vincentian spirituality
65th Anniversary of Vincentian Brother Alfred Smith’s Service
by Tom McKenna, CM | October 19, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 3 Comments
To keep God’s people safe and alive in their battle against Amalek, Moses has to hold his arms high in the air for a very long while.
Stand Up and Go! (2 Kings, 5:14-17; Lk 17:11-19)
by Tom McKenna, CM | October 5, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
For all of us who have been through the pandemic, we know first-hand how disease and sickness have a way of separating us, how they can isolate and cut us off from the rest of life.
Acceptance — And Ingenuity (Luke 16:1-13)
by Tom McKenna, CM | September 21, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
Scripture Scholars tell us that the meaning behind the word “parable” is curve, as in throwing a curve.
Prioritizing (Lk 14: 25-9)
by Tom McKenna, CM | September 7, 2022 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
There are hardly any words in all the gospels more blunt than the stark ones Jesus proclaims in Luke’s 14th chapter.
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Toward Jerusalem
by Tom McKenna, CM | Apr 5, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
We disciples of Christ profess to follow the Lord Jesus– and this week in particular, we would follow Him to Jerusalem.
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Never Alone (John 11:1-45)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 22, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
One of the heaviest of feelings is the one of being alone. You hear it in the cry of an infant, and more generally you catch it in the forlorn look of any lonely person.
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Seeing What’s There (John 9:39)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 8, 2023 | Formation, Reflections
How many times have you heard people use the phrase, “I finally woke up?”
The One Body (Deuteronomy 8; 1 Cor 10:17; John 6:57)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jun 17, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
You, me, all of us together are the Body of Christ.
Reaching Across (1 Samuel:20)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jun 3, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
Especially in these fractious times, how to move more toward unity rather than separation? How to help others to see past tightly held identity markers?
Louise and Light (Isaiah 58: 5,10)
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 20, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
Yet while walking those somber corridors, St. Louise came to discover right there in the gloom a flickering light that held her on course.
Setting Out
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 6, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
We meet two people setting out on a journey, both with God in mind.
Recounting The Good News (Lk 24:13-35)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Apr 22, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
While not as central to faith as The Lord’s “doing this in remembrance of Me,” the recollecting we Vincentians do has its own way of bringing past graces into the now.
Engraving An Image (John 13:1-15)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Apr 8, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
If we could video a scene catching the heart of Jesus’ message, we wouldn’t go far wrong recording something that happens during the final supper with his disciples.
Words – and Words (John 4:5-42)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 25, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
“I hear you talking. But the question is what are you saying?”
Something More (Mt 5:17-37; I Cor 2:6)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 11, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
Under modern-day pressures to bring the Good News to the poor, may the Vincentian Family continue to rely on that Something More.
Little Pieces of Light (Isaiah 58; Mt. 5)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Feb 26, 2020 | Formation, Reflections
Returning to the light imagery of Isaiah and Jesus, we’re enjoined not to deepen the dark by inaction but rather to let the light of our active compassion push back the gloom.