Music

What if it Was Your Neighborhood?

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | March 9, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Social | 0 Comments

Watch LET ME IN starring Alicia Keys. https://youtu.be/v-1hpZzJpmg There are more refugees in the world today than at any point in history. And half of them are children. LET ME IN is a cinematic experience which reimagines the refugee crisis as if it was happening on...

Open Your Eyes • A Music Video

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | February 19, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Social | 1 Comment

I'm going to show my age (60). Bursting on the music scene out of Queens, New York in the mid-seventies, The Ramones are probably punk rock's best known band. Punk stripped down the rock music genre to its bare essentials, and a sub-group of this movement began to...

#famvin400 Unseen Changes, Unseen Pain

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | October 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media | 0 Comments

Alienation makes for a different type of stranger. There are unseen wounds. https://youtu.be/fr1NumLiv54 Reflection and challenge: There are people all around us that hide their suffering: from poverty, from...

#famvin400 It’s not about Vincent

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | September 22, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media | 1 Comment

Really... it's not about Vincent. It's about Jesus. "Follow me" by Casting Crowns get's at the heart of the matter. https://youtu.be/LraPDltKlvI Reflection and challenge: The call "Follow Me" that you hear...

Open Your Eyes • A Music Video

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 19, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Social

I'm going to show my age (60). Bursting on the music scene out of Queens, New York in the mid-seventies, The Ramones...

#famvin400 Unseen Changes, Unseen Pain

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media

Alienation makes for a different type of stranger. There are unseen wounds. https://youtu.be/fr1NumLiv54 [box...

#famvin400 It’s not about Vincent

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 22, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media

Really... it's not about Vincent. It's about Jesus. "Follow me" by Casting Crowns get's at the heart of the matter....

#famvin400 Learning the Resilience of the Poor

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 15, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media

How is it that some people who are poor have such resilience? I come from a show business background: the theatre. From the artist's pen comes music and lyrics that touch the human experience. Listen to this haunting song from "The Color Purple" by Stephen Bray,...

#famvin400 Breaking the Code of Silence

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 1, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media

Reconciliation in the Anniversary Year When people are hurt, they shut down, they have entered another kind of deep poverty. They pray, and sometimes there's no answer. People adopt a Code of Silence because they are afraid. Vincentians are called to serve body and...

Firm in the Faith

by Javier F. Chento | Aug 18, 2016 | Formation

We live the faith in community, sure that the Spirit is with us. This song is in Spanish, but the words follow below. It's well worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxpM9l2IJsY The lyrics of this...

#famvin400 Praying with a Broken Heart

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jul 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media

When people say they have a broken heart, they have entered a deep poverty. They pray, and sometimes there's no answer. Vincentians are called to serve body and spirit. Listen to this Sarah Hart song. https://youtu.be/WBecGxKmEKM [box type="tick" size="large"...

White Flag Flies #IamVincent

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jun 30, 2016 | Formation, Reflections

Army of Me's "White Flag Flies" is a haunting lyric and melody. It’s takes a soldier To live with the strife It takes a hero To lay down his life It looks like a graveyard But darling it’s ripe So let’s change the world now We’ll set it on fire...

#famvin400 Who am I?

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jun 16, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media

A Vincentian wants to know the answer to the question, "Who am I?" Too often, we only answer the question, "What have I done?" Part of preparing for the coming 400th anniversary year is coming to know ourselves in God's eyes. Are we willing to look deeply? Listen to...

#famvin400 Stranger in our midst

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jun 9, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media

One of the "sub-themes" of the coming 400th anniversary year is welcoming the stranger in our midst on a daily basis. Are there people suffering right next to us? Listen to this Matt Maher song. https://youtu.be/kq3-OyRh3Zw [box type="tick" size="large"...

#famvin400 If we are the body we make people welcome…

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 19, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media

One of the "sub-themes" of the coming 400th anniversary year is welcoming the stranger in our midst on a daily basis. Is there room for people to join our cause? Listen to this Casting Crowns song. https://youtu.be/SExJ9od-0zQ?t=8s [box type="tick" size="large"...

Vincentians of Wherever: Celebrity Activism

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 24, 2016 | Formation, Reflections

Celebrity activism sometimes gets a bad rap. Many of us who are aficionados of contemporary music are, in our own ways, mourning the death of the artist called "Prince." Most people know him because of his outlandish sartorial style, his gender-stretching image, and...