{"id":805,"date":"2008-09-27T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/st-vincent-de-paul.html"},"modified":"2008-09-27T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T10:30:43","slug":"st-vincent-de-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/st-vincent-de-paul.html","title":{"rendered":"St. Vincent de Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the feast of St. Vincent de Paul –
\nHere’s a great blog post with lots of links\u00a0and resources<\/a>
\nSusan Stabile has a nice reflection<\/a><\/p>\n

Vincent looked at the faces of the poor and the marginalized and what he saw was the face of Christ. He completely took to heart Jesus\u2019 teaching that what we do for the least of our brothers and sisters, we do for Christ (and the corollary that when we ignore their needs, we ignore Christ). He once observed, \u201cWe cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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