contributions of the vincentian charism : 2
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Before St. Vincent and St. Louise
The monastic ideal prevailed in the Church
Focus on individual
sanctification, personal perfection
Image: Temptation of Saint Anthony, by Bosch
men and women were called to abandon the solely inward-looking
vision of faith and life…
…called to a mission broader than themselves
in imitation of Jesus, the Missionary of the Father, the
Evangelizer of the poor
After St. Vincent and St. Louise
Vincent chose to send his priests and the Daughters of Charity to the peripheries,
to those who were abandoned.
They lived in community to draw strength from each other, for the sake of the mission
It took another three centuries for this to be framed in the theology
of the Church:
Mission or evangelization is really at the heart of
the Second Vatican Council.
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