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Bond with God and with Human Beings
by Ross Dizon | September 22, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Vincentian Prayer Images: St. Vincent of the Alleys
by John Freund, CM | September 22, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 1 Comment
Where and how do we today walk the back alleys of our world?
“… In Name Only”?
by John Freund, CM | September 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 4 Comments
Do we have a “cafeteria mentality” when choosing what it means to be a Catholic?
Shadow Pandemic
by Marie A. Copeland, LOC USA Advocacy Committee | September 17, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
In this time of sheltering in place as a result of COVID-19, what is happening “in the shadows” is an increase in domestic violence.
Vincentian Prayer Images: What Moved Saint Vincent? V
by John Freund, CM | Aug 3, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Vincent was “drawn into” the Sending that is always radiating out from God.
Clear and Expressed Preference for the Apostolate among the Poor
by Marta Marin, Misevi Colombia | Aug 2, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
We, the members of Misevi Colombia, are people of different ways of being.
Is the Our Father a Radical Prayer?
by John Freund, CM | Jul 30, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Jesus was a radical who was fully committed to doing God’s will. He showed us how radical he was when laid down his life for us. As he hung on the cross he said “Father, forgive them. They know not what they are doing.” Certainly the words of a radical!
The Emmaus Imagination Fr. Tom McKenna
by John Freund, CM | Apr 9, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
The Emmaus Imagination – A restructured imagination
“What is essential is invisible to the eye” (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
by Ross Dizon | Apr 8, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
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
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...