vincentian spirituality

A Vincentian View: Beginning with Luke

During 2025, our attention for the Sunday Gospels of Ordinary Time finds its focus on Luke’s story of Jesus. 

Gospel Eyes and Ears (Mark 12)

Much is revealed about a person by observing what he or she notices. And that’s because what one spots is in large part determined by what that person values more and appreciates less.

Vincentian Eyes (Luke 12)

An often-cited quote from Dale Carnegie: “Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”

“In serving persons who are poor, we serve Jesus Christ…” St. Vincent de Paul (presentation)

‘in serving persons who are poor, we serve Jesus Christ…. and that is as true as that we are here’. (CCD IX:199)

Taking In (Nehemiah 8; I Corinthians 12; Luke 4: 18-21)

The Right Focus

The Right Focus (Matthew 6) I came across an interview with a woman violinist who had just completed a concert and gotten rave reviews for it. The interviewer was asking her how she got to be so good, how she developed this great gift of letting the beauty of the...

Taking In (Nehemiah 8; I Corinthians 12; Luke 4: 18-21)

You Are Somebody

“You Are Somebody…”       (John 15) (Homily at the Farewell Mass for the departing members of the 2015/16 Vincentian Mission Corps, St. Louis) Jesus confides in His disciples today, “I have told you this, that your joy may be complete.” Or to put it another way: “I...

Taking In (Nehemiah 8; I Corinthians 12; Luke 4: 18-21)

Wonderful News. Blessed Are Those…

“Wonderful News.” Blessed Are Those…       Matthew 5 What if we were to take these Beatitude behaviors and attitudes as descriptions of the way things already are in the world, as if we were hearing Jesus giving a kind of analysis of society as it really is? We’d have...

Taking In (Nehemiah 8; I Corinthians 12; Luke 4: 18-21)

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...

Taking In (Nehemiah 8; I Corinthians 12; Luke 4: 18-21)

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...

Taking In (Nehemiah 8; I Corinthians 12; Luke 4: 18-21)

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...

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