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The betrayal of friends, the loss of a good reputation, the hardships of injustice \u2013 all your most recent experiences are the daily fare of thousands of people. \u00a0So now you have a choice, you can respond to this painful experience by lashing out in revenge and violent self-defense, or by patient endurance. Revenge will bring a momentary satisfaction, but it will be superficial and brief. \u00a0Patient endurance will bring, in the end, justice, and, for the time being, spiritual growth \u2013 the source of lasting and true satisfaction. Today\u2019s saint is proof of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most people think of the worldwide charitable works association that bears his name when they hear \u201cSt Vincent de Paul\u201d. \u00a0That, however, was founded a couple centuries later, in his honor and in perfect harmony with his active concern for the poor and needy, but not by him personally. \u00a0He actually founded a bunch of other organizations, including a congregation of priests dedicated to giving spiritual attention to the French peasants (that congregation ended up going international \u2013 carrying out country missions and directing seminaries &#8211; even in his lifetime) and a religious order of women whose \u201cconvent is the sickroom, chapel the parish church, whose cloister is the streets of the city,\u201d in other words, they were dedicated to serving the spiritual and corporeal needs of the poor. \u00a0He ransomed over 1200 Christian slaves in Africa, was spiritual advisor to kings and counts, queens and countesses, and established dozens of hospitals for the neediest and most destitute, especially orphans and galley-slaves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He undertook all these projects after starting out as a comfort-loving cleric with a quick-temper and a despondent character. \u00a0But two things happened to change all that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first place, he was captured and enslaved by Muslim traders. \u00a0Pirates took him when he was traveling with some fellow Frenchmen off the coast of Marseilles. \u00a0His little boat resisted seizure, so the pirates proceeded to dismember the captain once they had taken it over. \u00a0Eventually Vincent was taken to Tunis (in Northern Africa), humiliated (as all slaves), and auctioned off to a fisherman. \u00a0Then he was sold to a pharmacist. A goodly old gentlemen, the pharmacist lectured the saint elaborately on alchemy and the Islamic faith. \u00a0When he died and left Vincent to a younger relative, he was sold once again, to a farmer who had abandoned his Christian faith and taken three wives. \u00a0Working in the fields, St Vincent\u2019s example and virtue moved the heart of one of the Muslim wives, such that she began scolding her husband for having apostatized. \u00a0Eventually, the owner repented, and both he and the slave escaped back to France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During all this harrowing experience, he was thrown back on his own faith \u2013 only prayer and intimate communion with Christ enabled him to endure the tortures and abuse of the traders, and the humiliation and hardship of slavery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once he returned to France, he took up residence in a Parisian boarding house. \u00a0And that\u2019s when the second chapter of his transformation was written. A fellow clergyman accused him of theft and slandered him throughout the city (this happened just after he was ordained). \u00a0For six years he bore the injustice graciously, defending himself only by saying \u201cGod knows the truth.\u201d Imagine that. For six years, all the people in the circles wherein he moved thought he was a thief; they talked behind his back, pointed fingers, gossiped, laughed, insulted\u2026 \u00a0And he kept silent, didn\u2019t insist on justice, didn\u2019t demand his rights. Through it all he continued to learn the lesson his stint as a slave had taught him: the comforts and pleasures of this world are undependable. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After six years the thief ended up turning himself in, and St Vincent\u2019s good named was cleared. \u00a0Thereafter he began to look more for how he could serve others than how he could take care of himself, and thus began the truly incredible flurry of apostolic activity that transformed an entire epoch on an entire continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you see, the sufferings you find yourself in could either be the death of your faith \u2013 they could turn you into a skeptic and a cynic and an egoist \u2013 or they could be the first step on the road to true spiritual maturity, along with the fecundity, meaning, and joy that comes in its wake. \u00a0It\u2019s up to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your devoted uncle, Eddy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Paolo, You have begun to live. \u00a0Until now you have inhabited a false world, but those recent events have brought you into the real world. \u00a0Yes, my sad nephew, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":145992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3719],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-142598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncle-eddy"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"","pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010. He provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson\u2019s\u00a0The Passion of the Christ\u00a0while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller,\u00a0Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scenes explanation of the film. Fr. John has contributed news commentary regarding religious issues on NBC, CNN, Fox, and the BBC. He also served as the English-language press liaison for the Vatican\u2019s 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist. His most widely known books are The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer and 60 Days to Becoming a Missionary Disciple. His most recent book is\u00a0Spiritual But Not Religious: The Search for Meaning in a Material World. Fr. John resides in Atlanta and serves as Territorial Vicar for the Legionaries of Christ. See all books, Regnum Christi Essays, Retreat Guides, posts, and online classes from Fr. 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