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 | May 6, 2013 | Formation
Gerald O’Collins SJ asks us to think about the way in which Jesus identified himself with the homeless, and took every opportunity to speak about and help them. When we consider that Jesus himself was homeless for much of his life, how does this challenge us to see...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 16, 2013 | Evangelization, News, Technology: Issues and Uses
Mashable.com writes…. If Jesus had been around in the 21st century we all know he’d be plugged in with his iPhone 5 — How else would he keep tabs on the Apostles? Cartoonist Brad Colbow imagined just how digital this member of the Holy Trinity would be if...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 25, 2012 | Evangelization
As we move into this Year of Faith and the New Evangelization the folks at InternetEvangelismDay have posted an article on “Jesus, the Communicator –Â His sermon method: meeting felt needs first”. “If Jesus had anything like a standard approach...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 28, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Sitting in a Communist country on top of a monument to fallen firefighters, is a Daughter of Charity immortalized in stone. Her face is somber, clutching a cross to her chest, and she sits with a mother pelican and her two babies. A Daughter of Charity Postulant...