A Weekly Reflection with Vincent

“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...

“To love someone, properly speaking, is to want their good. According to this, to love Our Lord is to want His name to be known and manifested to the whole world, to let Him reign on earth, to do His will on earth as in Heaven” (SVP ES XI, 736). Vincent de...

“God also works incessantly from outside himself in the creation and preservation of this great universe, in the movements of the heavens, in the influences of the stars, in the productions of land and sea, in the nature of the atmosphere, in the regulation of...

“O Savior! O my Lord and my God! You’ve raised up a Company for this purpose; You’ve sent it to persons who are poor, and You will that it should make You known to them as the one, true God, and Jesus Christ whom You sent into the world, so that, by this means,...

“What can compare to the beauty of God, who is the source of all the beauty and perfection of creatures? Is it not from God that the flowers, the birds, the stars, the moon, and the sun derive their luster and beauty?  (SVP, vol XIII, no. 43). Vincent de Paul....

“In addition to this general work, He toils with each individual: with the craftsman in his shop, with the woman in her household, with the ant and the bee to do their collecting, and He does so constantly and continually. And why does He labor? For us, dear...

“To love God perfectly, to be swallowed up in the contemplation of His Divine Essence, His beauty, His goodness, His wisdom, and His other perfections. That’s the occupation of the saints with respect to Our Lord, who remembers the love He had to save...

“One means of doing [your service] as God wills is to do it in charity—in charity, Sisters. How excellent that will make your service! But do you know what it means to do it in charity? It’s to do it in God, for God is charity, and it’s to do it purely for God;...