The Heroes In Our Lives – The Saints Next Door
“All the Saints” can never be limited to those who have fully graduated. As the entire New Testament does, we must apply the word “saints” to all of us who are in kindergarten, primary school, middle school, high school, college, and doing graduate studies..
VLM/VMC Impact: To Serve Others and to Work to Improve Issues of Social Injustice
We continue to share a series of reflections made by Vincentian Lay Missionaries and Vincentian Mission Corps participants about their experience serving, how it has impacted their lives and how they continue to live the Vincentian Charism today. Ever since...
Interview with Fr. Vinicius Augusto Teixeira CM, on the Canonization of Frederic Ozanam
The September/October issue of the Boletim Brasileiro magazine of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SSVP) in Brazil has published interviews with two members of the Commission for the Canonization of blessed Frederic Ozanam, the main founder of the Society of St....
A Vincentian View: “Belonging to God”
A Vincentian View: “Belonging to God” All of us know what a seal is. In our day, it may take the form of a logo or insignia or symbol which is on a shirt or a scarf or a car or almost anything else. When we see that emblem, we know who made that...
Some Things We Can All Agree On!
We pray in thanksgiving for the privilege and responsibility of being able to organize as individuals politically. We pray that each of us, as citizens, feel compelled to exercise our right and responsibility to vote…
First and Greatest of All the Commandments
Jesus teaches that the first and the greatest of all the commandments is to love God and the neighbor. The Teacher practices, moreover, what he teaches. According to Jewish teaching, there are 613 commandments. Of these, 365 are prohibitions and 248 are positive...
There is a Dream in You
"Saint Vincent received the vocation to go forth as a gift." This sentence from Fr. Luigi Mezzadri’s article has echoed in my mind from the moment I read it. The vocation to go forth is a sign left by Saint Vincent de Paul, both in the sense of always advancing from...
GLOBE: Discovering the Vincentian Mission Abroad
See a video about St. John’s University students in partnership with Daughters of Charity changing the world through the GLOBE microloan program.
“Does Europe Still Have Christian Values in its Treatment of Migrants?” Asks an Ethiopian Cardinal at the Synod
For the second year in a row I have been given the mission to accompany a small pastoral team for migrants in the Diocese of Landes. We’ve increased our numbers by inviting a Daughter of Charity from the Berceau community who provides French lessons and a layman from...
Missionary Call of Father Tomaž Mavrič, C.M.
As every October, the Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission (CM) has written a letter to all the members of the CM requesting their generosity, both personal and material, to continue the work of evangelization in different parts of the globe. The...
