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In this series, Fr. Rooney extends the Sunday experience by looking at how we practically live a liturgically informed life. This week: many lay Vincentians are married; let’s reflect on how we can imitate the virtues of holy founder Frederic Ozanam in his relationship with his wife, Amélie.
In this series, Fr. Rooney extends the Sunday experience by looking at how we practically live a liturgically informed life. This week: When you say, “I’m growing in knowledge of Christ,” is that happening because you followed him into the world of the poor?
Frederic never aspired to a position of leadership (though in fact, he was a leader) nor did he ever attempt to utilize his position for personal gain.
Am I convinced that the first and most important thing is charity, and without it nothing else makes sense?
I believe in the progress of Christian times. I do not fear the falls and the gaps which may interrupt it: the chilly nights which follow the hot days do not prevent the summer from following its course and ripening its fruits. [.] When the barbarians levelled the...
It is easier to use an uplifting language, to fulfill certain positive precepts and to reject certain pleasures, than to be deeply filled with the evangelical spirit, to keep it in the depths of the soul to ennoble it, purify it and improve it; in the end: to...
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?
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 is it an honorable name under which a good impression can be made before the religious world: it is a model that we must strive to live, as he himself...
Part three of four on Almsgiving…a reflection on a full article by Ozanam, which is among Frederic’s most outstanding.
