Reflections
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?
The Paths To Homelessness
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | August 20, 2020 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections | 1 Comment
Do homeless people choose to be homeless? There are many valid reasons for choosing shelters and even the streets over home— if there is a home at all.
Lessons Learned During the Pandemic, #8: Focus on Important Things and Put Aside Those that are Merely Accessories
by Vicente Hernández & Inmaculada Escribano | August 19, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
During this pandemic, we are learning not to lose sight of the risks and our absolute dependence on God, to make the most of each day that we live, and that we use these days to share more love with our family members as well as those outside our family circle … to dispense with which is not important.
A Vincentian View: The Power of Love
by Pat Griffin, CM | August 19, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
Our Gospel story emphasizes the power of love. Within the Scriptures, the passages that speak of God’s love are numerous, as are those that celebrate human love.
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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?
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Call to Action to Address Systemic Racism
by Vincentian Family Social Justice Advocates in North America | Jun 10, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
We are a group of Vincentian Family social justice advocates from Canada and the United States collaborating together to hear and respond to the cries of our Common Home, Earth, and her peoples. We especially choose to address systemic racism and our complicity in it.
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Are the homeless to blame for their homelessness?
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | Jun 10, 2021 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections
We must debunk the myths around why people become homeless so we can move toward solutions. Most never stop to put themselves in the shoes of the people they see suffering from homelessness.
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
Would a Missionary give up Swahili (Facebook) for Lent?
by John Freund, CM | Feb 19, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
What’s the first thing a missionary does? Learn the language. This is the language of the world we live. I’m sorry if you don’t like it. You could go “okay, I don’t like Swahili.”
Stir into flame… Tom McKenna CM
by John Freund, CM | Feb 19, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
The “Stir Into Flame” is from 2 Timothy 1: 1-8 — plays on Paul’s line here, and also Vincent’s “If love is a fire, then zeal is its flame.”
The lure of the desert
by Ross Dizon | Feb 17, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
First Sunday of Lent (B), February 22, 2015 – Gen 9, 8-15; 1 Pt 3, 18-22; Mk 1, 12-15 An appeal to God for a clear conscience (1 Pt 3, 21) Driven into the desert by the same Spirit that descended on him at the Jordan, Jesus is revealed as the leader of the new exodus....
How do you Sisters do it!
by John Freund, CM | Feb 16, 2015 | Formation, Reflections, Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
When one looks at what dedicated women religious have done in health care, educationand in general, going to the peripheries” the question naturally arises. So just how do sisters keep writing “new chapters” in their lives?
Who’s in the “New Family”
by John Freund, CM | Feb 14, 2015 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Father Tom McKenna, CM reflects on Who’s In The “New Family”?
“I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame” (Job 29:15)
by John Freund, CM | Feb 11, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
“I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame” (Job 29:15) – Pope Francis reminds us “Time spent with the sick is holy time ”
Blessed curse
by Ross Dizon | Feb 10, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), February 15, 2015 – Lev 13, 1-2. 45-46; 1 Cor 10, 31 – 11, 1; Mk 1, 40-45 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ (1 Cor 11, 1) Jesus bears our infirmities and endures our sufferings. His true followers follow his example. A leper...
“Islands of mercy in the midst of the sea of indifference”
by Ross Dizon | Feb 3, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), February 8, 2015 – Job 7, 1-4. 6-7; 1 Cor 9, 16-19. 22-23; Mk 1, 29-39 To the weak I became weak (1 Cor 9, 22) Jesus says to those of us who, like the anguished Job, bemoan our miseries in this valley of tears: “Come to me, all you...