1. We
should obtain our bread after sweating as Vincent urges us.
2. We
should share what we have and not rely on outside assistance
3. We
should tell the poor they are our partners.
4. We
should live in poverty ourselves with them. This should
be experienced in formation for example in doing manual.
5. We
should accept mortification as a life constraint.
6. You
need to broaden your horizons to take the whole picture of poverty.
7. You
should not deny your poor origins.
8. You
should live and be committed to living a simple lifestyle.
9. You
should know the experience of Vincent, know how life has changed
and be
as
concerned as he was about those the world considers disposable.
10.
We should work as the family of St. Vincent DePaul.
11. We
should always emphasize practical service.
12. We
should always offer the poor our best and not tolerate mediocrity
or slip-
shot
and unprepared work in our dealings with them.
13. We
should live lives of determination to see our work with the poor
through to
14. We
should share what we have with outsiders.
15. We
should train our students in ways of approaching the poor.
16. We
should fast and distribute the excess money to the poor.
17. We
should realize it is going take hard work to bring people out
of their misery.
18. We
should know the poor so as to love them and become good at reading
events
so to hear them clearly.
19. We
are a religious family who sacrifices so to lead people out of
their misery.
20. We
should respect and be friendly to the poor.
21. We
should use our possessions prudently and appropriately.
1. It
has been an experience of powerlessness.
2. It
is an experience of being dependent on God; there is only so
much we can do.
3. Our
hearts have been touched with compassion at the plight of the
poor.
4. It
has made us want to regular act on behalf of the poor.
5. We
have been touched by the sufferings of families now that the
government has
resigned
from educating children.
6. It
has made me keep in mind my own origins so to understand the
poor better.
7. It
has made me have more confidence in God.
8. We
have been moved by students stories of serving the poor and how
it has
become
the centre of their vocation.
9. I
lived through WWII and all the deprivation it caused so I want
to help them.
10.
Experience of the poor has made me more determined to find new
ways to help
11. It
is a humbling experience when you realize how little you can
do.
12. It
has made me realize I? personally poor too.
13. I
dislike suffering in others and wish I could take their place.
2. He
lives a life of mortification.
3. He
tries to find others to help him with the poor.
4. He
does not find it an obstacle to staying with the poor because
he is living
in
a community that does this.
5. He
is concerned about the Vincentian community in which he lives
and does not
isolate
himself solely to serve the poor.
6. He
sees and takes initiative on behalf of the poor.
7. He
never demands things for his own well being.
8. He
experiences something and then responds immediately to the poor.
9. He
gives the poor his time and generously listens to them.
10. He
is conscious of our charism and can explain it.
11. He
does not abandon the poor in times of trouble and war.
12. He
works more and more with other parts of the Vincentian family.
13. He
is spontaneous and outgoing towards the poor.
14. He
is accustomed to service.
15. He
is involved in developmental projects.
1. He
lacks creativity and initiative.
2. He
lacks respect for community property.
3. He
lacks a spirit of co-responsibility, community spirit and a sense
of responding
to
the poor with our resources as a communal decision.
4. All
his projects are based on his own individual desires.
5. He
asks for things for the poor but doesn? give it to them.
6. He
lacks interest in what the confreres are doing both in his house
and province.
7. He
moves to stay with prominent and big people for his own self
interest.
8. He
misappropriate money given for projects for the poor.
9. He
cares only for his own tribe.
10. He
is just for his family.
11. They
pursue and are glad about their status and their privilege.
12. They
are very self-absorbed.
13. They
lack a sense of pastoral care and do not want to be trained.
14. They
want to flee their own poverty and do not want to go back to
poverty to
15. They
do not have any interest in pastoral care for the poor.
16. They
are terrified of the poor.
17. They
seek rich and influential friends.
18. They
reject the guidance of the province relative to their work and
behavior.
19. They
search for promotion.
20. They
search for luxuriousness and establish a class system in the
province based
21. They
do not report their true activities.
22. The
seminarian is capable but not motivate.
23. The
student is hypocritical and motivated only by fear of being dismissed.
24. The
student lacks a spirit of self-mortification.
1. They
live their baptismal call to service deeply.
2. They
act in the name of the community always in matters of charity.
3. The
superior will be willing to give an accounting of the books.
4. A
confrere helps establish and then holds himself to whatever mechanisms
of
accountability
which exist in the house.
5. They
pray?hich is a sign that something is going on.
6. They
know they must prepare themselves to work with the poor.
7. They
are willing to learn the leadership skills needed to serve the
poor.
8. It
begins to dawn on the confrere that the sheep are without a shepherd
and he
is
called to be that shepherd.
9. There
is a willingness to go where he is sent.
10. As
a seminarian he is open to criticism.
11. His
horizons are expanding and there is an awareness of this.
12. You
can observe steps as indicated in the outline on conversion.
13. He
is honest; he gives an honest report of his work with the poor.
14. He
accepts his own limitations.
