Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

Songs with a Vincentian Flavor: “On this Night, Love Comes to the Poor”

by .famvin | December 5, 2025 | Featured, Formation, Media, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice | 0 Comments

Want to learn a new Christmas carol with a Vincentian flavor? Hop in! On a cold night, Christ is born in a humble manger as angels sing and shepherds rush to meet Him. We Vincentians follow His light into the streets, bringing warmth and hope to the poor, and in every act of love, He is born anew among us.

Songs with a Vincentian Flavor: “We are the Present and the Future”

by .famvin | November 29, 2025 | Featured, Formation, Media, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice | 0 Comments

Young people today live with sharp awareness: they see inequality firsthand, they feel the weight of exclusion, and they refuse to settle for a future shaped by indifference. Yet what rises from the song is not despair, but a fierce, hopeful energy—a conviction that compassion still changes things, that love remains a revolutionary force.

Songs with a Vincentian Flavor: “Mary, Faithful Witness”

by .famvin | November 23, 2025 | Featured, Formation, Media, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice | 0 Comments

In a world marked by anxiety, confusion, and isolation, Mary is a quiet, steady presence who strengthens weary hearts. Her gentle companionship invites trust, slow healing, and renewed purpose. Through her tender guidance, fear softens, resilience grows, and fragmented lives rediscover compassion and hope.

The Prophetic Dimension of the Vincentian Charism • Part 8 • Vincent and Louise – A Lived and Living Vision

by John Freund, CM | November 5, 2025 | Formation, Media, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice | 0 Comments

St. Vincent and St. Louise lived an integral evangelization approach well before the phrase became part of the body of doctrine known as the social doctrine of the Church.

The Poor are Our Lords and Masters – Living a Faith of Reverence and Relationship Based on the Example of Frederic Ozanam

by .famvin | Apr 21, 2025 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

Frederic Ozanam, a layman of profound Christian maturity, challenges us to go beyond transactional charity. He teaches us to meet Christ in the poor—not metaphorically, but truly. And not as benefactors looking down, but as disciples looking up to their teachers, their “lords and masters.”

Faith and Public Life – A Vincentian Call to Engagement Based on the Example of Frederic Ozanam

by .famvin | Apr 20, 2025 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

This reflection explores how Frederic Ozanam, a layman deeply involved in the social and political challenges of 19th-century France, offers us a compelling example of what it means to live our faith in public—intelligently, humbly, and courageously.

The Immaculate Conception: Vincentian Perspectives

by Famvin Media Resources | Dec 8, 2023 | Church, Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

The presence of Mary is abundant, clear and solid in the experience of St. Louise and St. Vincent.

Mercy as the way for the members of the Oyugis Integrated Project in Kenya

by Javier F. Chento | Jan 1, 2019 | Brothers CMM, Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

The word “Mercy” is very dear to us as employees of Oyugis Integrated Project (OIP). Why? Because mercy is seen as bringing life to those situations where all seems hopeless. Mercy is God’s gift to us and in turn, we are exhorted to share that gift with others. Mercy...

Elizabeth Seton: A Spirituality for Mission

by Famvin Media Resources | Dec 30, 2018 | Formation, Media, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

A SlideShare presentation based on an article by Sr. Gertrude Foley, S.C. looks at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s “spirituality for mission”… a guide for present-day Vincentians to avoid some of the ways that we block our own effectiveness as servants of God.

Mary’s Digital Home “Liked” By Almost 3 Million People

by John Freund, CM | Dec 8, 2018 | Evangelization, Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

Do you know the address of the Facebook page that has been “liked” by 2.9 million people?

My New Way of Entering Into Advent Expectation

by John Freund, CM | Dec 7, 2018 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Systemic change

This year my image of Advent is an image of expectant parents excitedly seeking, and rejoicing in, the evidence of life stirring in a womb of God’s people.

What I Learned From a Funeral Homily

by John Freund, CM | Nov 9, 2018 | Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Vincentian Family

When God has other ideas do we follow them?

Some Things We Can All Agree On!

by John Freund, CM | Oct 31, 2018 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Systemic change

We pray in thanksgiving for the privilege and responsibility of being able to organize as individuals politically. We pray that each of us, as citizens, feel compelled to exercise our right and responsibility to vote…

This is the Layperson’s Hour – Pope Francis and Thomas Judge, C.M.

by John Freund, CM | Oct 20, 2018 | Formation, Pope, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice

Although he was somewhat controversial in his day, today the Eastern Province of the Congregation of the Mission is proud of its son, Fr. Thomas Judge.