by John Freund, CM | Dec 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
In “Open to God’s plan” José Antonio Pagola reflects on the Gospel for the feast of the Holy Family…Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 The gospel accounts leave no doubt whatsoever. According to Jesus, God has a great plan: to build in the world a big...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
The materialism of Santa Claus and spirituality of the Child Jesus One day, the Son of God wanted to know how the children whom, when he used to walk among us, he would touch and bless and would say “Let the children come to me…for the kingdom of God...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Incarnation Celebrate Christ’s Birth – Love -Rescue the lost sheep. – Themes for Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – December 24, 2013 Dear Vincentian Family: May your Christmas be filled with Hope, Peace, Joy and Love and may you always know and feel the...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
A Bethlehem spirituality offers a perspective on renewal both ecclesial and personal according to an article The Meaning of Bethlehem, translated from the Peruvian publication La Republica. The Catholic Church is experiencing a time of reform and renewal whose...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Wow” opens a path beyond words, a doorway into awe-filled wonder. It evokes an “Oh, my” response to a seaside sunset, a sleeping baby, a perching butterfly. It echoes the “Aha” of a liberating insight. Noticing these “sticky notes” from God demands that I slow down,...
by John Freund, CM | Dec 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
The first Christmas. It rattles a marriage. It exiles a family. It endangers lives. And it provokes a madman to murder. The brisk descriptions in the New Testament fail to capture what must have been, for Mary and Joseph and many others, a bewildering, terrifying...
