Frederic placed every aspect of his life in the hands of God, including his uncertainty with regard to the future.

by Javier F. Chento | February 15, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam | 0 Comments
by Javier F. Chento | February 8, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam | 0 Comments
Frederic placed every aspect of his life in the hands of God, including his uncertainty with regard to the future.
by Javier F. Chento | February 1, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam | 1 Comment
As in the days of Frederic, more than 150 years ago, our society is suffering a turbulent period of crisis and wars that discourage us.
by Javier F. Chento | January 25, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam | 0 Comments
Let us put aside our repugnancies and resentments in order to return to that democracy, to that people who do not know us.
by Javier F. Chento | Feb 8, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Frederic placed every aspect of his life in the hands of God, including his uncertainty with regard to the future.
by Javier F. Chento | Feb 1, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
As in the days of Frederic, more than 150 years ago, our society is suffering a turbulent period of crisis and wars that discourage us.
by Javier F. Chento | Jan 25, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Let us put aside our repugnancies and resentments in order to return to that democracy, to that people who do not know us.
by Javier F. Chento | Jan 18, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
You have accustomed us to look upon you as the meeting point, the counselor and the friend of the young Christians; your past goodness has given us the right to count on your future goodness; those you have had with me make me expect similar ones for my friends....
by Javier F. Chento | Jan 11, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
There are many good intentions, many generous inspirations, few resolutions, and still less perseverance.
by Javier F. Chento | Jan 4, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
It's time to share and retrieve our good; I mean: the old and popular ideas of justice, charity, fraternity. It's time to show that we can defend the cause of the proletariat, engage in relief classes suffering, and pursue the abolition of pauperism, without agreeing...
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 28, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
And we, dear friend, do we bear no resemblance to those saints we love, do we content ourselves with deploring the sterility of the present time, although each of us carries within his heart a seed of sanctity that the simple wishing will suffice to disclose. If we do...
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 21, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
That bond, God that unites family in distance, comforts Frederic, gives him “strength and courage.” Did you wish family and friends a Merry Christmas?
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 14, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Help is humiliating when it appeals to men from below, taking heed of their material wants only, paying no attention but to those of the flesh, to the cry of hunger and cold, to what excites pity, to what one succors even in the beasts. [...] It humiliates when there...
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 7, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
[The conferences] are blooming in Livorno and in Pisa, they begin to prosper in Florence, in Pontadera, they settle in Prato, and soon in Volterra and in Porto Ferraio. Very soon there will be seven families of Saint Vincent de Paul in this Tuscan country in which...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 30, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
At the same time, another thirty conferences formed in the most distant points of the country, celebrated the same solemnity. How can we not have any hope in that force of association, exerted mainly in the big cities, in all the faculties of Law, in all the centers...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 23, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
May God preserve us in the simplicity of our beginnings, and St. Vincent de Paul will recognize us as his disciples, if we maintain that character. Frederic Ozanam, to the General Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, July 10, 1953. Reflection: In 1853,...