FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

The last 4 years of VINCENTIANA are now available online in three languages (click on graphic). Earlier volumes of this official international journal are also  available. We welcome comments via the “Contact Us” link on this page.

Famvin.org has restructured the way it can be searched and made other improvements. By way of a quick example try the following search for Maloney, one of the most popular writers on matters Vincentian.

In an article which asks, “Where are our saints?”, Sister of Charity Miriam Teresa Demjanovich’s name is mentioned. Read the article and, if you haven’t already done so, take a look at the evolving entry at Vincentian Encyclopedia.

Here are some things to look at and share as his feast day — Sunday — approaches: The Life, Times, and Words of Frederic Ozanam includes a treasury of quotations; the Vincentian Center for Church and Society also hosts what might be the most in depth site on the Web about him

The following article on the “popular misssions” appeared in VINCENTIANA 2/2001, March-April.Vincentiana 2/2001, March-April

by Atilano G. Fajardo CM

Province of the Philippines

If the poor remain without access to information technology, they will be further marginalized and locked into a cycle of poverty.

(General Assembly 1998 – Congregation of the Mission)

Introduction

The dawn of the third millennium [...]

By Richard Devine, C.M.

Province of USA-East

The C.M. at the UN

In his address to the General Assembly in July of 1998, the Superior General, Fr. Robert Maloney, indicated that the Congregation had begun the process of seeking “recognition at the United Nations as an NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) so that we might participate on the many committees [...]

“The Mission of the Eastern Province in Panama ” by John Prager, C.M.,
Province of USA-East, originally appeared in VINCENTIANA, Spring 2001

Antecedents

The unique geography of the isthmus has marked the history and development of Panama for centuries. In colonial times mules transported people and goods the short fifty miles between the oceans. In the [...]

“Vincentian Higher Education Apostolate in the United States”
by Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M.
Province of USA-East
and Edward R. Udovic, C.M.
Province of USA-Midwest, first appeared in the Spinrg 2001 issue of VINCENTIANA

In an audience held on 29 January 2001, Pope John Paul II observed that “education is a central element of the Church’s ‘Option for the Poor.’” [...]

“The Congregation of the Mission in the United States: An Historical Survey”
By John Rybolt, C.M.
Director of CIF appeared in Vincentiana, Spring, 2001
1. Roman Mission, 1815-1835

The Congregation of the Mission in the United States began with the arrival of four Italian Vincentians from the Province of Rome. They came to America in 1815 at [...]

The editorial
council of Vincentiana decided to dedicate an issue of the magazine to the new
Constitutions of the Congregation.

Vincentiana,
July-October/2000

The Constitutions: Unity in the Diviersity

of the Congregation of the Mission

By J. Ignacio Fernández
de Mendoza, C.M.

Vicar General

The present Constitutions, as Fr. Richard Mc
Cullen declared in his introductory letter to them, are the result of
“seventeen years of study, [...]