If it is helpful for young people to meet friends and brothers, it is essential for the Society to recruit its members...

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 | Jul 16, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
If it is helpful for young people to meet friends and brothers, it is essential for the Society to recruit its members...
by Javier F. Chento | Jul 9, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
A patron saint is not, in fact, a trivial insignia for a Society, such as a St. Denis or St. Nicholas for an inn. Nor...
by Javier F. Chento | Jul 2, 2018 | Formation, Reflections
The only rule to be considered for human actions is that of love: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God above all things,...
by Javier F. Chento | Aug 14, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
I do not like and do not share in any way the rigorist doctrines of some Christians, who, without even realizing it, have in these matters the arrogance and false Protestant modesty, and are far from the true spirit of faith. The innocent joys were never proscribed....
by Javier F. Chento | Aug 7, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
We are convinced that the science of charitable reforms is not learned in the books or in the tribunes of the public assemblies, but by going up to the hovels of the poor, sitting at their bedhead, suffering the cold they suffer, getting, with the outpouring of a...
by Javier F. Chento | Jul 3, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
We are, all of us, like the weavers of the Gobelins, who, following out the pattern of an unknown artist, endeavor to match the threads of divers colors on the wrong side of the woof, and do not see the result of their labor. It is only when the texture is complete...
by Javier F. Chento | Jun 26, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
What a moment was that, when I heard the last cry of my beloved wife and the first cry of my daughter, when I saw that creature, small but immortal, that God put in my hands, that made me feel great tenderness and also so many obligations! With what impatience I...