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Working Tirelessly for the Impoverished • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | August 24, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
It Is Better to Do Little than to Do Nothing • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | August 17, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
We Never Do Enough • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | August 10, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Goods are for Everyone • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | August 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
People are Generous • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | Aug 31, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Representatives of the people, Do not plead want of money. If the ordinary resources should come to fail you, if there...
Working Tirelessly for the Impoverished • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | Aug 24, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Representatives of the people, Do not say that you lack time. Under the shootings of the insurrection, the National...
It Is Better to Do Little than to Do Nothing • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | Aug 17, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Representatives of the people, Do not say that you lack inspiration. [...] We do not ignore the obstacles or the...
Defending our Beliefs and Loving our Adversaries • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | May 4, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
Above all else, let us learn how to defend our convictions without hating our adversaries, to love those who have a different opinion, to recognize the fact that Christians have many and varied viewpoints and that God can be served today as always. Let us complain...
The Small Pleasures of Life • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 27, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
I do not like and do not share in any way the rigorist doctrines of some Christians, who, without even realizing it, have clothed themselves in arrogance and false modesty; they are far from the true spirit of faith. The innocent joys of life were never forbidden....
Experience, the Mother of Knowledge • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 20, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
We are convinced that the science of charitable reforms is not learned in the books or in the tribunes of the public assemblies, but by going up to the hovel of the poor, sitting at their bedside, suffering the cold they suffer. Then, in friendly conversation, we have...
Learning from Our Children and Our Parents • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 13, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
What an incredible moment when I heard the last cries of my beloved wife and the first cries of my daughter! What an incredible moment to behold that child, small but immortal; that child that God placed in my hands; that child that has brought me much love and many...
Weaving God’s Plan • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 6, 2024 | Formation, Reflections
We, all of us, are like the weavers of the Gobelins, who, following out the pattern of an unknown artist, endeavor to match the threads of diverse colors on the wrong side of the loom, and do not see the result of their labor. It is only when the work is complete that...