Reflections
Lenten Examination of Conscience for Vincentians – Week 3
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.
Mothers – Lessons Mary Learned and Teaches
What do mothers do all day? They do so much! Often mothers can’t remember all the things they do for the family.
A Vincentian View: The Transfiguration – Listen
For the last years, I do not think that I have meditated on any theme more often that listening. Most recently, the line that ends the story of the Transfiguration has attracted me.
Lent: A Time for Spiritual Combat
There is a famous story of a man who allowed thorns to grow in front of his house. The people who used to visit his house mentioned it to him. But he didn’t listen to them. As the years went by the thorns grew fast and became big and it blocked the way to his house....
Is God Tired of Waiting for Us Among the Poor?
Some words stay with you for a lifetime! Sometimes front and center. Other times they sit just beneath the surface… like a quiet motor doing its job unnoticed.
Vincent, Pope Francis and the Eucharist
“Love is creative even to infinity.” Those words of St. Vincent are frequently quoted to remind us to show love to others.
Seeing What’s There (John 9:39)
How many times have you heard people use the phrase, “I finally woke up?”
Jesus – the Ultimate Bridge Builder
Over a lifetime, we each learn the stories of where we fit and don’t fit, and who are our good and bad guys.
Vincentian Lay Missionaries – Going Forth in Synodality
At this time we are readying ourselves to take part in the GREAT VINCENTIAN MISSION OF BAJO CAUCA AND LA MOJANA SUCREÑA whose theme will be: “Baptized in the Spirit to participate in building the Reign of God.”
Reveal or Conceal God’s True Face
Jesus’ food is to do the Father’s will and to finish his work. He thus keeps the true religion; he cannot but reveal God’s true face. Though we believe in God, we yet can conceal, rather than reveal, the true face of God (GS 19). And, of course, we can do so in...
Vincentian Prayer Images: Contemporary Art 19
Share your thoughts on a weekly image of St. Vincent de Paul as portrayed by a contemporary artist.
Vincentian Lent, a Pilgrimage to the Heart: A Journey Made up of Questions (Part Two of Two)
Part Two of Two of an examination of conscience, in the form of questions, which can be useful for all of us Vincentians.