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Fr. Jack Kane, CM, the pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Opelika, AL is allowing the parish to record Sunday homilies and post the recordings as podcasts on the parish website. Parish websites are common – especially in the United States. However, these internet sites can do more than just inform interested parties about mass [...]

Using different approaches, the Western and Southern United States Provinces of the Congregation of the Mission “bring God’s love to everyday life.” A recent article in the Provinces’ newsletter, The Vincentian, describes how both regional and parish-focused programs carry forward the mission. Read the story. Related FAMVIN Posts:No Related FAMVIN Posts

I’d like to try to start an interchange among the readers of FAMVIN of liturgical and non-liturgical ideas that have worked in the past or are going to be tried this year for Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week and Easter. As I wish everyone a Happy New Year, I’m thinking that Lent is just around [...]

The following article was written by Fr Greg Walsh CM for the September 2002 issue of ‘Oceania Vincentian’ . (‘Oceania Vincentian’ is a Publication in the Australian Province of the Vincentians): SIN, SWEAT AND SORROW – A TALE OF THREE PARISHES This is a reflection article about my work in the Rockhampton region in relation [...]

We Have a Dream A parish learns six lessons as it struggles toward racial healing by Richard Taylor with the assistance of La Vonne France Colette Oldham, a 16 year old member of St. Vincent de Paul Church in Philadelphia, attends a private high school that is predominantly white. As a white teen from the [...]

St. John the Baptist: Pastoral Plan and Beyond by Fr. Joe Agostino, C.M. (printed here with the permission of the author) St. John the Baptist Parish is located in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. It is the poorest parish in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located in an area defined by the 1990 [...]

How parishes create common ground for the common good Bob Zyskowski The wealthy community of Boca Raton, Florida is as good place as any to witness the growing gap between the rich and poor in the United States. “It’s hard to find the poor in Boca if you’re not looking for them,” Al Ragona says. [...]

VATICAN CITY, MAY 27, 2001 (Zenit.org).- On the 297th parish visit of his pontificate, John Paul II urged the faithful to alleviate poverty close to home. At St. Angela Merici Parish, a community of 5,200 people, most of them elderly and retired, the Pope appealed to the parishioners to attend to “situations of poverty existing [...]

A Vincentian Parish  -  Called to respond in practical love and action A Vincentian Parish is never separated from the streets of the city… St. Vincent encouraged his followers to be contemplatives in action, to respond to God in practical love both of God and of one’s neighbour, practical love especially of the poor. Here [...]

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