Apr 21, 2021 | Mission Integration
Small changes can make a big difference when working to reduce your environmental footprint. Here is a list of practices that our sponsors, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, recommend we do, as part of their Ecological Sustainability program that you can implement...
Apr 7, 2021 | Mission Integration
Joy, relief, and tears. All at once. In so many moments of life, relief opens floodgates to feelings we were holding just under the surface. Hugging your family for the first time after quarantine. Finding out that test was negative. Ringing the bell after a last...
Mar 17, 2021 | Mission Integration
“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” (Psalm 22:1) Warm sun, shouts of laughter and joy, riding on the back of a donkey. Holy Week begins victoriously on Palm Sunday with Jesus welcomed into Jerusalem as one who “comes in the name of the Lord.” A crowd lines...
Mar 3, 2021 | Mission Integration
The Seven Last Words of Jesus Christ uttered while he was nailed to the cross on Calvary, where He died for our sins, provide us with a lasting example of how we must live our lives today. “We already know where the voracious greed for power, the imposition of one’s...
Feb 17, 2021 | Mission Integration
Return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow in anger, and abounding in steadfast love. (Joel 2:12-13) Prayer Loving...
Feb 3, 2021 | Mission Integration
In the last issue of Spark, we explained the Vincentian value of Spirituality. We follow Jesus’ healing mission to not only care for physical affliction, but to touch people at the deepest level of their existence, and seek to heal physically, mentally and...
