A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
Wanting their Good, and Letting Ourselves be Loved • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"To love someone, properly speaking, is to want their good. According to this, to love Our Lord is to want His name to...
From Your Prodigious Mind this Whole World Was Made … • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"God also works incessantly from outside himself in the creation and preservation of this great universe, in the...
The Poor and Quality of Life • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"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,...
Three Virtues to Give Ourselves to God • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"One thing you may find very helpful is to call to mind the virtues of your Sisters who have died, which were very great; and I have no doubt that there are several saints among them. You’ll find in them the marks of the true spirit of the Daughter of Charity. Try to...
Affective and Effective Work (Love) • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"There are among you some Sisters who really love God, who experience great sweetness in prayer, great pleasure in all their spiritual exercises, great consolation in frequenting the sacraments, and experience no inner conflict, because of their love of God, who...
Servants of the Poor • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"Mon Dieu! What a lovely title and what a beautiful designation! What have you done for God to deserve it? Servants of the Poor is the same as saying Servants of Jesus Christ, since He regards what is done to them as done to himself, for they are His members. And what...
Simple, Not Hidden • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"Another thing that recommends simplicity to us in a wonderful way are those words of Our Lord: 'I confess to you, Father, because you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to little ones.' I acknowledge this, Father, and thank You...
Simplicity and Humility in our Preaching and in our Life • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"God is with the simple and humble; He assists them, blesses their work, blesses their undertakings. Quoi! Are we to believe that God will help a person who’s trying to ruin himself? That He’ll help a man ruin himself, as do those who preach other than humbly and...
Six Virtues to Grow as a Vincentian • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"All Christians are bound to practice these virtues, Sisters, but Daughters of Charity are obliged to practice them in a special way. 'But, Monsieur, you’ll say to me, don’t we have to practice all the other virtues?' Yes, you do, but you have to practice these three...
Knowing How To Ask In Order To Learn How To Give • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"Savior of our souls, these are Your teachings we are embracing, and the devil is trying to make us abandon them. My Savior, it's to Your advantage for us to be the victors, since we are fighting against Your enemy. Come to our aid. We protest that we'll take up arms...
Preaching with Simplicity • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"How did the Apostles preach? Very plainly, simply, and familiarly. That’s our style of preaching, too: plainly and familiarly in ordinary language. To preach like an Apostle, Messieurs, that is to preach well and in a helpful way, you have to approach it with...
Lastly… Simplicity! • A Weekly Reflection with Vincent
"I’m well aware that people think of simplicity in general as truth or purity of intention: truth, because it sees that our thoughts conform to the words and other signs by which we express them; purity of intention, because it makes all our acts of virtue tend...