Reflections
Lenten Examination of Conscience for Vincentians – Week 5
Each Friday of Lent we will share a different guide to help examine your conscience based on different aspects of our lives as members of the Vincentian Family.
Mary’s Magnificat and God’s Dangerous Dream
This title of Mary Mother of the Church takes us beyond the magnificent privilege of her being chosen as the mother of Jesus.
The Northern Missions
The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Halifax served in the northern missions of Canada in cities, towns and villages.
The Eucharistic Life
In the year 1264 at the request of Pope Urban, St. Thomas Aquinas composed a beautiful hymn for the feast of Corpus Christi. The hymn is very familiar to us and it continues to inspire us to love and adore the Eucharist. The first verse says: “I adore you by...
Clarifying Approaches • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"No, Monsieur, neither philosophy, nor theology, nor discourses can act in souls; Jesus Christ must be involved in this with us —or we with Him— so that we may act in Him and He in us, that we may speak as He did and in His Spirit, as He himself was in His Father, and...
The Pope Video • For a Eucharistic life
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: For a Eucharistic Life.
Do These Images Speak To Polarization Today?
Two images, in particular, remind me of the limitations of what I see. They are helping me be more humble when I think of my conversations with those who do not view things the way I do.
Receiving Me (2 Kings,4; Mt 10:40)
Two agitated men, just coming from a disastrous happening, were walking down a country road and pouring out their shared troubles. Each was focused on his own grief, but each was also was taking in the pain of the other.
Do Mothers Have Favorites?
Do mothers have favorites? It depends on who you ask! Here I explore whether God has favorite children.
Optimists, for They Rely on the Word
Jesus is at once the Good News of the kingdom and he that preaches it. He wants us to be optimists, preaching with him bountifully, not sparingly.
Prudence
In the Bible, the First Book of Kings chapter three and four speaks about King Solomon and the greatness of his rule. He had a strong administrative structure. The army was also very strong and he was sovereign over all other neighboring kingdoms. During his rule we...
Acting from Jesus Christ • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"Something else to which you must pay very close attention is to be very dependent on the guidance of the Son of God; I mean that, when you have to take action, you should make this reflection: ‘Is this in conformity with the maxims of the Son of God?’ If you see that...