Tag: St. Vincent de Paul

When men in high places intentionally blurt out misogynistic remarks in congress, it is a must to proclaim the dignity and power of women

Yet these failures and disasters did not discourage him because “present misfortune,” he believed, “presupposes good luck in the future.”

“I was sold to a fisherman,” Vincent said, “but as I have always been a bad sailor, he was soon obliged to get rid of me to an old alchemist”

St. Vincent’s early quest for status and office reveals how failed ambitions shaped his slow, grace-filled journey to conversion

Vincent de Paul did not only have a high IQ (intelligence quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient); he also had a good SQ (social quotient) and AQ (adversity quotient)

Knowing Vincent de Paul in his flesh and blood brings down the lifeless saint from the pedestal people have created for him

Vincentian spirituality believes that contemplation is also found in action, thinking is present in praxis, mysticism is located in service

Everyday kindness reveals how ordinary generosity in youth shaped St. Vincent de Paul’s later commitment to the poor

Vincent de Paul came from a humble family. They were neither very rich nor comfortably well-off, nor were they very poor and destitute