St. Vincent de Paul – World Tourism Day

FOCAL POINT:

“Examples of ministries which have had and still have a great significance for us are education and parish work.” (Con. 192)

Deceased:

Fr. Charles Mrowinski, 2008, Des Plaines, USA

Birthday:

Fr. Stanislaw Zaryczny, 1966, Poland

Ordination:

Fr. Jim Marcos Penaloza Polo, 2008, Brazil

1. For the deceased members of the Congregation, and for the one who will die first among us.
2. For all who travel as tourists, may they extend blessings of peace upon the houses they enter and the people who live there.
3. For the many Societies of St. Vincent de Paul – for their care and concern for the poor in their midst.

FURTHER REFLECTION:

“Blindness to this tendency to evil within a person is especially dangerous today when choices are so multiple and change happens so quickly,” (Eight Principles of Resurrectionist Spirituality, 69)