by Javier F. Chento | Dec 26, 2017 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
For more than 40 years, the Children’s Village “Federico Ozanam” (VIFO), a center dependent on the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Peru, offers homes to children in extreme poverty, in orphanages or abandoned, or away from their biological families...
by Ross Dizon | Dec 26, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is the hope of Israel and of all nations. Those who trust in him and welcome him rise. They fall, on the other hand, those who distrust and reject him. Joseph and Mary are devout Jews. That is why they come with the child Jesus to the temple to...
by Elizabeth Astridge | Dec 26, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
What do you think of when you read the word “Sustainability?” Maybe you think solar panels, or houses made of recycled materials. Maybe you think of maintaining schedules or choosing which organizations or tasks require your time and attention. Over the past five...
by Ross Dizon | Dec 25, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Already at birth, Jesus offers himself as the food that gives life and saves. Unless we eat his flesh and drink his blood, we have no life within us. Mary does not lay her child in a crib. Rather, she lays him, wrapped in swaddling clothes, in a manger, which holds...
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 25, 2017 | International Association of Charities - Ladies of Charity, News
On the morning of November 25, 2017, at the Immaculate Mary’s House of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Rome, the National Council of AIC Italy elected Gabriella Raschi as the new National President. She succeeds Paola Agnani, who chaired the...
