I have the very pleasant custom to identify myself with my friends, to consider them as a second family and to...

by Javier F. Chento | June 14, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam | 0 Comments
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Do we use music, as a means of evangelization, in our group, branch, parish, etc? Should we?
by Javier F. Chento | Jun 7, 2025 | 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...
by Javier F. Chento | May 17, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The only rule to be considered for human actions is that of love: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God above all things,...
by Javier F. Chento | May 10, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Do we use music, as a means of evangelization, in our group, branch, parish, etc? Should we?
by Javier F. Chento | May 3, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
It is important that we see in this primitive text of Ozanam the passion preserved throughout his life when defending his convictions.
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 26, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The purpose of the Society is to form a group or association of mutual encouragement for young Catholics, where they can find friendship, support, example, and a substitute of the family where they have grown up ... And after that, the strongest bond: charity, that is...
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 12, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
In a certain sense, I believe the aim we were proposing in Paris is not quite the same as that you are proposing in the province. In Paris we are birds of passage, away for some time from the paternal nest and on which unbelief, that vulture of thought, plans for its...
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 5, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Truth has no need of me, but I do need Truth. The Cause of Christian Science, the Cause of Faith, is deep in the roots of my heart. [...] As Truth is threatened, as the letters are the battlefield in which the quarrel takes place, as the teaching occupies in it a...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 22, 2025 | A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
It is foolish to consume the days accumulating what is not to be enjoyed; it is madness also to pile up for the children. Children who see forming a heap of gold for themselves are strongly tempted to sit and fold their arms. To prepare a fortune for them is often to...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 15, 2025 | 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 theology." The main purpose of...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 1, 2025 | 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...
by Javier F. Chento | Feb 15, 2025 | 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...
by Javier F. Chento | Jan 18, 2025 | 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....