“St. Vincent left a wonderful gift within the Church. He has placed it, to a large extent, in your hands and in mine. Pass it on to the young.” The Spirit is challenging Vincentians in the various branches of the Vincentian Family to identify and support people in naming and recognizing the gift and the tradition they stand in.
Hearing is the simple physiological act of hearing sounds. Listening means to pay attention to sound; to hear something with thoughtful attention, and to give consideration. Which type of listener are you?
There is so much we don’t know about what Jesus learned in his earliest years in Nazareth. We know Mary and Joseph were his first teachers. Almost everything else is conjecture. Yet there is much we can learn from Our Lady of Nazareth.
Each year we are reminded about a supersized dream. We all know the words “I have a dream”. It was a dream of loving one another. Jesus prayed … “that all may be one”.
Mothers often say “try it, you’ll like it”! I wonder of some today have rejected synodality without trying it or even understanding it.
There are many possible images of God. Which one seems more real to us can vary over time.
How is your current image working for you?
The Magi were “men with a restless heart seekers after God. In Jerusalem the Magi ask questions: they inquire where the Child is to be found.
St. Vincent de Paul looked beyond his horizons to find Christ.
Pope Francis serves as visiting professor in the Magi “school of desire”. What can they teach us especially if we are stuck in a “parking lot” of life.
If I were John the Baptist standing in the Jordan, I am sure I would have asked Jesus, “why are you asking me, a sinner, to baptize you?” What’s behind God speaking about his beloved son?
A simple explanation of why the Word of God took flesh and fully entered into our human condition. Emmanuel, God with us, the Word made flesh says, “Don’t worry, I have been through all this and will help you get through it.”
The list of top 20 Mindwalks for those who are curious. It seems to imply we are a group with varied interests.
Regina Bechtle connected the dots for me between Elizabeth Ann Seton, the feast of the Epiphany, and our “ordinary epiphanies”. She found her God precisely in the most ordinary of moments.
This inclusive way of seeing things, which transcends tensions by “keeping” and “pondering”, is the way of mothers, who, in moments of tension, do not divide, they keep, and in this way enable life to grow.