FAMVIN: The International Vincentian Family

How does one anticipate a closure of such a significant event? Inspired by the March 6-14 pilgrimage masses in honor of St. Louise in the nine local houses of the Daughters of Charity in the National Capital Region, a nation-wide Saturday pilgrimage mass for nine days sponsored by the different branches of the Vincentian Family [...]

On June 20, 1647, St. Vincent cried out very spontaneously at a meeting of the General Council of the Daughters of Charity: “Oh, my God, how necessary it is to have great communication with one another. To share everything. There is nothing more necessary. That is what binds hearts together” (SV XIII, 641).

An Irish Times story reflects  extensive outrage at government cutbacks in services  for the intellectually disabled in Ireland  provided by the Daughters of Charity. For more detail of how the St Vincent’s Parent Partnership Forum is raising consciousness visit  their website.

To celebrate the 350th  the Vincentian Family in St. Louis will be recruiting   family and friends to serve with them at one of some 15 sites. Thus they will be living out their belief that to be Vincentian is to radiate God’s love through concrete action with and for persons living in poverty.

The Sisters of Charity Federation  July 2010 Newsletter  “NGO News” is available below. It features a report on the gathering of all the representatives, the status of Millennium Development Goals and many other valuable stories. Newsletter June 2010

Vinnies SVDP National Council Chief Executive, Dr John Falzon. writes in Eureka Street (Australia) that preventing homelessness is a justice issue that requires political will. “The founder of the St Vincent de Paul Society, 19th century French activist academic, Frederic Ozanam, wrote: ‘Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveller [...]