by Javier F. Chento | Oct 14, 2016 | Brothers CMM, News
From October 9-21, 2016, the General Board of Brothers CMM organizes an international meeting with the motto: Accountable Brothers – Good Stewardship in CMM. The meeting is taking place in the CMM Retreat Centre ZIN in Vught (the Netherlands). Goal The participants...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 13, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
How many of us fully understand what a Vincentian is or does? Being a student at Niagara University, I was assumed to have known what the mission of my school is for its student body. After attending NU for three years now, I’ve come to notice that not many...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 13, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
A Vincentian has a deeply rooted social conscience that informs her actions. Vincent had that, too. Vincentian Father Greg Cooney writes: …the call of conscience becomes a call to personal conversion, requiring a re-orientation of convictions and patterns of...
by Catherine Prendergast | Oct 13, 2016 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Currently,...
by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Oct 12, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
“I ask Our Lord to grant us the grace of considering those matters as they are in God and not as they appear apart from Him; otherwise we might deceive ourselves and act other than He wishes.” (CCD VII, to Phillippe Le Vacher, December 6, 1658). “O...