You probably know more saints than you think!
Reflections
Gospel Steadiness (Luke 24)
Anyone who regularly prays the rosary knows the experience of repetition. In the course of fingering the beads through five decades, you’ll have recited the same prayer, the Hail Mary, over 50 times.
Halloween, and What Christians Celebrate
Christians don’t celebrate death on Halloween… We celebrate Life on the feast of All Saints and remember all the good people who have passed on to live with Jesus.
Firewood for the Soul: St Vincent de Paul
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
Useless Servants • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
We are useless servants: such is the testimony that must give those who unite to serve God and men. [...] Not to show ourselves, but let us to be seen: such could be our formula and is, more or less, among the maxims of a great apostle of charity, Saint Francis de...
Eyes and a Heart Directed toward the Poor
Jesus makes clear what it means to have eyes and a heart for those who are poor. Those who follow him are to have eyes and a heart for them also.
Do You Remember Many Sermons?
Most visitors to Vincentian Mindwalk have heard anywhere from hundreds to literally thousands of sermons. Opps, I mean homilies!
Letter from Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, on the Occasion of the Feast of St. Vincent de Paul 2024
As usual at this time, Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, President of the Executive Board of the Vincentian Family, has sent a reflection to the entire Vincentian Family on the occasion of the feast of Saint Vincent de Paul on September 27.
Modeling Virtue
One of the occupational hazards of people who study religion and theology is to equate ideas with the force behind them.
Are All Really Welcome?
We are many decades into the phenomenon of shopping for “gated communities” of like-minded people. So many do not experience that they are welcome.
Ambitions that Are Selfish and Unfettered
Christ on the cross is the last of all and the servant of all. He puts to shame all those with ambitions to be the first and the greatest. Like most of us, the disciples of Jesus, for sure, have their ambitions. After all, they, too, have the right to be better....
Firewood for the Soul: A Spirit of Solidarity
A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.
