Gaze that brings life and makes holy

Gaze that brings life and makes holy

by | Dec 30, 2015 | Formation, Reflections

God’s gaze is on the lowly. He wants to turn slaves into adopted children. But how do those favored with God’s glance prove themselves? Possessing a penetrating gaze, God bypasses someone with an impressive appearance. He takes from the pasture the youngest, the last,...
Gaze that brings life and makes holy

Family of an unusual love

by | Dec 27, 2015 | Formation, Reflections

God wants us, who belong to his family now, to love to the end. Interestingly, bêt’āb in Hebrew, literally “the father’s house,” is translated too as “family,” which indicates the patriarchal character of the Hebrew family. But, of course, there is in God no male...
What Can I Give?

What Can I Give?

by | Dec 25, 2015 | Formation, Reflections

This is to give the greatest gift: to go out from ones self and to enter the world of the “other,” is to understand the meaning of Christmas. For this journey, there are five virtues, seen by Vincent as those characteristic of Jesus, missionary of God the...
Can I go to them?

Can I go to them?

by | Dec 23, 2015 | Daughters of Charity, Formation, Reflections

Can I go to them? This is the question Pope Francis asked when he learned that three people were killed in a neighborhood of Bangui, capital of the war-torn Central African Republic. It wasn’t in the schedule so the Pope immediately asked the Nuncio: ‘can I go, can I...