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Twice a year, AIC publishes the Training Booklets and the Spiritual Reflexions about specific topics, as well as a Newsletter called AIC-INFO. Although these documents are written for the AIC “Volunteers” (as LCUSA members are called internationally) They are a valuabe resources not only into the aims and principles of the modern day Ladies of [...]

The Ladies of Charity of Central Alabama are the latest group to come online. For a list of other Ladies of Charity associations who have come online visit their national site.     Related FAMVIN Posts:Training resources for the Ladies of Charity/AICLadies of Charity USA redesign websiteLadies of Charity USA assemble in San Antonio, TexasBooks [...]

Father Ed Udovic’s  current post about books St. VIncent would know  features background on his rule for the first Ladies of Charity. St. Vincent’s reading list is a recurring blog exploring texts known to have been ready and recommended by Saint Vincent de Paul, those which can be presumed to have been read by him, and works [...]

In part four of  “Louise de Marillac, Formator of the Laity”  by Sister Maria Angeles Infante Barrera, DC the focus is on her on offering a Gosspel spirituality Louise de Marillac was a spiritual woman who lived a profound interior life that enabled her to experience God in the midst of her surroundings, a habit that [...]

The feast of the Immaculate Conception has special significance in the Vincentian Family. It marks the formal establishment of the First Confraternity of Charity in 1617; one of the four major feasts chosen by the Society of St. Vincent De Paul in 1834 (Blessed Frederic Ozanam had a great devotion to Mary and declared Our Lady of [...]

The twelve days beginning November 27 through December 8 are significant days for the Vincentian Family… November 27 – Feast of the Miraculous Medal Official site 28 – Feast of St. Catherine Labouré 29 – Foundation of the Company of the Daughters of Charity, 1633 December 8 marks not only the Feast of the Immaculate Conception but also the [...]

“Saint Louise has been presented to us as a committed woman, a woman of the Church, a spiritual woman, a theologian, etc. We cannot forget, however, that all during her life as a Daughter of Charity she was a formator. She was most passionate about this task and also had outstanding natural abilities in this [...]

Thus writes the the Ladies of Charity USA website. “LCUSA has been twinning with AIC MADAGASCAR for several years now. Fifteen different associations throughout this impoverished island nation look to the Ladies of Charity USA to give them a much-needed helping hand. One of the five projects with which we can help AIC MADAGASCAR is [...]

The Junior Ladies of Charity from St. Vincent/Guardian Angel, St. Louis, just returned from a trip to New Orleans where they helped two families refurbish their homes. The girls scraped and painted two houses and added the finishing touches that made the houses home again. Full story. Junior Ladies of Charity: Our Future Junior Ladies [...]

“Sometimes spirituality can be complex,” said Daughter of Charity Sister Martha Garcia at the Saint Olaf Chapter of the Ladies of Charity Lenten retreat held at the Daughters of Charity Convent in Bountiful March 14. So Sr. Martha taught the Ladies of Charity and the Daughters of Charity less formal and more practical ways of [...]