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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