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VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO THE POOR

VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO THE POOR. 1. Vincent de Paul always looked at the human person as a whole – a spiritual, moral, political, social, cultural being, including also their economic hopes and concerns.

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VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO THE POOR

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  1. VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO THE POOR 1. Vincent de Paul always looked at the human person as a whole – a spiritual, moral, political, social, cultural being, including also their economic hopes and concerns.

  2. VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO THE POOR • St. Vincent de Paul – Poverty is not the will of God. • It defaces the dignity of every poor person and the image of God in them.

  3. VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO THE POOR 2. St. Vincent de Paul - Poverty is also a possible event of our salvation. • Vincent saw in the poor the very person of Christ. • “In the person of the poor, you serve Jesus Christ. . . You serve Christ in the person of the poor.”

  4. VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO THE POOR 3. Vincent experienced how the poor brought him to God. The poor, to put it in contemporary terms, evangelized him. • “the net result of my experience on the matter is the judgment I have ever formed, that true religion – true religion, Gentlemen, is to be found among the poor. God enriches them with a lively faith; they believe, they touch, they taste the words of life. . .”

  5. VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO THE POOR • “We thought we went to help. We ended up receiving more than we have given.” • the poor are an integral part of our Family and not merely recipients of our benevolence and charity.

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