Simon François de Tours (1606-1671), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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St Vincent de Paul developed what he called his ‘little method’ of preaching for his fellow ‘mission priests and brothers’ in 17th century. France. We know that St Vincent de Paul is a champion of the materially poor, but did you know he was also deeply engaged in helping the materially poor out of spiritual poverty, as well. He dedicated his life to preaching Parish missions to poor and rural areas throughout France, as well as great clerical reform for French priests, as well.

And his ‘little method’ of preaching which is threefold, was at the center of both - his parish missions in poor communities as well as updated instruction on preaching for Priests after ordination.

Today, we are going to jump into this ‘method’ and see how it might still apply to us almost 400 years later in our ministry today…

Here’s a link to the document that includes his teaching on the “little method”. It starts on actual page of PDF (270) and concludes on actual page of PDF (293). The internal pagination runs from p 237 to p 260.

https://via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=vincentian_ebooks

Image of St Vincent de Paul comes from “Simon François de Tours (1606-1671), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons”

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