A Wise & Incorrupt Heart (TGH2)

Series: Trinitytide

September 27, 2018
Fr. Vaughn Treco

180927 - Homily - A Wise & Incorrupt Heart (TGH2)

Episode Notes

Homily - A Wise & Uncorrupt Heart (TGH2)

Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! 

What profit has man from all the laborwhich he toils at under the sun?

(Ecclesiastes 1:2)


  • On April 24, 1581, he was born in the French village of Pouy;
  • He came from poor peasant family;
  • He was first educated by the Franciscans, and excelled in his studies so much that
  • He was hired by a nearby wealthy family to tutor their children;
  • At age 15, his father sold the family oxen in order for him to enter the seminary to prepare for the priesthood;
  • While studying theology at the University of Toulouse, he also used the monies earned as a tutor to support himself;
  • In 1600, He was ordained to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ;
  • He was 19, five years younger than the age established by the Council of Trent;
  • In 1605, while traveling by ship from Marseilles to Narbone, he was captured, brought to Tunis and sold as a slave;
  • Two years later he and his master escaped from the Muslim lands and returned to France;
  • Upon his return, he completed his studies in Avignon and later in Rome;
  • This French priest was appointed chaplain to the Count of Goigny in Rome;
  • Who placed him in charge of distributing money to the deserving poor;
  • He spent his life for the poor!
  • He preached missions, provided relief, and established hospitals for them;
  • He founded the Ladies of Charity, a lay institute of woman;
  • As well as a religious institute of priests - the Congregation of Priests of the Mission, the Vincentians.
  • The Vincentians remain with us today with nearly 4,000 members in 86 countries. 
  • And, there are more than 18,000 Daughters today serving the needs of the poor in 94 countries.
  • He was eighty years old when he died in Paris on September 27, 1660, and
  • He had "become the symbol of the successful reform of the French Church". 

Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. (Psalm 90:5)


  • When Vincent de Paul’s body was exhumed, his heart was found to be incorrupt...
  • And, this saint’s heart remains so today!


Grant, O Lord, that we, by numbering our days arigh, might gain the wisdom of incorrupt hearts! 

O Sacred Heart of Jesus: Have mercy on us!



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Sources

St. Vincent de Paul - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=326


Vincent de Paul

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_de_Paul


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