Reflections

John 3:16 – Read It!

by Tom McKenna, CM | April 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments

If you’ve watched any sports events over the last decades, you’ve seen banners held high, calling attention to a famous passage in John’s Gospel.

Easter People in a Good Friday/Holy Saturday World?

by John Freund, CM | April 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Some 60 years ago, I remember being struck by a question still relevant today. A great theologian, Johannes Hoffinger, asked: “if we are Easter People, why do we so often look like people in need of an aspirin?”

Through the Darkness to Easter Light with Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

by Lisa Lickona | April 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

The example of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton shows us how to yield our lives to Christ, the Crucified One, that we might live.

Contemplation: Seeking His Will Together – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection

by Tim Williams | April 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments

This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org “Life,” the old saying goes, “is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” There is a deeper truth captured in this witticism, one that St. Vincent often repeated. It is not that we should make no plans and...

Learning To “Mercy” Is Like Learning To Walk

by John Freund, CM | Apr 10, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

Do you remember learning to walk? Perhaps not. Yet, we were all once little children.

Contemplation: Happy Travelers – SSVP USA, a Weekly Reflection

by Tim Williams | Apr 9, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul

This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Our Vincentian formation, we are taught, is a lifelong process of...

Catch the Good News of Jesus Christ

by Ross Dizon | Apr 9, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

The one who has risen is the same Jesus of Nazareth that the disciples have known, loved and followed on the roads of...

Vincentian Prayer Images – Art By Vincentians 46

by Famvin Media Resources | Mar 5, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

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

New Wine, New Wineskins

by Mary Frances Jaster | Mar 4, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

We have a new baby in our family. Jacob is just two weeks old, and he has captured me in a surprising way. Why am I so surprised?

Firewood for the Soul: Are we the Innkeepers?

by Samantha Hill | Mar 4, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.

Living Lent in the “School of the Poor”

by Girolamo Grammatico | Mar 3, 2024 | Congregation of the Mission, Reflections

“Vincentian Lent” invites us to an inner journey of questions and reflections, placing humility and the preferential option for the poor at the center.

Lenten Letter Group Reflection – Part 2

by Famvin Media Resources | Mar 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

Reflection for groups, on the Lenten Letter 2024 from Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, to the Vincentian Family. Part Two: Personal Experience of Eucharistic Adoration.

The Social Scale is No More • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent

by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Mar 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

"When this great God created us with the plan to require of us that pleasant duty of loving Him and this honorable tribute, he willed to place in us the seed of love, which is our resemblance to Him, so that we may not excuse ourselves, saying that we don't have the...

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