These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Saint Vincent de Paul, September 27

There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every thing under the heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die. God has put the timeless into their hearts, without man’s ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done. (Eccl 3:1-11)
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To everything there is a season . . . this famous passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes invites us all to reflect on the direction of our lives. Saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660), who was the Mother Teresa of his time, had the gift of recruiting everyday people to do beautiful things for God by caring for the poor.