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January 2025: Rekindling Our Hope
In the spirit of the Jubilee Year of Hope when we reflect on our identity as pilgrims of Hope, I would like to invite us to reflect on the theme of Hope, and how we can rekindle our hope. It comes naturally to us that we cannot live without hope. A parent cares and feeds… Read more
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November 2024: Be God’s Instrument in a Broken World
We are to be God’s instrument in a broken world: As a Vincentian consider the words of St. Vincent Ferrer: “Whatever you do, think not of yourself, but of God.” For by the grace given to me I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than one ought to think, but… Read more
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Saint Vincent de Paul and the Eucharist
Love is Inventive to Infinity St. Vincent’s famous saying that “love is inventive to infinity” was his explanation of the Eucharist in his “Exhortation to a Dying Brother” in 16471. Read and meditate on his words: “Furthermore, since love is inventive to infinity, after being affixed to the infamous stake of the cross to win… Read more
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Blessed Frédéric Ozanam and the Eucharist
United with Each Other Frédéric remembered his First Communion as one of the most significant days of his life: “I made my first communion May 11, 1826… Day of happiness, may my hand wither and my tongue cleave to my palate if I ever forget it! I changed greatly then. I became modest, good, docile,… Read more
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St. Louise de Marillac and the Eucharist
Never Again Separated from Him In 1632, St. Louise explained the Eucharist as an instrument of conformity to the Divine Will1 Holy Communion with the Body of Jesus Christ causes us truly to participate in the joy of the Communion of Saints in Paradise. This joy was merited for us by the Incarnation and the… Read more
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Blessed Rosalie Rendu and the Eucharist
Christ in the Catacombs Born and baptized in 1786, it was under the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution that Bl. Rosalie Rendu’s earliest faith life was born and fed. Little Jeanne-Marie, called Marie by her family, learned from her parents a simple and generous manner. From the youngest age, following their example, she… Read more
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October Reflection- Lord Work Through Us
Ephesians: Chapter 1:3-8: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. In love he destined us for adoption… Read more
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September Reflection on the Gospel of Mark 8:1-13, the ‘Feeding of the Four Thousand’
In Mark 8:2, Jesus says, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days, and have nothing to eat”. Although the word ‘compassion’ is use in the English text, the actual word used in Greek has a much more sorrowful meaning. The Greek word used in verse is ‘splagchnizomai’, which… Read more