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Spiritual Reflection - February 2025

January 31st 2025 LIVE JUSTLY Love Tenderly Walk humbly with God (Micah 6:8) In the previous article I touched briefly on living justly and stated that according to John the Baptist, it is essential to conversion. Read more

Spiritual Reflection - November 2024

October 17th 2024 This article completes the sector on prayer for 2024.  "The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today." (St Francis of Assisi) Last week, I observed a woman being asked by a Read more

Spiritual Reflection - October 2024

September 23rd 2024 Once again, this article is meant to be read with those written for 2024, as part of the whole on the subject of prayer and its relevance to Vincentians. We {also} need to ask ourselves whether, out Read more

Spiritual Reflection - May 2024

April 29th 2024 DEALING WITH SIN This article is a continuation of the other essays produced for 2024 on the subject of prayer. Over the years of my life in the priesthood, I have been fortunate enough to work with Read more

Spiritual Reflection - April 2024

April 3rd 2024 What is written below is designed to be read with the other essays as promised for 2024. MY IMAGE OF GOD I love because I love I love that I might love Love gives pleasure of itself.  (St Bernard) Read more

Spiritual Reflection - February 2024

January 29th 2024 And his teaching made a deep impression on them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority  (Mk 1:22). The recently deceased National President of the St Vincent de Paul Society, Read more

Spiritual Reflection - January 2024

December 4th 2023 January 2023 WHERE IS THE POVERTY? A religious sister whom I worked with in my early years of priesthood, eventually spent some years in the 1980’s working in Ethiopia. I often thought of her, as Read more

Spiritual Reflection - December 2023

December 1st 2023 It is somewhat irritating as Christmas draws near, writing something relating to the Christian message, when there is a war going on between the peoples of Palestine and Israel. Fighting for peace Read more

Spiritual Reflection - November 2023

October 30th 2023 It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate task: that of creating our own lives. – Thomas Merton Thomas Merton had been a Trappist mo Read more

Spiritual Reflection - July 2023

May 29th 2023 Like the nectar of the flax flower Read more
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