- Appreciating Vincent’s Genius
- The Census and Vincentian “Home Visits”
- Pope Francis Does It Again – Expanding Horizons
- The Good Samaritan, Pair of Jesuits and St. Vincent
- Is Pope Francis Getting The Word Out?
- Is Prophecy About the Future… or the Present?
- Are You an Original Or a Photocopy?
- Helping Everyone Become More Fully Alive
- Pope Francis Encyclical As Puzzle?
- Is Prophecy About the Future… or the Present?
- Are You an Original Or a Photocopy?
- Pope Francis Encyclical As Puzzle?
- The Good Samaritan In a Post-COVID World
- Dreams – Our Parents and God’s
- The Church Is No Expert…
September
- Speaking Truth To Power – Pope Francis and St. Vincent
- Challenges of the “Ten Suggestions”
- Forced Like Jesus Christ To Flee
- Emmy Blesses Good News
- Our Heritage – Agents of Change
- Cooperating In Making All Things New
- What I Can’t and Can Know
- The “Knee” in 404 and the “Spine” in 405″
- Experiencing a transforming encounter with God
- So Where Is There “Good News”?
- Who Is a Catholic in Name Only?
- Can Mentoring Young People Change the World?
- Pope Francis – “A New Imagination of the Possible”
- Can’t You See I Am Making All Things New
- Blending systemic change and a “culture of encounter”
- Praying For What’s Really Important
- A Step Toward Encounter
- Getting Practical About Encounter
- That “Other” Virus
- Vincent de Paul – Staffing a “Field Hospital” Church
- My Mindwalk To a Day of Prayer For Creation
- Vincent de Paul – Staffing a “Field Hospital” Church
- Do You Remember 9/11… and 8/4?
- How we listen to “the cries of the poor “
- If Mary Had a Blog…
- “I’ve Heard That Song Before!”
- Please Don’t Tell Anyone!
- “Rubbing Shoulders” With Jesus
- In the Eye of the Beholder
- Hiroshima and the Explosive Power of Ideas
July
- The Challenge of Pope John Paul II
- The Nun Who Woke Up To the Poor At Forty
- Who Are You In the Bible?
- Are You a Mentor?
- Live What We Sing – Sing What We Live
- Beatitudes for Youth Advisors
- The Vitality of the Vincentian Charism Today
- Flying under the radar! – Vincentian Professionals?
- Can Mice Teach Us Something About “Normal?
- Live What We Sing – Sing What We Live
- Beatitudes for Youth Advisors
- The Vitality of the Vincentian Charism Today
- Flying under the radar! – Vincentian Professionals?
- Can Mice Teach Us Something About “Normal?
- Do I Know What the Poor Really Want and Need?
- Who do we serve? Only the “good” poor?
- Broadening Horizons – A Life-long Journey
- “Bring Good News To The Poor” – Jesus’ Mission Statement
- Our Unrecognized Pandemics
- Ordinary Time(s) In Our Lives
- A Saint Speaks To America From His Heart
- The Declaration of Independence – Read It Recently?
- Rip Van Winkle Waking Up In a “Post COVID World”
June
- Zooming Into a Digital World
- A Journey From Opposites To Equals
- What Is This “VincentianThing”?
- What If God Required a Security Deposit?
- Laudato Si One Image Or Five Words?
- Jesus – Hero or Knight?
- Problem-solving – “Whack-a-mole” or “Big Picture” Thinking
- Father’s Day and the Fatherhood of God
- Vincent’s Way of Doing Things
- A Saint Ahead of His Times
- Enough is Enough
- Recognizing the Body Of Christ Today
- What Must We As Vincentian Family Do?
- Lessons From History – My Family and the Vincentian Family
- Trinity – From Puzzle To Be Solved To Model To Be Lived
- A Path Forward In a Time of National Unrest
- A Grieving Mother of the Church
May
- The Flames of Pentecost – Which Will I Fan?
- We are God’s story… and God’s story-tellers
- St. Vincent – Sage or Mentor
- Pentecost and our mental maps
- “Vincent’s Secret Sauce” — Further Thoughts
- What is the Most Important Room in the World?
- Is Vincent’s Journey Your Journey?
- Do I Understand “My Father’s House”?
- Vincentians Look For Jesus’ Footprints
- COVID19 and the Vincentian Thing
- Vincent’s “Secret Sauce” For Change
- On a Lighter Yet Meaningful Note.
- Vincent’s Mother and Our Mothers
- Vincentian Mothers – Mentors of Dreams
- Vincent Outgrew “Zipcode Politics”!
- NORMAL? – Old, New… Or Better
- What’s On My Mind As I Walk?
- Vincent and Louise In Conversation about COVID19
April
- Forgotten truths about Vincent’s Genius
- Vocation Sunday With Pope Francis and Two Vincentians
- St. Vincent de Paul’s Inner “Doubting Thomas”
- “Pay it Forward” and Divine Mercy Sunday
- The Acts of the Apostles Are About Us – Today
- Recognizing Jesus in the Breaking of Bread – Today
- Which Way Are You Heading On the Road To Emmaus
- Praying Our Heritage: The Word Made Flesh in Our Lives
- A Kind of Modern Apparition of Mary
- What We Can and Cannot Do in These Serious Days
- St. Vincent Responds to a Bishop During a Plague
- There Has Got To Be a Better System
- The Way of the Cross Through Mary’s Eyes
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