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Jesus makes known what it means to love God and the neighbor not in word and speech, but in deed and truth. Vincent de Paul is ordained priest, which suggests, of course, that he says “yes” to God. In other words, he means to love God and neighbor, and to serve them....
The New Testament’s question of questions: “Who do you say I am?”
Jesus makes known how good God is in a free and unfathomable way. It is hard for us to grasp what he lets us know. For it is beyond what we usually see and hear in the world. We hear that God’s ways and thoughts are beyond our human ways and thoughts. That is why...
Sometimes someone says something to us about us that finds a firm place in our thinking. It need not be something brilliant or even insightful, but when we hear it, we know that it is true and it sticks. It becomes part of how we think about ourselves and how we give ourselves guidance and encouragement and energy.
The patient work of an artisan offers a powerful image of the spiritual life: transformation takes time, grace requires cooperation, and beauty can emerge from imperfection. As artisans of peace and hope, we are invited to sit at the feet of Jesus, the Master Artisan, allowing Him to shape our hearts and lead us into new paths of charity and mission.
Jesus is God’s compassion made flesh. Hence, we Christians are to be compassionate and to forgive those who sin against us. Peter is already generous as he suggests that we have to forgive up to seven times a brother who sins. But Jesus goes further than such...
Over the years, how many threshold moments have we Vincentians faced? Inside what thresholds might we be standing in the present day?
Jesus laid down his life for us, and he thus made known to us love. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. In that way, we pay the debt that we owe him. We owe Jesus a huge debt. For he loved us to the end, to the point of giving up his...
Jesus’ questions to his disciples—“Who do people say that I am?” and “Who do you say that I am?”—offer a powerful framework for Christian education. Learning becomes more than acquiring knowledge: it becomes a journey toward understanding Christ more deeply and allowing that encounter to shape faith, choices, and daily life.
