I never used to think about Lent until Ash Wednesday and the ritual of receiving ashes. My earliest recollection of Lent is that I wanted it to be over.
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by John Freund, CM | February 23, 2022 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
I never used to think about Lent until Ash Wednesday and the ritual of receiving ashes. My earliest recollection of Lent is that I wanted it to be over.
by John Freund, CM | December 22, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 1 Comment
Sometimes it seems that everybody wants to change our way of thinking.
by John Freund, CM | December 15, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 0 Comments
When I was growing up there was a wonderful series on that still new medium … television.
by John Freund, CM | December 8, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change | 2 Comments
Compassion literally means “to suffer together.”
by John Freund, CM | Feb 23, 2022 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
I never used to think about Lent until Ash Wednesday and the ritual of receiving ashes. My earliest recollection of Lent is that I wanted it to be over.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 22, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
Sometimes it seems that everybody wants to change our way of thinking.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 15, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
When I was growing up there was a wonderful series on that still new medium … television.
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 1, 2021 | News, Systemic change
According to a report of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 2,500 million tons of food are thrown into the garbage.
by John Freund, CM | Oct 27, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
Oprah Winfrey got me thinking with two questions.
by John Freund, CM | Oct 20, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
You all know what a scrapbook is. It is not about throwing away scraps. It is about keeping memories alive.
by John Freund, CM | Oct 13, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
It is obvious that we are not living in the same church as we were some 50 years ago. How obvious depends on whether you are 60, 40, or 20,
by John Freund, CM | Oct 6, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
When St. Paul asks us to “put on the mind of Christ” he has much more in mind than mouthing Jesus’ words.
by John Freund, CM | Sep 29, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
The tribal wisdom of the American Indians says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
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.