vincentian spirituality

A Collaborative Witness (Luke 8:1-3)

Certainly the words and actions of such groups are meant to proclaim God’s Kingdom, but their very collaboration is itself an announcement of the Message.

Magis (Matthew 20:1-16)

There is the Jesuit one-word motto, “magis,” the Latin for “more,” meant to remind them that God is always “more than,” always greater.  But greater than what?

Sacramental Speaking and Listening (Ezekiel, 33; Matthew, 18)

A question often on the lips of a believer: where and how is God present in my life?

Broadening The Frame (Matthew 15:21-8)

An important element in this nurturing is what could be described as a frame, the boundaries through which they have been taught to look out at the world.

Gracious Acts (2 Corinthians, 8:7-15)

St. Louise: Moving Toward Love

St. Louise: Moving Toward Love (Is. 58: Mt. 25) There’s a famous quote attributed to Mark Twain: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much...

Gracious Acts (2 Corinthians, 8:7-15)

The Saints as Bibliography

The Saints as Bibliography      Acts 4:8 There’s a writer who characterizes the lives of the saints as “bibliographic entries onto the life of the Lord Jesus Christ.” A bibliography: a series of additions to the one story; i.e., variations on how Jesus’ story plays...

Gracious Acts (2 Corinthians, 8:7-15)

The Faces of God

The Faces of God        John 8:14 I once came across a psychological test aiming to measure a person’s trust in life or fear of it, life understood in its most general sense as existence or reality.  It was getting at the question, “Down at your instinctual level, do...

Not Just Interesting, But Moving

“Not Just Interesting, But Moving”           (Exodus 3; Psalm 103) There’s a difference between things that are interesting and things that are intriguing, between things which make us curious and things which actually move us. I can pick up a score of a symphony and...

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