Vincentian Reflections: Fifth Sunday of Lent

Gospel: (John 11:1-45)  So Jesus came to the tomb.  It was a cave, and a stone lay across it.  Jesus said, “Take away  the stone.”  Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four  days.”  Jesus said to her,...

Vincentian Reflections: May 24, 2020

Gospel: (Matthew 28:16-20)  The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. Then they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.  Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and earth has been given to me. Go,...

Vincentian Reflections: Fourth Sunday of Lent

Gospel: (John 9:1-41)  As Jesus passed by he saw a man blind from birth.  His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made...

Vincentian Reflections: Third Sunday of Lent

Gospel: (John 4:5-42) Jesus came to a town of Samaria …Jacob’s well was there.  Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well.  It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”  …The Samaritan woman said to...

Homeless for the First Time at 73 Years Old

Maureen is smart, funny and more than a little bit feisty. At 73 years old she’s as proud of her Native American heritage as she is of her self-sufficiency. For 38 years Maureen worked with animals at the Cincinnati Zoo, and for the last 22 years she has lived in the...