The "I" is truly importunate and hateful, that selfish solitude does not suit the needs of my character; I need the...

by Javier F. Chento | June 14, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam | 0 Comments
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What is progress for Frederic? To build a better world for all, with effort and sacrifice. It is not a great program for a politician, but it is the only possible program for a Christian.
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 5, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The "I" is truly importunate and hateful, that selfish solitude does not suit the needs of my character; I need the...
by Javier F. Chento | Sep 28, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
All Catholic countries have placed charity in the law, but what has saved them is that they have not extinguished it...
by Javier F. Chento | Sep 21, 2024 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
We are useless servants: such is the testimony that must give those who unite to serve God and men. [...] Not to show...
by Famvin Media Resources | Sep 6, 2020 | Formation, Media, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This was the crisis situation in which 7 young men stood up and decided “to go to the margins”. This is a dramatic, very moving and very topical story, with many parallels between that period and our own.
by Famvin Media Resources | Sep 4, 2020 | Formation
Visit the tomb of Frederic Ozanam in this video from VinFlix. Commentary by Fr. Joseph Agostino, C.M.
by John Freund, CM | Aug 14, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
The explosion on 8/4 will be seared into the minds of every person in Lebanon. Beirut, with its estimated 300,000 homeless is almost already forgotten in world media.
by Fr. Ronald Ramson, C.M. | Jul 18, 2020 | News
I chose to write an “autobiography” of a man who never wrote an autobiography. 187 years after his death, I did this because I have such admiration for him.
by John Freund, CM | Jul 14, 2020 | Vincentian Prayer Images
(We learn about those we serve)… “not from books nor from the public platform, but in climbing the stairs to the poor man’s garret, sitting by his bedside, feeling the same cold that pierces him.” Frederic Ozanam
by John Freund, CM | Apr 28, 2020 | Vincentian Prayer Images
What can I do as an individual to help others cope with their fears and losses?
by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 19, 2020 | Formation, Media, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Looking at some of Frederic Ozanam’s experiences during the cholera pandemic of his time, we can draw many parallels with our situation today.
by John Freund, CM | Feb 26, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections, Systemic change
What do Pope Francis (2020), Pope Pius XI (1927) and Bl. Frederic Ozanam (1848) have in common?
by Michelle Boyer | Feb 11, 2020 | News
A mosaic of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul’s founder, Blessed Frederic Ozanam, was dedicated during a special Mass at the Basilica.