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16 August 2023
- 05:5905:59, 16 August 2023 diff hist +65 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
9 August 2023
- 19:5719:57, 9 August 2023 diff hist +8 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 19:5519:55, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,060 N Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Win with the Victorious over the World '''Jesus has overcome the world. That is why those who put their faith and trust in him cannot but win in face of trials, woes, doubts.''' It seems that it would not be hard for the early Church to win over others. For [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+5%3A13-14&version=NRSVCEo others spoke highly of the Christians and joined them in great numbers]. Yet the truth is that it has not always been smooth sailing..." current
- 19:4919:49, 9 August 2023 diff hist +66 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
2 August 2023
- 20:1720:17, 2 August 2023 diff hist −4 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 20:1420:14, 2 August 2023 diff hist +8,308 N Transfiguration of the Lord, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''God-with-us in Our Joys and Our Griefs Jesus, God-with-us, is the first of the brothers and sisters who rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. There is a [https://religionnews.com/2023/07/27/as-organized-religion-falters-the-devil-falls-on-hard-times/ report] that fewer folks in the U.S. believe in God and, one can guess, in God-with-us. For the number of believers in the U.S. is down to 58% from 68%, in 2001. Would it be out of place to ask..." current
- 19:3419:34, 2 August 2023 diff hist +59 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
26 July 2023
- 23:2423:24, 26 July 2023 diff hist −8 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 No edit summary current
25 July 2023
- 19:3019:30, 25 July 2023 diff hist −19 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 19:2819:28, 25 July 2023 diff hist +7,339 N Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Supreme Value of the Kingdom of God '''On top of being the scribe who is trained in the kingdom of heaven, Jesus embodies also the supreme value that this kingdom is.''' The teaching is clear that the kingdom of heaven is the supreme value. For there is this saying: “[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A33&version=RSVCE Seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things will be yours besides].” And the parables of the bur..."
- 19:2319:23, 25 July 2023 diff hist +67 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter Tag: Manual revert
- 19:2119:21, 25 July 2023 diff hist −67 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter Tag: Manual revert
- 19:2119:21, 25 July 2023 diff hist +67 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
19 July 2023
- 21:0221:02, 19 July 2023 diff hist −19 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 21:0121:01, 19 July 2023 diff hist +7,454 N Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Rush to Condemn and to Exclude '''Lowly, meek and patient, Jesus bears with the weak and annoying. We learn from him to bear with one another and not rush to judge.''' A church lector tells another church lector that he would love to be heaven’s gatekeeper. That is to say, to be the one separating one from another those at the gate seeking to get in. He would place the politicians from the Republican party on his right and those of the Democratic party on his l..." current
- 20:4820:48, 19 July 2023 diff hist +65 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter Tag: Manual revert
- 20:4620:46, 19 July 2023 diff hist −65 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter Tag: Manual revert
- 20:4520:45, 19 July 2023 diff hist +65 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
16 July 2023
- 02:0502:05, 16 July 2023 diff hist +30 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 02:0302:03, 16 July 2023 diff hist +5,920 N Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Optimists, for They Rely on the Word '''Jesus is at once the Good News of the kingdom and he that preaches it. He wants us to be optimists, preaching with him bountifully, not sparingly.''' We can say that today’s three readings invite us to be optimists. The first gives hope and comfort to those of God’s chosen people who live in exile in Babylon. They have reason, that is to say, to be optimists due to God’s word that creates and bears much fruit. The s..." current
- 01:5901:59, 16 July 2023 diff hist +65 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
5 July 2023
- 02:0502:05, 5 July 2023 diff hist +11 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 02:0202:02, 5 July 2023 diff hist +6,249 N Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Yoke That Is Easy, Burden That Is Light '''Jesus soothes those who are weary and carry heavy burden. To take his yoke and learn from him is to know the Father and find rest and ease.''' In wonder, Jesus thanks the Father. For, though Lord of heaven and earth, the Father favors with revelation the little folks. He does not despise them as the wise and the learned do. These put also on others the yoke of the law. That is to say, [https://www.biblegateway.com/pass..." current
- 01:5801:58, 5 July 2023 diff hist +66 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
4 July 2023
- 01:2201:22, 4 July 2023 diff hist +4 Second Sunday of Advent, Year A-2022 No edit summary current
30 June 2023
- 03:4103:41, 30 June 2023 diff hist −16 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary Tag: Manual revert
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- 03:3903:39, 30 June 2023 diff hist −16 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 03:3703:37, 30 June 2023 diff hist +5,369 N Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Paradoxes: Signs of the New Creation '''Jesus brings in the new creation. The paradoxes that he lives and teaches let us know what the new creation means.''' Jesus uses hard sayings and paradoxes to announce the Good News. And there are, in today’s gospel, examples of these hard sayings and paradoxes. For sure, Jesus [https://cmglobal.org/vincentiana/cgi-bin/library.cgi?e=q-00000-00---off-0vincenti--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-----dtx--0-1l--11-en-50--..." current
- 03:3303:33, 30 June 2023 diff hist +67 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
22 June 2023
- 05:3505:35, 22 June 2023 diff hist −14 Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 No edit summary current
- 00:4900:49, 22 June 2023 diff hist +10 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 00:4500:45, 22 June 2023 diff hist +5,815 N Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Fears the Sent Ones Must Overcome '''Jesus comes to his own people and they persecute him. His fate is the fate, too, of his disciples. They waver, then, due to their fears.''' Jesus senses the fears that his apostles harbor. These are the twelve disciples he sends to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And their fears are not groundless. After all, he has just told the Twelve of the [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+10%3A16-24&version=NR..."
- 00:4000:40, 22 June 2023 diff hist +64 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter Tag: Manual revert
- 00:3800:38, 22 June 2023 diff hist −64 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter Tag: Manual revert
- 00:3700:37, 22 June 2023 diff hist +64 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
19 June 2023
- 05:5805:58, 19 June 2023 diff hist +14 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 05:5605:56, 19 June 2023 diff hist +5,081 N Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Sheep Who Do Not Have a Shepherd '''Jesus, the Good Shepherd, seeks the good of the sheep. He is not like those who steal, slaughter and destroy as they seek their own good.''' Jesus has compassion for the crowds, for they are troubled and abandoned like sheep that have no shepherd. A circumstance, then, triggers his compassion. That is to say, he does not seek to help humanity, abstract, far, universal, but concrete folks, near, particular He focuses, yes, on t..." current
- 05:5105:51, 19 June 2023 diff hist +64 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
8 June 2023
- 20:1520:15, 8 June 2023 diff hist −7 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 20:1120:11, 8 June 2023 diff hist +5,831 N The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Table to Which Jesus Invites us '''Jesus gives us his flesh to eat and his blood to drink. To sit down at his table means to be one with him and with others.''' Jesus tells the Jews, that is to say, the Jewish religious authorities, that the bread he will give is his flesh. This gives rise to a quarrel among them. And they end up saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Maybe they cannot but imagine a disgusting table, sickening. What they say b..." current
- 20:0320:03, 8 June 2023 diff hist +70 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
3 June 2023
- 17:5817:58, 3 June 2023 diff hist +11 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 17:5617:56, 3 June 2023 diff hist +6,099 N Trinity Sunday, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Savor the Love that God Has for Us '''Jesus shows the depth of God’s love to the end. To savor such love is to know the One who creates us and is with us and makes us breathe.''' Those who cherish the law, the Torah, savor it, for they find it to be [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+19%3A10&version=NRSVCE sweeter than honey]. So, Jesus who fulfills the law and the prophets, teaches with delight, no doubt, that [https://www.biblegateway.com/pass..." current
- 17:4717:47, 3 June 2023 diff hist +46 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Sundays in Ordinary Time Post Easter
28 May 2023
- 19:3619:36, 28 May 2023 diff hist +1 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 19:3319:33, 28 May 2023 diff hist +5,891 N Pentecost Sunday, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Breath that Creates, Gives Life and Renews '''Jesus, the Good Shepherd, has come so that his followers, his sheep, may have life and have it to the full. He passes on to them his breath.''' In the Acts of the Apostles, fifty days separate Pentecost from Easter. But that is not so in John’s Gospel that we hear or read today. Here, Jesus blows his breath on his disciples and gives them the Holy Spirit. And this takes place on the evening of the same Sunday of hi..." current
- 19:2819:28, 28 May 2023 diff hist +48 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Easter
20 May 2023
- 07:0607:06, 20 May 2023 diff hist −12 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 07:0507:05, 20 May 2023 diff hist +21 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
