22, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
The world is suffering from a difficult and challenging situation. A pandemic has changed the reality of millions of people across the planet.
An Awakening to Structures that Oppress
by Sister Julie Cutter, DC | August 20, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 4 Comments
In the current context of the pandemic and the awakening to systemic racial injustice, what is the work to which God is calling us?
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Trials We Have to Go through to Be New
by Ross Dizon | Jun 15, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
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...
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Vincentian Prayer Images: Walking Through Each Day with St. Vincent XIV
by John Freund, CM | Jun 15, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
St. Vincent told the Daughters of Charity: “Make good use of the free time you have after caring for the sick. Never be idle…”
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Imagine Saying This Today!
by John Freund, CM | Jun 11, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
What is most important to you – your nation, culture, class, race, gender — or first and foremost being in God and a new and international community of God’s people?
The height of folly
by Ross Dizon | Mar 31, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
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
by John Freund, CM | Mar 26, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Successive Annunciations – Fr. Tom McKenna reflects on the many annunciations in our lives and the invitations to say “Yes”.
Dying to live forever
by Ross Dizon | Mar 24, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Palm Sunday (B), March 29, 2015 – Mk 11, 1-10 or Jn 12, 12-16; Is 50, 4-7; Phil 2, 6-11; Mk 14, 1 – 15, 47 He humbled himself, becoming obedient to death (Phil 2, 8) Jesus does not come down from the cross to save himself. He thus opens for us the way of salvation....
Drawing power
by Ross Dizon | Mar 18, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Fifth Sunday of Lent (B), March 22, 2015 – Jer 31, 31-34; Heb 5, 7-9; Jn 12, 20-33 He learned obedience from what he suffered (Heb 5, 8) Lifted up from the earth, Jesus seals a new pact. The Lord promises a new covenant. It will not be like that of Sinai, which was...
Falling back and springing forward
by Ross Dizon | Mar 10, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Fourth Sunday of Lent (B), March 15, 2015 – 2 Chon 36, 14-16. 19-23; Eph 2, 4-10; Jn 3, 14-21 By grace you have been saved through faith (Eph 2, 8) Jesus crucified bears out that where sin increases, grace overflows all the more. Salvation history is, in summary, the...
He nails it
by Ross Dizon | Mar 3, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Third Sunday of Lent (B), March 8, 2015 – Ex 20, 1-17; 1 Cor 1, 22-25; Jn 2, 13-25 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom (1 Cor 1, 22) Jesus is doing something new that is already perceivable. We must fix our gaze on it, no longer remembering the events of the...
Nothing but the full truth
by Ross Dizon | Feb 24, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Second Sunday of Lent (B), March 1, 2015 – Gen 22, 1-2. 9a. 10-13. 15-18; Rom 8, 31b-34; Mk 9, 2-10 He handed him over for us all (Rom 8, 32) Jesus is the fullness of revelation. He transforms into his glorious image the hearers and doers of his word, willing even to...
Griffin – Considering Consecrated Life “Lenten Observance
by John Freund, CM | Feb 23, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Two liturgical events during the Christian year stir me. Both transpire during the time of Lent and lead to my observations.
60 Seconds with Sister Julie Kubasak, DC
by John Freund, CM | Feb 20, 2015 | Daughters of Charity, Formation, Reflections
How Julie Kubasak went from friend to Sister