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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Another way my thinking about Lent has changed
Looking back I thank God for the “wake up” call to pay attention to whether my actions are signs of God’s love.
A Transforming Surprise – Encounter With Jesus
Jesus’ disciples experienced a transforming surprise.
God does not come to us in the way we want God to come. God comes to us in the ordinariness of our daily lives… if we open our eyes to see and hear, especially the cries of the poor… we will see God.
Frederic Ozanam Addresses Congress?
After viewing the presentation of Sr. Claire Sweeney, DC on Frederick Ozanam and Social Justice, I fantasized what he might say if he, like Pope Francis, were invited to address a joint session of Congress.
If Einstein Is Right About Insanity…
“Search out more than ever, with boldness, humility, and skill, the causes of poverty and encourage short and long term solution. By doing so, you will work for the credibility of the Gospel and of the Church.”
Experiencing a transforming encounter with God
God does not come to us in the way we want God to come. God comes to us in the ordinariness of our daily lives… if we open our eyes to see and hear, especially the cries of the poor… we will see God.
Can Mentoring Young People Change the World?
Pope Francis wrote… “(Youth) have asked us in a thousand ways to walk alongside them — not behind them or ahead of them, but at their side.”
Do You Remember 9/11… and 8/4?
DO you remember where you were on 8/4? Most adults in the United States can tell you where they were and what they were doing that fateful morning of 9/11. Even though it nearly 20 years ago, most can recall, and even perhaps relive their emotions as the events...
The Nun Who Woke Up To the Poor At Forty
“And it is there, in the faces of poor and struggling people, that I have found the most direct road to God.”