This is a ten-part study series based on Vincentian Father Corpus Delgado’s work, exploring the Vincentian charism’s profound impact on the Church’s mission, including religious life, lay involvement, and the preferential option for the poor.
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The Laity are Apostles • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Mr. Bailly [...] told me about all the tribulations that the Society [of Saint Vincent de Paul] had to suffer on the...
Young People are the Future … and the Present! • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
If it is helpful for young people to meet friends and brothers, it is essential for the Society to recruit its members...
Friends are a Second Family • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
I have the very pleasant custom to identify myself with my friends, to consider them as a second family and to surround myself with it to cover the gaps that the misfortune has caused around me. As the generation that preceded and covered us, so to speak, is falling...
The Spiritual and the Temporal • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The Truth does not fear persecutions of power and does not need its favors. You confirm this separation of the spiritual and the temporal which, in my opinion, is the only one capable of ensuring the triumph of the Church. [...] Some rely on chariots, others on...
Love is the Only Rule • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The only rule to be considered for human actions is that of love: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God above all things, and thy neighbor as thyself"; magnificent law that recognizes three principles of human actions: —the infinite love of God, immense, without limits;...
Music and Evangelization • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Do we use music, as a means of evangelization, in our group, branch, parish, etc? Should we?
God’s Mercy is Eternal • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
It is important that we see in this primitive text of Ozanam the passion preserved throughout his life when defending his convictions.
Charity as the Foundation of Faith • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The purpose of the Society is to form a group or association of mutual encouragement for young Catholics, where they can find friendship, support, example, and a substitute of the family where they have grown up ... And after that, the strongest bond: charity, that is...
Becoming Good Friends • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
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...
Doing Good Wherever We Are • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
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...
The Sin of Accumulating Goods • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
It is foolish to consume the days accumulating what is not to be enjoyed; it is madness also to pile up for the children. Children who see forming a heap of gold for themselves are strongly tempted to sit and fold their arms. To prepare a fortune for them is often to...
