Am I convinced that the first and most important thing is charity, and without it nothing else makes sense?
A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Frederic Ozanam: Hope in the Future…But Working! • A Reflection with Ozanam
I believe in the progress of Christian times. I do not fear the falls and the gaps which may interrupt it: the chilly...
A Truly Christian Life • A Reflection with Ozanam
It is easier to use an uplifting language, to fulfill certain positive precepts and to reject certain pleasures, than...
Charity Knows No Limits • A Reflection with Ozanam
Ozanam says, This [social] order rests on two virtues, justice and charity, Love and charity: are they the same? How do we try to promote justice?
A Patron Saint to Imitate and Invoke • A Reflection with Ozanam
A patron saint is not, in fact, a trivial insignia for a Society, such as a St. Denis or St. Nicholas for an inn. Nor is it an honorable name under which a good impression can be made before the religious world: it is a model that we must strive to live, as he himself...
On Almsgiving (Part 3) • A Reflection with Ozanam
Part three of four on Almsgiving…a reflection on a full article by Ozanam, which is among Frederic’s most outstanding.
On Almsgiving (Part 2) • A Reflection with Ozanam
Part two of four on Almsgiving…a reflection on a full article by Ozanam, which is among Frederic’s most outstanding.
On Almsgiving (Part 1) • A Reflection with Ozanam
Over the next four weeks we are going to reflect on a full article by Ozanam, which is among Frederic’s most outstanding. On Almsgiving, Part 1.
Always on the Side of the Poor • A Reflection with Ozanam
Education is an essential aspect in promoting the poor.
Being a Father: Gift and Responsibility • A Reflection with Ozanam
I’m already a father. I am custodian and guardian of an immortal creature. I long to see her baptism, which will take place tomorrow; then I will follow, one by one, all her steps, I will see the birth of all the graces of her childhood, and when holding her, I...
Being a Christian at All Times and Places • A Reflection with Ozanam
Are you a Christian “from time to time” (maybe only at the Church, your group, community), or do you live your faith in all fields of your life?
Go to the Peripheries • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Always take care of the servants as much as of the masters, and of the workers as of the rich: that will be, in the future, the only means of salvation for the Church of France. The curés must set aside their bourgeois parish congregations, little flocks of good sheep...
