{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"hearthis.at","provider_url":"https:\/\/hearthis.at","height":"150","width":"100%","title":"The Servant of the Poor (Hymn to Saint Vincent de Paul)","description":"As the Vincentian Family prepares to celebrate the feast of **Saint Vincent de Paul on September 27**, we invite you to listen, sing, and reflect with this new hymn in his honor.\n\nIts words follow the traditional language and structure of a hymn, but its musical energy speaks to the present: direct, vibrant, and made to be sung with conviction. It remembers Vincent as a man who heard the cry of people in need, recognized Christ in those who were poor and abandoned, and refused to let compassion remain only a feeling.\n\nBut this is more than a song about Saint Vincent.\n\nIt is also a song addressed to us.\n\nWhen we sing, **\u201cSaint Vincent, guide our steps aright, \/ To love the lost, the weak, the poor,\u201d** we are asking for the courage to continue what he began. The hymn invites us not only to admire his life, but to make his vision our own\u2014to notice those others overlook, to turn faith into action, and to discover what it means to serve Christ in the people we encounter today.\n\n**Listen to the hymn. Sing it. Let its words become a prayer\u2014and perhaps a question: where is Saint Vincent\u2019s mission calling you now?**","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/img.hearthis.at\/2\/0\/8\/_\/uploads\/11371644\/image_track\/14620485\/w1200_h628_q70_ptrue_v2_m1786296807----cropped_1786296801802.jpg?m=1786296807","thumbnail_width":1200,"thumbnail_height":628,"html":"