This reflection started out as a reflection on Catechetical Sunday but wandered off into a reflection on the mind of Christ. I finally came full circle and thought of catechesis as helping someone put on the mind of Christ.
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by John Freund, CM | August 18, 2021 | Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
Thinking about the Vincentian Movement as being rooted in an awareness of God’s love which radiates out in widening circles.
by John Freund, CM | August 11, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
Parents learn quickly the power of story as a pacifier. But the stories also shape values. Stories and the lived stories of our example are how we learn our values. Jesus knew the power of stories! Do you really want to change things? Tell a story!
by John Freund, CM | August 4, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 1 Comment
Transfiguration – Disfiguration. We have a choice. Which light will we walk in?
by John Freund, CM | July 28, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
No matter what era or even whether we went to a Catholic school, I suspect the teachers we remember most favorably were the ones who taught us to think.
by John Freund, CM | Sep 22, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
This reflection started out as a reflection on Catechetical Sunday but wandered off into a reflection on the mind of Christ. I finally came full circle and thought of catechesis as helping someone put on the mind of Christ.
by John Freund, CM | Sep 15, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Systemic change
Pope Francis calls us to “build a better kind of politics”. The USCCB suggest almost a “12 step program” for building community as envisaged when we truly commit to what we pray for in the “Our Father.”
by John Freund, CM | Sep 8, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
Me-ism! A lens to understand our world, church… and the three year “synodal process” beginning October 2021.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 9, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
An image each Vincentian should consider! It is a simple image of people imperiled by a river flooding out of control. Read on to learn how a Franciscan uses that image to explore various approaches to saving people.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 2, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
A baby changes everything. Never was that truer than in the birth of the one we call Jesus of Nazareth. The birth of Jesus literally changed everything for everyone.
by John Freund, CM | Nov 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
St. Vincent instinctively realized the role of laypersons in bringing about systemic change.
by John Freund, CM | Nov 11, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
A recent voter reflects on one of the most dangerous passages of the New Testament. – the parable of the Good Samaritan.
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | Nov 5, 2020 | Collaboration, Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Reflections, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Vincent and Louise de Marillac were deeply committed to the education and moral formation of young people living on the streets or in dire conditions.
by John Freund, CM | Nov 4, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
A video insight into the concept of systemic change as breaking the cycles of poverty.
by John Freund, CM | Oct 28, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change
Together, let us join in prayer each day for peaceful and just elections using this prayer and reflection.
by John Freund, CM | Oct 21, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
When St. Vincent asked “What must be done?” he looked beyond what was always done. Is there a better way of doing what we have always done?
by John Freund, CM | Oct 14, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
“I would like to invite you to go on a journey together… I am calling it a journey because it requires a shift, a change.” Pope Francis