Tag: St. Vincent de Paul

How does the disciple Vincent de Paul appropriate this challenge into his life and ministry? How do we imitate Christ in his passion?

His experience of consolation in ministry left a mark even on how he was addressed. It was in Clichy he was first called “Monsieur Vincent”

What we begin to see here is a different man from the one who had once sought opportunities for his own advancement

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