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Showing posts with label Fraternal Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fraternal Love. Show all posts
Monday, 2 September 2024

Biblical purity explained by Pope Francis

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  Image Credit: McGill University The Pope's Sunday Angelus address for yesterday reported by Zenit Biblical purity explained by the Po...
Thursday, 4 January 2024

Fasting that shines a light and heals wounds

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Sunday, 17 July 2022

Anxious and Troubled?

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This Sunday's gospel reading about the visit of Jesus to the home of Martha and Mary generates more than its fair share of popular opini...
Monday, 11 July 2022

The Good Samaritan - a Vincentian Take

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For a good part of my life, Jesus' parable of the Good Samaritan left me feeling very conflicted and burdened with guilt. On the one han...
Sunday, 12 June 2022

Campfire Bread Twists - Happy Feast Day

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  As a boy, when I was a scout, we enjoyed a very simple bread by making a dough from flour and water which we twisted around a stick and ba...
Monday, 14 March 2022

Let God do the Rest

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  Our presence is the real evangelization and we need to let God do the rest. By Deacon Steve “Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-...
Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Shalom - Conference Spiritual Reading

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irisphoto2 - Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Conference spiritual reading chosen by Deacon Steve Pitre “When the Lord greeted his disciples...
Sunday, 14 March 2021

Giving in helpless passivity - Conference Reading

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  For almost all of his public life Jesus was actively doing something.  However, from the moment he walks out of the Last Supper room and b...
Thursday, 14 January 2021

Conference Spiritual Reading 11 Jan 2021

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  Spiritual Reading for January 11, 2021 - selected by Deacon Steve “And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but commun...
Friday, 4 December 2020

A Special Solidarity - Fratelli Tutti of Pope Francis

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  Here is an excerpt from ' Fratelli Tutti ' , the latest encyclical letter of Pope Francis on fraternity and social friendship. Thi...
Sunday, 22 November 2020

How does King Jesus want to be served?

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  Christ of the Breadlines - Fritz Eichenberg Today's parable tells us that the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe, chos...
Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Conference Reading - Sharing what we have been given

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  "Let the people we encounter know about God through the lives we lead..." Conference spiritual reading selected by Deacon Steve....
Sunday, 25 October 2020

You shall not molest or oppress an alien

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Following is an extract from a reflection on the Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time by Steven P Millies The Gospel from Matthew today (Matth...
Sunday, 2 August 2020

He Had Compassion

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Here is an extract from the Pope's noonday Angelus comments on todays's Gospel about the multiplication of the loaves and fishes:...
Saturday, 25 July 2020

How can little ol' me serve other people?

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Follow me... Nowhere in Scripture does Jesus tell his followers to worship him but there are numerous places where he says or commands...
Thursday, 16 July 2020

Love covers over a multitude of sins

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1 Peter 4:8    (Image credit: Zondervan.com) Whenever I read the account of the sheep being separated from the goats in chapter 25 of t...
Monday, 6 July 2020

Working Together and the Need for Friendship

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Christian Verheyde, in his book, " 15 Days of Prayer with Blessed Frederic Ozanam ," has a chapter titled, "The Problem of...
Thursday, 2 April 2020

The People We Serve

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This coming Sunday will be Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, marking the start of Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum beginning with Ho...
Monday, 13 January 2020

Three Essential Elements of Vincentian Life

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Among the essential elements to our work and life as Vincentians there are, at least, three. The most obvious of these, in the public ...