This morning’s Vincentian Mindwalk picks from the previous reflection Do Your Spiritual Hearing Aids Need Cleaning?.
We can have fully functioning hearing aids but if we have not put them on we miss the point. We only hear what we expect to hear.
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Do Your Spiritual Hearing Aids Need Cleaning?
I remember well my first pair of hearing aids. What a difference they made!
Of course, I had to make sure the aids are not clogged with wax.
When Talk Doesn’t Run Cheap!
I must admit I was both surprised and not surprised by the controversy over Jesus’ cameo appearance at the Super Bowl. I knew it was coming. But I did not know the exact time. In this Vincentian Mindwalk I explore my reaction.
The Power of the Storyteller
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”— Steve Jobs.
Another Cry of the Poor – Room On Your Plate?
Making room on our plate to pray… O God of the poor, help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth, so precious in your eyes. Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruct…
Writing Straight With Crooked Lines
Vincent and Louise were at best an improbable couple. We are blessed to know the outcomes of the 35-year intersection of these two lives. In their final chapters, they were true collaborators and equals.
Are We Afraid of the Body of Christ?
Do we understand “Body of Christ”? If we do how does it challenge our way of thinking and the systems we live with?
Cancel Memorial Day?
Memorial Day began as a rememberance of those who died in the Civil War and then extended to all wars. What has happened to the visits to cemeteries and parades?
An Ordination Litany – Then and Now
“Our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but to all over the world, and to do what? To set people’s hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with his love.” St. Vincent
Trinity – Puzzle or a Journey Into Community?
For me, it has been a journey from thinking of the Trinity as a puzzle to be solved to realizing the Trinity is a model for my life.
Are We Ministerial Rip Van Winkles?
As Vincentians we need to recognize this revolution will reinforce the already existing structures of poverty.
Structural information poverty should be a concern of all the followers of Vincent.
Eavesdropping in the Upper Room
What stories Mary could have told! She could have shared much about Jesus that you and I need to hear today… and what we as a Church need to hear.
Pentecost – Event or Process?
Pentecost – Event or Process? As we celebrate the event, we should never lose sight of Pentecost as an ongoing process in our lives.