Are you a Christian “from time to time” (maybe only at the Church, your group, community), or do you live your faith in all fields of your life?
Frederic Ozanam
Go to the Peripheries • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Always take care of the servants as much as of the masters, and of the workers as of the rich: that will be, in the...
Let Us Put Our Faith Under the Shelter of Charity • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
At that time, a number of philosophical and heterodox doctrines were stirring around us, and we felt the desire and...
Marriage and Equality of Spouses • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
In Christianity, the primary purpose of marriage is not the birth of children– St. Augustine says it aptly, and it is also the doctrine of Tertullian, who has been called “the father of Latin Christianity” and “the founder of Western...
Government Ought to be at the Service of the People • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Frederic called upon young people to do whatever was in their power in order to alleviate social needs and to try to do good to some people.
The Foundation is to Assist the Poor • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
What constitutes the life of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is the home visit to the poor; it is not enough to attend meetings regularly […]. The visit, in order to obtain from it the fruits that one has the right to expect, must be punctual, respectful and...
Christians in Public Life • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
You may know that in Paris —as in Lyons but for far more plausible reasons— processions are forbidden; but, as some disrupters like Catholicism to be enclosed in the temples of the great cities, this is no reason why young Christians, to whom God has endowed a...
In the Mist of Crisis, “Seek First the Justice of God” • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
As in the days of Frederic, more than 150 years ago, our society is suffering a turbulent period of crisis and wars that discourage us.
Accompany the Youth in their Faith Journey • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
You have accustomed us to look upon you as the meeting point, the counselor and the friend of the young Christians; your past goodness has given us the right to count on your future goodness; those you have had with me make me expect similar ones for my friends....
Defending the Cause of the Proletariat • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
It’s time to share and retrieve our good; I mean: the old and popular ideas of justice, charity, fraternity. It’s time to show that we can defend the cause of the proletariat, engage in relief classes suffering, and pursue the abolition of pauperism,...
Merry Christmas! • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
That bond, God that unites family in distance, comforts Frederic, gives him “strength and courage.” Did you wish family and friends a Merry Christmas?
Assisting the Poor is Way More than Giving them Bread • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Help is humiliating when it appeals to men from below, taking heed of their material wants only, paying no attention but to those of the flesh, to the cry of hunger and cold, to what excites pity, to what one succors even in the beasts. […] It humiliates when...
