vincentian spirituality

The Spirit of God is always moving through creation and through human hearts. But there are things we can do which make us more receptive to those movements.

As all of us know, to say that something is symbolic is to claim that some reality, the symbol, carries inside itself much more than what appears on its surface.

Imaginatively placing resolutions and actions around the manger is a prayer exercise that can draw us closer into what is happening there.

Much of life, is spent waiting — and Advent is the time of hopeful waiting. 

When this King is exercising his Kingship where does he stand and what does he see?

Developmental psychologists point to a foundational experience in the life of a child whose effects ripple through the rest of life.

…You feel an impulse to do something connected with faith – and you pursue it.

There’s a nugget of wisdom that goes, “He had the experience, but missed the meaning.”

“Noticing” is high up on the list of how “they’ll know we are Christians” — and certainly how they’ll know we are Vincentians.