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…
read moreBy 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…
read moreBy 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…
read moreBy Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development Serviens in spe, reads the Society’s motto, Serving in Hope. Hope can be a powerful feeling, a state of mind…
read moreBy 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…
read moreBy 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…
read moreBy 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…
read moreBy 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…
read moreBy 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…
read moreBy Timothy Williams, Senior Director of Formation & Leadership Development Blessed Frédéric and his friends founded the Society in 1833 in answer to a challenge posed to them by another…
read moreBy 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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