Systemic change

What Can We Learn From Grasshoppers?

“When you first capture the grasshopper, it jumps and jumps and jumps, trying to get out, banging its head against the lid.”

“But the longer the grasshopper’s in there, the less high it jumps, the less it tries, until finally it just sits on the bottom.

Which Story Interests You Most?

Whose story are you most aware of? Can you recognize the interconnection of all stories? Do Vincentians have a special vocation as storytellers?

Imagine! Frederic Ozanam Addresses Congress

After viewing the presentation of Sr. Claire Sweeney, DC on Frederick Ozanam and Social Justice, I fantasized what he might say if he, like Pope Francis, were invited to address a joint session of Congress.

Is the Church a Closet?

Is the Church like a closet where we wistfully keep things from the past, a dreary chamber filled only with us, our problems and our disappointments? Then it will be impossible to recognize God’s silent and unassuming presence.

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