Frederic Ozanam

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 among the Youth. Fourteen years ago, the Society was born: it must not get old as its founders grow old and charity becomes a routine practice. Youth...

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...

The Two Doctrines of Progress • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

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.

Special request for the intercession of Bl. Frederic

Special request for the intercession of Bl. Frederic

Society of St. Vincent dePaul CEO, David Barringer writes... Our fellow Vincentian, friend and National CFO Richard Morin is undergoing a serious medical condition.  On behalf of President Sheila and myself, we ask you to pray for Richard using the attached Frederick...

Experiencing Frederic and Rosalie

Experiencing Frederic and Rosalie - St. John’s University students have been invited and challenged to enter into the experience of Blessed Rosalie Rendu and Frederic Ozanam in the Freshman Rendu Plunge August 21-25 2015. Almost 200 years ago a fellow student at the...

Frederic Ozanam speaks to us today

History does repeat itself! Frederic Ozanam speaks to us today in this letter written by Blessed Fredric in 1836. It is rich food for thought as we prepare to celebrate his feast September 9. If in the Middle Ages a sick society could be healed only through a huge...

Frederic Ozanam on Building the Good Society

Given the profound questions Pope Francis is raising about our society it might be very instructive to take a few minutes to watch a series of videos in which Dr. Raymond Sickinger, Ph.D. leads discussion of a paper by Dr. David L. Gregory, Ph.D., entitled “Antoine...

Blessed Fredrick Ozanam “I am a Father!”

Blessed Fredrick Ozanam “I am a Father!”

“After so many favors that were set down in my vocation in this world, a new blessing has come to me, to know the greatest joy probably it is possible to experience here below: I am a father!” –Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, in a letter to his friend Theophile Foisset, July...

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