by Javier F. Chento | Apr 29, 2016 | Collaboration, News
A meeting with extramural (correspondent) students (studying family consulting and catechetics as major) from the Institute of St. Thomas Aquinas and took place in the “God’s Gift” House in Kiev. Volunteers from Vincentian Family, Sisters of Mary of Miraculous Medal,...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 28, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
We have just finished our yearly celebration of Jesus Christ’s victory over death and sin. The Easter Triduum is the center of the liturgical life of the Church and the vital core where believers find the be-all and end-all of their existence. Because God the Father...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 21, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
We are entering the most important liturgical time for the people of God: we celebrate the passion of Jesus Christ, the death that begets life and confirms the commitment of God the Father to His Son Jesus Christ and to all humanity through Him. In celebrating the...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 14, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Dreaming is not escaping reality. “It is to undermine obvious facts to break their hold on people, to abandon deliberately the paths of obedience, to project oneself into a reality that we daringly think is different” (Myriam Tonus, “Dangereuse l’utopie?” in La Libre...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 7, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
A few months ago, I went to visit a friend, an elderly Daughter of Charity. She has retired from all service activity, not because she is already in her eighties, but…because of her illnesses. If it were up to her, she would continue to do something, however...
