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19 July 2023
- 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
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- 07:0007:00, 20 May 2023 diff hist +5,138 N Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Defend Those Who Are Poor and Helpless '''Jesus lives. That is why they see him and live those who believe in him, and love him. The Spirit of truth does not fail to defend them.''' Jesus takes leave of his disciples. For comes the hour for him to give his body up and to shed his blood. Hence, they are sad and in pain. And to lift them up, he says he will ask the Father to give them another Defender, the Spirit of truth. The Defender will be with them always...." current
- 06:5506:55, 20 May 2023 diff hist +5,685 N Ascension, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Emmanuel, That Is to Say, God-with-Us '''Jesus, [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+22%3A13&version=NRSVCE the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end], is [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mathew+1%3A23&version=NRSVCE Emmanuel, God-with-us]. He is with us always, until the end.''' The first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew proclaims that Jesus is Emmanuel, God-with-us. And the last chapter narrates t..." current
- 06:4906:49, 20 May 2023 diff hist +95 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Easter
4 May 2023
- 19:5019:50, 4 May 2023 diff hist +36 Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 No edit summary current
3 May 2023
- 20:1820:18, 3 May 2023 diff hist −7 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 20:1620:16, 3 May 2023 diff hist +4,812 N Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Splendor of Christ on the Cross '''Hanging on the cross, Jesus is clothed with the splendor of self-emptying love. He thus is the source of blessings.''' [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+13%3A21&version=NRSVCE Jesus was deeply troubled as he told his disciples that one of them would betray him]. This and the thought that he would soon suffer and die must have greatly saddened them. Needless to say, gloom, not splendor, has taken over. And so, h..."
- 20:1120:11, 3 May 2023 diff hist +54 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Easter
27 April 2023
- 17:5917:59, 27 April 2023 diff hist +11 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 17:5717:57, 27 April 2023 diff hist +8,196 N Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Grasp What Jesus Is, What He Says and Does '''Jesus who is close to the Father’s heart makes him known to us. It is crucial that we grasp what Jesus is, what he says and does.''' Those to whom Jesus speaks do not grasp what he teaches by way of a figure of speech. And they are not the disciples but the Pharisees. These asked him before, “[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+9%3A40&version=NRSVCE Are we blind also?]” And his reply was: “[ht..." current
- 17:5317:53, 27 April 2023 diff hist +55 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Easter
20 April 2023
- 18:0518:05, 20 April 2023 diff hist −14 m Third Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
- 05:3805:38, 20 April 2023 diff hist +5 Third Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 No edit summary
- 05:2105:21, 20 April 2023 diff hist +19 VincentWiki:Reflections/Current Reflection No edit summary
- 05:1905:19, 20 April 2023 diff hist +7,950 N Third Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 Created page with ":''Revive the Faith of The Faltering '''Jesus feeds us with his word and his body and blood. He makes us live and seeks to revive the faith of those who falter.''' For sure, Jesus did revive the hopes of those who longed to see their homeland free from the rule of Rome. Did he not do so, the crowds would not have cried out, as he entered Jerusalem: “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heavens.”..."
- 05:1005:10, 20 April 2023 diff hist +54 Reflections rooted in the Sunday Readings →Easter
15 April 2023
- 19:5719:57, 15 April 2023 diff hist +26 Second Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 19:3119:31, 15 April 2023 diff hist +1 Second Sunday of Easter, Year A-2023 No edit summary Tag: Visual edit: Switched
