In this Vincentian Mindwalk, I share thoughts about the wineskins or frameworks of our thinking about God.


In this Vincentian Mindwalk, I share thoughts about the wineskins or frameworks of our thinking about God.

Many of us either witnessed or were participants as children in appropriate costumes and props re-enacted the Nativity scene.
As adults we grew beyond these re-enactments.
Something Pope Francis wrote reminds me to think about recognizing that we act out various roles in our daily life.

As St. Vincent was becoming aware of the depth of many forms of poverty that he had not appreciated while growing up, Madame de Gondi asked Vincent. “What must be done?”
Reflecting on the state of our world, two questions come to mind “How can we live better?” and the core, key Vincentian question “What must be done”.
Is my concept of “my father’s house” too small? Do I need to enlarge how I think of “my father’s house”?
Evoking one of my favorite insights of the great theologian Karl Rahner, “forgotten truths”, Fr. Robert Maloney reminds the Vincentian Family of forgotten truths about our role in creation.