Vincentian Grandparents 2014
September 7 marks Grandparents Day in the US. Do Something grand for them. Some of us are blessed with grandparents who are still living. Others never knew their grandparents and perhaps not next to nothing about them.
September 7 marks Grandparents Day in the US. Do Something grand for them. Some of us are blessed with grandparents who are still living. Others never knew their grandparents and perhaps not next to nothing about them.
As the Colorado Vincentian Volunteers celebrate 20 years of young adults in companionship with those who are poor in the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul, we also celebrate that we have 20 volunteers this year.
“Ours is a world where we are saturated with information which we are expected to absorb and respond to, often instantly. Not only must we respond, but the expectation is that we will make decisions with wisdom, with justice, with compassion and with a whole array of other values. Where can we find guidance or a degree of certainty in making decisions? How do we know what God is asking of us?
“What had happened to persuade the young Vincent (about thirty) to begin to take his Christian life more seriously? Something must have brought Vincent to his decision.