by Famvin Media Resources | Oct 28, 2016 | Formation
Fr. Bruce Krause, C.M. prepared these PowerPoint slides as a tour of special places in the life of St. Vincent de Paul. We thought it would be a great resource to share for the 400th Anniversary.
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 28, 2016 | Daughters of Charity, News
The Sisters in Madagascar shared Jeanne’s Story – a story about a girl among the children who are mentally disabled and are accommodated at the St. Vincent DePaul Special Education Center in Manakara, Madagascar. Jeanne is a girl removed from her family....
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 27, 2016 | News, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
Young men and women have been walking in the footsteps of Saint Justin de Jacobis, together with native Vincentian priests, brothers and Daughters of Charity in Ethiopia. They are the Vincentian Lay Missionaries of the United States and Ireland. In Bahir Dar, VLM work...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media
Alienation makes for a different type of stranger. There are unseen wounds. Reflection and challenge: There are people all around us that hide their suffering: from poverty, from personal loss. Can you draw close to this kind of suffering, or is it too scary? Did you...
by Natalie Boone | Oct 27, 2016 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
A New Leader for the UN: Selection of a new Secretary General on October 13 and UN Day: October 24 We, the Vincentian Family at the UN and our respective NGOs, are a small part of the bigger picture of the continuing work of the United Nations. Currently there are...