The April offering in the monthly Vincentian eBook offering is St. Vincent de Paul and the Spirit of Service
Abstract: If our vocation consists of following Jesus Christ then it is in our total willingness to serve the poor that we find our perfection. This service is spiritual and material. This service is also more a question of “being” rather than “doing”: the greatest Servant, Jesus Christ, from the first moment of His life, had this willingness to serve: Here I am Lord, I have come to do your will! Jesus did much more by being what He was, the servant of God, than any other activity that He might have accomplished during his public ministry. Vincent said that Jesus did more suffering than doing… Jesus did more by making Himself one with the poor, by taking on the form of a slave (Philippians 2:7). In order to be faithful to our vocation we do not have to move heaven and earth, we do not have to cross oceans or produce marvelous wonders… in fact, even when we feel that we are useless servants, we simply have to be humble servants of God’s plan with regard to those who are poor.
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Other Vincentian eBook offerings…
eBook Club: Faith of Our Founders Series
- January 2014 Louise de Marillac: Fully Woman by Various authors
- February 2014 St. Vincent de Paul and Evangelization by Various authors
- March 2014 Louise de Marillac, A Committed Woman by Various authors
- April 2014 St. Vincent de Paul and the Spirit of Service by Various authors
Authors
- Daughters of Charity: Martyrs in Madri Sister María Ángeles Infante, DC
- The Liberation of the Poor: The Vincentian Rule To Make the Gospel of Jesus Christ Effective Santiago Barquín, CM
- Louise de Marillac, A Committed Woman Various authors
- Louise de Marillac: Fully Woman Various authors
- The Prayer of Saint Louise de Marillac Corpus Juan Delgado, CM
- The Value of Gratitude Sister Carmen Urrizburu, DC
- The Value of Mercy According to Vincent de Paul Paulino Sáez López, CM
- Saint Vincent Confronts the Crisis of Values of His Era Luigi Mezzadri, CM
- St. Vincent de Paul and the “New Poor” Various authors
- A Samaritan Called Vincent de PaulJuan Julián Díaz Catalán, CM
- Vincent de Paul and Peace Various authors
- A Vincentian Reflection on Martyrdom Vinícius Augusto Ribeiro Teixeira, CM
- The Witness of the Spanish Vincentian Missionaries, Martyrs of the Twentieth Century Antonio Orcajo, CM
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