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Contemplation: A Cycle of Love

By Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  We serve, our Rule reminds us, for love alone. [Rule, Part I, 2.2] This does not mean we do it…

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Contemplation: Joy In Gratitude

By Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  In the times that our work seems difficult, and the problems of the neighbor or our Conference seems overwhelming, there…

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Contemplation: Providing What is Needed

By Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  One of the central tenets of Vincentian spirituality is trust in Divine Providence. We are called to trust that God…

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Contemplation: The Bashful Poor

By Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  Effective Conferences, our manual explains, are “reachable.” [Manual, 26] While most Conferences make every effort to ensure that their phone…

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Contemplation: The Way to Peace

By Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  Our little human minds and hearts can sometimes become so bound up in worry and anxiety that we find it…

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Contemplation: True Presence

By Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  Vincentians are doers, we are people of action. We love God, as St. Vincent said, “with the strength of our…

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Contemplation: To Wait for God’s Own Time

By Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  The church calls the laity to “fulfill their prophetic mission by evangelization” which has “peculiar efficacy because it is accomplished…

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Contemplation: To Discern, Not to Decide

By Tim Williams, Senior Director of Formation & Leadership Development In the Society of St Vincent de Paul, “all decisions are made by consensus after the necessary prayer, reflection and…

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