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Being on the Side of the Workers • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | June 22, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Of course, the districts of Saint-Jacques and of Jardin-des-Plantes do not always give the spectacle of the same desolation. We know there shopping streets, poor but livable houses, narrow but well-kept rooms that retain remains of an old slack, waxed furniture, white...

What Rich Man will be Saved? • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | June 15, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

We need not dwell on those amongst them who are better off [at Lyonnais Street]; those who, for six persons, can supply two beds, into which are huddled pellmell the sick and the healthy, boys of eighteen with girls of sixteen. Let's not talk about the ruin of the...

The Situation of the Poor in our Cities • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | June 8, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

On either side of a filthy sewer rise houses five stories high, many of which shelter fifty families. Low, damp, and noxious rooms; [...] no paper, often not a single piece of furniture, hides the nakedness of the wretched walls. In a house of the Rue des Lyonnais we...

The Privilege of Serving the Poor • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | June 1, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Those who have the privilege of distributing the public help [...] go, for instance, to the twelfth arrondissement, one of the strongholds of the insurrection, and out of about ninety thousand inhabitants they find eight thousand families inscribed on the list of the...

To Grieve with the Evils of the Poor • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | Jul 20, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

[If so are now] the evils, not of a single district, but of several districts of Paris; not only in Paris but in Lyon,...

Protecting the Children • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | Jul 13, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

One is terrified, and rightly, by that multitude of children growing up for disorder and for crime, with no other...

The Dignity of the Poor • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | Jul 6, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

In these foul cellars and garrets, sometimes next door to sloth and vice we have often come upon the loveliest...

Are We Visionary Enough to Serve?

by John Freund, CM | Jul 8, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Are we able to operate not so much with answers or even programs, as necessary as they may be, but with vision, with hopes and dreams?

Are We Loved Enough?

by John Freund, CM | Jul 1, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Will we stand alone, or will we stand with others, being a part of what is good in them, being more together than ever we could be alone? Our sisters and brothers in the body of Christ touch us, change us, soften us, and call us forward with their love.

Are You Ready To Give Up … To Serve?

by John Freund, CM | Jun 24, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Sometimes, maybe even many times, we walk into situations with preconceived notions about what is needed.

Do You Have the Courage to Serve?

by John Freund, CM | Jun 11, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

”Do we have the courage to go out of our comfort zones and serve?”

Does Your Compassion Lead To Solidarity?

by John Freund, CM | Jun 10, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

Our vision in faith leads to compassion, a compassion that leads inevitably to real and lasting solidarity.

Why Do I Do What I Do?

by John Freund, CM | Jun 3, 2017 | Formation, Reflections

MINISTRY AS A CALL – why do I do what I do?

Collaboration #3: Leadership #IamVincent

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 28, 2017 | Collaboration, Formation

Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity and planning around the 400th anniversary, we can forget that to say #IamVincent means to do the work. Here's the third of a three-part "reworking" of a timely article...