The picture says it all. Reaching out to the patients in the hills of Nepa I am back to my work and would like to share these pictures. As usual the rain has carried away the roads to our clinics and we have to walk carrying our medicines to the villagers. Keep us in your [...]
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Celebrating the Missionary Spirit on Vincent’s feast
Sr. Denise LaRock offers a gallery of photos from and a reflection on Vincent’s missionary spirit as carried out today in the Cook Islands. Complete with references to the movies “Whale Rider” and “Invictus” the post offers not only a geographical orientation to the mission in the Cook Islands thoughts on a vocation within a [...]

Vincentian Lay Missionaries
The Ethiopia Connection “I met the man of my dreams while doing the things I love. Now we get to do them together” So writes Christine Jones in her Servants Song blog from Ethiopia. The blog is a reflection on service, the charism of St. Vincent de Paul, and the people of Kitale, Kenya. The Vincentian [...]

International Statutes of the MISEVI
An English translation of the new Statutes of Vincentian Secular Missionaries have been published on the Spanish language site Somos Vicentianos. Related FAMVIN Posts:Who are they – MISEVI: Lay Vincentian MissionariesVincentian Lay MissionariesBe the “saint” in St. John’s University Be the "saint" in St. John's UniversityVincentian Lay Missionaries (MISEVI) international statutes

Congregation of the Mission and Haiti
The Superior General gave an updated report on Father Jean-Pierre Mangulu, CM from the Province of Congo who has been sent to Haiti to assist the Vincentian Family in creating projects for our Zafen website. The process of development in Haiti is slow, yet, our efforts as a Vincentian Family both internationally and locally are moving ahead. [...]

CM named Bishop in Papua New Guinea
Fr. Rolando Santos, C.M. provincial superior of the Lazarist Fathers, Philippines, has been named Bishop of Alotau-Sideia (area 20,000, population 245,000, Catholics 41,137, priests 23, religious 43), Papua New Guinea. The bishop-elect was born in Rizal, Philippines, in 1949 and ordained a priest in 1974 after studies at Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton, PA. The following is courtesy of [...]
If a flood happens to people no one knows about…
…does anyone care? That’s a question implicit in Vincentian Father Joe Fitzgerald’s YouTube about the September 3, 2008 catastrophic flood on the Ngöbe-Bugle Comarca in Panama. Watch his video about the flood and see these Web sites: Ngöbe Mission’s YouTube Channel information about how to help; includes many photos by Fr Joe Fr Joes’s Catholic [...]
A young Vincentian lay missioner writes home…
Alica Robey is a Vincentian lay Missionary from the USA living and working in Ethiopia. She is our first “long-term” missionary. Here is a letter from her. (Courtesy of Aidan Rooney) Related FAMVIN Posts:Vincentian Lay MissionariesVincentian Lay Missionaries hold annual retreat in ChicagoVincentian Collaboration in EthiopiaSystemic Change and the “Living Dead”Support Vincentian youth, lay missioners
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Plastic shopping bags – sleeping mats for the homeless
May 3, 2013
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Vincentian Service and Mission opportunities
May 18, 2013
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The Pope and the Vincentian Superior General
April 29, 2013
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Mother and Superior General
May 15, 2013
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Pentecost Sunday
May 16, 2013
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What we have seen and heard we proclaim now to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us (1 Jn 1, 3)
May 20, 2013
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Kickoff of Vincentian Family Collaborative Action Program
May 20, 2013
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Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Birth of Frederic Ozanam
May 19, 2013
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What would Vincent do?
May 19, 2013
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Summer singles ministry outreach
May 19, 2013






