by Nicole Schryburt | Mar 17, 2017 | News
Peter Ouellette, from the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, National Council of Canada, describes the North of 60 Project in the video below. He invites you to meet Michelle, Ruth Anne, Elizabeth and David from the Northwest Territories and also Helen, Keith, Lu-Ann...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 16, 2017 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Are you part of an agency or program that does good? Is it related or unrelated to the Vincentian Family? There’s a justice issue that has implications for our our future. We want to do good. We want to do what we do well and we want to do it justly. Jeremy...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 16, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
“Have you ever had a moment when you just knew the Holy Spirit was at work right in front of you? When your spine tingles and your eyes grow wide?” So writes our friend, Mike Jordan Laskey. “I experienced one of those sacred encounters in a Catholic...
by Teresa Kotturan, SCN | Mar 16, 2017 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
The new Secretary-General took office on January 2, 2017. Given below are excerpts from his speech made after taking oath of office on December 12, 2016. It is his road map for the future and he has already focused on some of these issues. “Fear is driving the...
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 15, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Gospel Stretching (Mark 6:1-6) There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, like the wideness of the Sea. So begins the famous hymn written by Frederick Faber two centuries ago. Freeing and refreshing and life-giving and promising as it sounds, wideness can...
