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Vincentian Family: Lebanon

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 13, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments

Beginnings August 21, 2013 – Convened by Father Ziad HADDAD CM, Visitor of the Congregation of the Mission in the Middle East, the leaders of the various branches of the Vincentian Family in Lebanon had their first meeting as one Vincentian Family. The meeting took...

Brazil: a special charitable work exceptionally Vincentian

by Vincentian Family Office | April 26, 2016 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments

In the city of Fortaleza, capital of Province of Ceara (northeast of Brazil), the Refuge Saint John Gabriel Perboyre, was founded in 1999, an organization that was created by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (DC). Sister Dijesu Campos Pinto is currently...

Serve: Vincentian Collaboration in Madagascar

by Vincentian Family Office | January 25, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments

In Madagascar, the Vincentian Family has been running for some 20 years now, encouraged by Congregation of the Mission from the start. All branches meet 4 times per year, and at the moment are striving to concretize at all levels, Father Gregory Gay’s words last May,...

Serve: House of Charity

by Vincentian Family Office | December 28, 2015 | Formation, Sisters of Charity, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments

The House of Charity New Orleans is a collaborative ministry of the Sisters of Charity Federation. The idea was dreamed up by members of the Company of Charity Formation Personnel or CCFP over several years. The idea of coming together to share our common Charism in...

Brazil: a special charitable work exceptionally Vincentian

by Vincentian Family Office | Apr 26, 2016 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

In the city of Fortaleza, capital of Province of Ceara (northeast of Brazil), the Refuge Saint John Gabriel Perboyre,...

Serve: Vincentian Collaboration in Madagascar

by Vincentian Family Office | Jan 25, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

In Madagascar, the Vincentian Family has been running for some 20 years now, encouraged by Congregation of the Mission...

Serve: House of Charity

by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 28, 2015 | Formation, Sisters of Charity, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The House of Charity New Orleans is a collaborative ministry of the Sisters of Charity Federation. The idea was...

Serve: South Sudan

by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 30, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

Prior to its independence in July 2011 from the old Sudan, South Sudan has known nothing but war and conflict. The devastation that engulfed this part of Africa for more than 20 years included destroyed infrastructure, the highest rate of illiteracy in the world,...

Serve: VMY Croatia: Rijeka, Kistanje and Split

by Vincentian Family Office | Sep 28, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The VMY group in Croatia began in 2011 in Rijeka, in the convent of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul - Zagreb. It was due to evangelical (Vincentian!) witness and collaboration of the VMY group from Slovenia, who came to Rijeka in November 2011 to help us...

Serve: The Family in the Philippines

by Vincentian Family Office | Aug 31, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

When the Vincentian Ministry began in the Philippines in 1862, only the Congregation of the Mission (CM) and the Daughters of Charity (DC) were part of St. Vincent de Paul’s “double family” in the country. The Ladies of Charity (LC), Society of St. Vincent de Paul...

Serve: the Vincentian Family in Slovakia – Fight against Hunger

by Vincentian Family Office | Jul 27, 2015 | Formation, Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The Vincentian Family in Slovakia is mostly bound together thanks to the nationwide collection called Fight against Hunger which is realized via selling gingerbread hearts. The yield from the selling is meant to support the poor from Haiti, Honduras, Ukraine, Albania...

Serve: Germantown Systemic Change Initiative

by Vincentian Family Office | Jun 29, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The Germantown Systemic Change Initiative (GSCI) is a project aimed at improving the lives of the vulnerable citizens of the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia by building meaningful collaboration among community-based organizations and creating a collective...