VincentWiki:Reflections/01 2007

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? (Is. 43:19)

As I already mentioned in my previous reflection, those who do works of mercy, preaching the gospel “by words and by works,” are likened to Jesus Christ. They are “closely conformed to Our Lord Jesus Christ, who, it would seem, made it his principal task to assist and care for the poor,” taught St. Vincent de Paul repeatedly, those who preach the gospel affectively and effectively (cf. Father Maloney’s The Way of Vincent de Paul). To assist the poor, then, and to have them assisted in every way, is to imitate Jesus Christ.

Full Reflection: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C