Advent Conspiracy

The concept behind the Advent Conpiracy (now in its third year) is simple: Worship Fully. Spend Less. Give More. Love All. See their website for various resources aimed at making Christmas the world changing event the first Christmas was. You can share your story...

Vincentian heritage on thanksgiving

Here are some selections on gratitude from our Vincentian heritage…. Abelly, one of Vincent’s early biographers wrote, “He used to say that nothing was so efficacious in winning the heart of God as a spirit of gratitude for his gifts and blessings. In this...

Vincent – “Up close and personal”

Abelly’s classic biography of Vincent, published just 4 years after his death, is among the treasures being made available in easily accessible fashion in the reference shelf of the Vincentian Encyclopedia. It has the advantage of being written by a man who knew...

The New Monastics and Urban Poverty

Shane Claiborne is an original voice, a creative spirit, in a gathering movement of young people known as the “new monastics.” With virtues like simplicity and imagination, they are engaging great contradictions of our culture — beginning with the gap...

Vincent got it right! Confirmation

Vincent got it right saying  “leave God for God.” For modern confirmation see Joyce Little’s listing of examples from the life of Jesus  in her book The Church and Culture War. She writes, “What we fail to understand is that if [interruptions from our...