vincentian spirituality

“God” is not just another word, but rather the designation of the overflowing reality at the heart of everything.

In his unaffected way, he was voicing a truth that runs across the whole length of the Bible and all down the avenues of our faith: “I give help because I have been helped.”

One of the favorite images seen all through the Scriptures is the feast, the sumptuous banquet overflowing, as Isaiah pictures it, with “juicy, rich food and choice wines.”

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.

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?

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

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.

An often-heard question: “Is there enough to go around?” Sometimes asked out of kindness, it can also arise out of fear.