16 million cyber-candles for gratefulness

16 million cyber-candles for gratefulness

In many different traditions lighting candles is a sacred action. It expresses more than words can express. It has to do with gratefulness. From time immemorial, people have lit candles in sacred places. Why should cyberspace not be sacred? Gratefulness.org offers...
Stop! Look! Go! – Recipe for Gratefulness

Stop! Look! Go! – Recipe for Gratefulness

A blessed New Year to you and to all those close to your heart! Let’s open our eyes and recognize 2014 for what it really is: A wonderful tree heavy with harvest — every day of all four seasons. And let’s practice the trick for harvesting this abundance of...

Preventing jihad

Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), October 13, 2013 – 2 Kgs 5, 14-17; 2 Tim 2, 8-13; Lk 17, 11-19 I am grateful to him who has strengthened me …, I who am the foremost sinner (1 Tim 1, 12. 15) St. Vincent de Paul says that God makes use even of our sins for...
Vincentians – who are we?

Vincentians – who are we?

Gratefulness. org is inviting people to be “Guardians for Gratefulness” As I read the description of who they are the verbs stood out. I began thinking, “How would a group of Vincentians complete those sentences in the context of being Servants of...