Ozanam says, This [social] order rests on two virtues, justice and charity, Love and charity: are they the same? How do we try to promote justice?

by Javier F. Chento | January 11, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Part three of four on Almsgiving…a reflection on a full article by Ozanam, which is among Frederic’s most outstanding.
by Javier F. Chento | October 19, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Ozanam says, This [social] order rests on two virtues, justice and charity, Love and charity: are they the same? How do we try to promote justice?
by Javier F. Chento | December 31, 2018 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
It is important that we see in this primitive text of Ozanam the passion preserved throughout his life when defending his convictions.
by Javier F. Chento | December 24, 2018 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
That bond, God that unites family in distance, comforts Frederic, gives him “strength and courage.” Did you wish family and friends a Merry Christmas?
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 19, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
Ozanam says, This [social] order rests on two virtues, justice and charity, Love and charity: are they the same? How do we try to promote justice?
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 31, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
It is important that we see in this primitive text of Ozanam the passion preserved throughout his life when defending his convictions.
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 24, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
That bond, God that unites family in distance, comforts Frederic, gives him “strength and courage.” Did you wish family and friends a Merry Christmas?
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 17, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Do we use music, as a means of evangelization, in our group, branch, parish, etc? Should we?
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 10, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Am I convinced that the first and most important thing is charity, and without it nothing else makes sense?
by Javier F. Chento | Dec 3, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Three weeks after the birth of his daughter, Ozanam wrote this precious prayer, My Three Angels, to the Virgin Mary. It is worth reading and rereading it.
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 26, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Always take care of the servants as much as of the masters, and of the workers as of the rich: that will be, in the future, the only means of salvation for the Church of France. The curés must set aside their bourgeois parish congregations, little flocks of good sheep...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 19, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Truth has no need of me, but I do need Truth. The Cause of Christian Science, the Cause of Faith, is deep in the roots of my heart. [...] As Truth is threatened, as the letters are the battlefield in which the quarrel takes place, as the teaching occupies in it a...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 12, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Mr. Bailly [...] told me about all the tribulations that the Society [of Saint Vincent de Paul] had to suffer on the part of some ecclesiastics who sought to seize it, and, above all, on the part of a political party that wanted to exploit or disorganize it in its...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 5, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
Perhaps it is bad the alliance of Catholics with the defeated bourgeoisie; it would be better to lean on the people, who are the true ally of the Church, the people, who are poor as she is, sacrificed like her, blessed like her with all the blessings of the Savior. In...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 29, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
In a certain sense, I believe the aim we were proposing in Paris is not quite the same as that you are proposing in the province. In Paris we are birds of passage, away for some time from the paternal nest and on which unbelief, that vulture of thought, plans for its...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 22, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
I'm already a father. I am custodian and guardian of an immortal creature. I long to see her baptism, which will take place tomorrow; then I will follow, one by one, all her steps, I will see the birth of all the graces of her childhood, and when holding her, I will...