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“Finding Vince 400” Will Be Streamed on Facebook
Thursday, October 18, starts "Finding Vince 400" (FV400), the International Film Festival and the Competition dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul to illustrate the globalization of charity. The event will take place at Centro Mariapoli in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) until ...
My Mission in Life Through the Eyes of Pope Francis
Pope Francis suggests 9 dimensions of looking at our mission in life.
Study finds a program that worX!
Have you ever bothered to study the long term results of your youth and young adult program?
“Finding Vince 400” Film Festival Starts Today
Today, Thursday, October 18, begins "Finding Vince 400," the International Film Festival and contest dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul, to illustrate the globalization of charity, in the Mariapolis Center of Castel Gandolfo (Italy). The first images of the meeting...
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Social Justice Conversations: Pope Francis, Laudato Si, SVDP, the Poor
Pope Francis is following in the line of many of his predecessors in Laudato Si, On Care for Our Common Home, in promoting Catholic Social teaching. What is significant about Pope Francis’ approach is that he addresses Catholic Social teaching through the prism of...
Film Festival Presents Dream of Ending Poverty
Castel Gandolfo, close to where the popes usually spend summer vacation, is going to host a film festival to raise awareness about poverty in the world. It's called “Finding Vince 400.” It recalls the 400th anniversary of when St. Vincent de Paul began to help the...
Greetings from The Vincentian Family at The U.N.
On the afternoon of October 4, 1965, I remember standing in the South Bronx, at the northeast corner of the Grand Concourse at 138th Street. I was anxiously waiting for a chance to see the motorcade of Pope Paul VI, as he was traveling to Yankee Stadium to say Mass...
A Vincentian View: A Visit to a Sikh Community
A Vincentian View: “A Visit to a Sikh Community” On this past Friday, we held an Interfaith Day at St. John’s University. This full day began at 10:00 in the morning and lasted till 10:00 in the evening as we strove to come to an appreciation of some of the different...
Knowing Nods and Beating Dead Horses
Sometimes laughter can help us gain perspective on our efforts!
Getting Stuff Right on Your Website
Here’s the start of a list that might help you go from getting stuff wrong to getting stufff right on your website that will strengthen your communication.
Enthusiasm to Serve to the Bitter End
Jesus is the model of determined and enthusiastic service. His true followers also serve to the end with determination and enthusiasm. One can rebuke Zebedee’s sons for not understanding and for being ambitious. But we cannot accuse them of unwillingness, indecision...
La Moskitia (Honduras): Catholic Radio “Kupia Kumi” takes care of the Common House
For 15 years, the San José de Puerto Lempira parish (Mission in Honduras) has been broadcasting, through the airwaves of the Catholic Radio "Kupia Kumi," to all the communities of the Department of Gracias a Dios, better known as La Moskitia (16,997 km2 of extension...
The Spiritual and the Temporal • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The Truth does not fear persecutions of power and does not need its favors. You confirm this separation of the spiritual and the temporal which, in my opinion, is the only one capable of ensuring the triumph of the Church. [...] Some rely on chariots, others on...
“Finding Vince 400” Will Be Streamed on Facebook
Thursday, October 18, starts "Finding Vince 400" (FV400), the International Film Festival and the Competition dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul to illustrate the globalization of charity. The event will take place at Centro Mariapoli in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) until ...
XIV National Meeting of the Vincentian Family in Portugal
On October 5, 2018, the day on which the Portuguese celebrate the establishment of the Republic, the XIV National Encounter of the Vincentian Family took place in the Sanctuary of Fatima. It was a day of communion among all the vincentians of Portugal, who came to...
Artwork of Louis Janmot, friend of Frederic Ozanam
See and appreciate the artwork of Louis Janmot, friend of Frederic Ozanam.
“Finding Vince 400” Will Be Streamed on Facebook
Thursday, October 18, starts "Finding Vince 400" (FV400), the International Film Festival and the Competition dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul to illustrate the globalization of charity. The event will take place at Centro Mariapoli in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) until ...
My Mission in Life Through the Eyes of Pope Francis
Pope Francis suggests 9 dimensions of looking at our mission in life.
Study finds a program that worX!
Have you ever bothered to study the long term results of your youth and young adult program?
“Finding Vince 400” Film Festival Starts Today
Today, Thursday, October 18, begins "Finding Vince 400," the International Film Festival and contest dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul, to illustrate the globalization of charity, in the Mariapolis Center of Castel Gandolfo (Italy). The first images of the meeting...
Social Justice Conversations: Pope Francis, Laudato Si, SVDP, the Poor
Pope Francis is following in the line of many of his predecessors in Laudato Si, On Care for Our Common Home, in promoting Catholic Social teaching. What is significant about Pope Francis’ approach is that he addresses Catholic Social teaching through the prism of...
Film Festival Presents Dream of Ending Poverty
Castel Gandolfo, close to where the popes usually spend summer vacation, is going to host a film festival to raise awareness about poverty in the world. It's called “Finding Vince 400.” It recalls the 400th anniversary of when St. Vincent de Paul began to help the...
Greetings from The Vincentian Family at The U.N.
On the afternoon of October 4, 1965, I remember standing in the South Bronx, at the northeast corner of the Grand Concourse at 138th Street. I was anxiously waiting for a chance to see the motorcade of Pope Paul VI, as he was traveling to Yankee Stadium to say Mass...
A Vincentian View: A Visit to a Sikh Community
A Vincentian View: “A Visit to a Sikh Community” On this past Friday, we held an Interfaith Day at St. John’s University. This full day began at 10:00 in the morning and lasted till 10:00 in the evening as we strove to come to an appreciation of some of the different...
Knowing Nods and Beating Dead Horses
Sometimes laughter can help us gain perspective on our efforts!
Getting Stuff Right on Your Website
Here’s the start of a list that might help you go from getting stuff wrong to getting stufff right on your website that will strengthen your communication.
Enthusiasm to Serve to the Bitter End
Jesus is the model of determined and enthusiastic service. His true followers also serve to the end with determination and enthusiasm. One can rebuke Zebedee’s sons for not understanding and for being ambitious. But we cannot accuse them of unwillingness, indecision...
La Moskitia (Honduras): Catholic Radio “Kupia Kumi” takes care of the Common House
For 15 years, the San José de Puerto Lempira parish (Mission in Honduras) has been broadcasting, through the airwaves of the Catholic Radio "Kupia Kumi," to all the communities of the Department of Gracias a Dios, better known as La Moskitia (16,997 km2 of extension...
The Spiritual and the Temporal • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The Truth does not fear persecutions of power and does not need its favors. You confirm this separation of the spiritual and the temporal which, in my opinion, is the only one capable of ensuring the triumph of the Church. [...] Some rely on chariots, others on...
“Finding Vince 400” Will Be Streamed on Facebook
Thursday, October 18, starts "Finding Vince 400" (FV400), the International Film Festival and the Competition dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul to illustrate the globalization of charity. The event will take place at Centro Mariapoli in Castel Gandolfo (Rome) until ...
XIV National Meeting of the Vincentian Family in Portugal
On October 5, 2018, the day on which the Portuguese celebrate the establishment of the Republic, the XIV National Encounter of the Vincentian Family took place in the Sanctuary of Fatima. It was a day of communion among all the vincentians of Portugal, who came to...
Artwork of Louis Janmot, friend of Frederic Ozanam
See and appreciate the artwork of Louis Janmot, friend of Frederic Ozanam.
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