Reflections

A Closer Walk (John 2:13-25)

by Tom McKenna, CM | March 20, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Early in St. John’s gospel, we see Jesus resolutely striding into the outer courtyard of the Jerusalem Temple, a space bordering on what the Jewish people acknowledged to be God’s own Dwelling place.

“Real Families”

by John Freund, CM | March 20, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

In my active years of helping families, I often heard two seemingly contradictory thoughts about parents in “real families.”

Contemplation: A Friend of a Friend – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection

by Tim Williams | March 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments

This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Have you ever had a friend with very different interests than your own? Maybe he was a big baseball fan, and you just didn’t follow that sport, or he had a great appreciation for art, but you couldn’t stand museums. How did...

Deny, Slap, Beat, Crucify Jesus

by Ross Dizon | March 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment

Jesus, in life and in death, is one with those who are poor, who have no power, whom others cast out. Hence, we cannot but deny him if we turn our backs on them. We read that many give false witness against Jesus before the Sanhedrin but that they do not agree in what...

A Vincentian View: The Good Shepherd

by Pat Griffin, CM | Apr 24, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

In the 23rd Psalm, the psalmist proclaims, “My shepherd is the Lord.” I imagine that when Jesus prayed these words, he found a depiction of himself.

Mother Theresa and her “call within a call”

by John Freund, CM | Apr 24, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

In 1946, during a train ride from Calcutta to Darjeeling, Mother Teresa received what she called, “the call within a call.” The Lord asked her to begin a new religious community that would live and work with the poorest of the poor.

Contemplation: Chosen From All Eternity – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection

by Tim Williams | Apr 23, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul

This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Virtue, our catechism teaches, is a “habitual and firm disposition to do...

A Vincentian View: Be Vincentian, Be a Listener

by Pat Griffin, CM | Sep 27, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Each year at St. John’s University we celebrate Founder’s Week from September 20-27.

Have You Tried Praying the News?

by John Freund, CM | Sep 27, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Have you heard the expression “Pray with the bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other?”

Doubt the Quick “Yes” that We Say

by Ross Dizon | Sep 26, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus is the firstborn from among those who do what is true and come to the light, so that there is no doubt that their works are just. No doubt, we have to love in deed and truth. The second son in the parable says “yes,” but he does not do what the father asks. No...

Vincentian Prayer Images – Art By Vincentians 23

by Famvin Media Resources | Sep 26, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Share your thoughts on a weekly image of artwork made by members of the Vincentian Family.

Commit to the Poor of Flesh and Blood

by Ross Dizon | Sep 24, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus goes about doing good; he loves in deed and truth. He does not just commit to an ideology. St. Vincent is like him. St. Vincent wants those who follow him to commit with zeal to those who are poor (SV.FR XI:133-137). And it seems that he himself cannot but...

Simplicity In Our Living • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent

by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Sep 23, 2023 | Formation, Reflections

"I’m well aware that people think of simplicity in general as truth or purity of intention: truth, because it sees that our thoughts conform to the words and other signs by which we express them; purity of intention, because it makes all our acts of virtue tend...