Do you want to learn new songs with a Vincentian Flavor? This is your place!
Welcome to a growing collection of music-based resources designed to inspire, engage, and empower children, teens, young people, and adults through the Vincentian spirit. Each post features a single song, paired with a practical guide to help you lead meaningful sessions with teens and young adults. You’ll find activities, questions for reflection, and simple ways to connect the message of each song with the lived experience of service, compassion, and faith.
You can expect songs from a wide variety of musical styles—gospel, pop, rock, folk, indie, liturgical music, world music, and more—crafted for people of all ages. Our goal is to reflect the richness and diversity of the Vincentian Family itself, offering resources that resonate with different tastes, cultures, and generations.
We’ll be adding new songs regularly on famvin—so stay tuned, check back often, and let these melodies spark deeper conversations and transformative encounters!
And… if you want us to write a Vincentian song about a specific topic… leave a comment!
We Choose Peace
© 2025, Javier F. Chento
In a world overwhelmed by division, conflict, and rising violence, the Vincentian Family is called to choose a different way—a way shaped by peace, compassion, and the unwavering dignity of every person. This song invites us to begin that transformation within ourselves. Its lyrics remind us that true peace is not passive; it’s an active, healing force that flows from the heart outward, restoring hope, rebuilding trust, and bringing people together.
As Vincentians, we believe that peace is built through concrete acts of love, justice, and mercy—especially toward those who suffer the most. The song’s call to “break walls,” “mend the broken,” and “make strangers into friends” echoes the very path St. Vincent de Paul walked, and the one we are invited to walk today.
In times when our society feels fractured and weary, this song becomes both a prayer and a commitment: we choose peace, and we choose God’s way. May its message guide us as we work for a world shaped not by fear or violence, but by reconciliation, courage, and tender compassion.
Would you prefer a more acoustic version? Here you go:
Lyrics:
May healing start within our hearts, where every fear can cease;
and let it flow through all the world, a tide of gentle peace.
Restore the hope of the weary souls, let justice never end;
and teach our hearts to walk Your path, where broken people mend.
Let Your peace flow through us now,
breaking walls and showing how
every voice can rise and say:
we choose peace, we choose Your way,
we choose peace, we choose Your way.
End wars that break the innocent, let mercy rise again;
unite the nations in Your love, make strangers into friends.
Let kindness shape our every step, let grace be our defense;
and guide the world to live as one, in lasting peace we tend.
Let Your peace flow through us now,
breaking walls and showing how
every voice can rise and say:
we choose peace, we choose Your way.
Let Your peace flow through us now,
breaking walls and showing how
every voice can rise and say:
we choose peace, we choose Your way,
we choose peace, we choose Your way,
we choose peace, we choose Your way.
Resources for the song “We Choose Peace”:
The following PDF offers a set of flexible suggestions for using this song during a Teen/Youth Meeting. These ideas are meant to support and inspire your planning, not to limit it—feel free to expand, shorten, or adapt them according to the needs, rhythm, and reality of your own group. Use what serves your teens best, and reshape the rest in whatever way helps create a meaningful and engaging experience.
Teen/Youth Meeting using the song “We Choose Peace”
Guitar chords of the song “We Choose Peace”
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Here is the instrumental track without vocals, so you can sing along to it:
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