by Vincentian Family Office | Jan 30, 2017 | News, Vincentian Family
On Saturday, December 17, 2016, Fr. Joe Agostino, CM met with the leaders of the Vincentian Family in Slovakia. This meeting was preceded (and prepared for) by a two day Vincentian Family Collaborative Action Program (VFCAP) for 40 members of the Vincentian Family....
by Famvin Media Resources | Jan 29, 2017 | Daughters of Charity, Formation
On February 1 we commemorate the Daughters of Charity Martyrs of Angers, Blessed Odile Baumgarten and Blessed Marie-Anne Vaillot. At the ceremony in Rome on 19 February 1984 Pope John Paul II beatified ninety-nine persons who died for the faith in Angers. In his...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 29, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
In January of last year, I met with a young woman in a cafe in northern New Jersey. She is Alexis Fuentes, a former Missionary Cenacle Volunteer, and I spoke with her about her connection to the Vincentian Family and a bit of her life as she was living it. She’s...
by Elizabeth Astridge | Jan 28, 2017 | News, Sisters of Charity
Each month, the Sisters of Charity Federation will be posting images from Charity Federation archives that demonstrate how these congregations “Welcome the Stranger Among Us,” the theme of the 400th anniversary of Vincentian charism. This first month, the...
by John Freund, CM | Jan 28, 2017 | Reflections, Vincentian Family
As everyone knows the United States of America is in the midst of a major transition in leadership and a vision of leadership itself. I could not help but reflect on the major transition of leadership and the vision of leadership reflected in SVDP CEO Dave Barringer’s...