Programs: Vincentians in Action
Creative programs for formation abound in the Vincentian Family, but too often we operate in “silos,” walled off from one another.
VLM/VMC Impact: Vincentian Formation – What Must Be Done?
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. Six years have...
Acting For Equality — in Faith
Acting For Equality -- in Faith (2 Corinthians 8:13; Mk 5: 25-34) If you’re looking for a topical subject in the Scriptures, you wouldn’t have to go much further than the one Paul brings up in a request to the Corinthians. He’s asking them to help their poorer...
The Poor Have Much to Teach Us #2
Video can be a good way for the poor to teach us.
Wanted Very Urgently Indeed: Prophets
Jesus is the definitive answer to the prayers of those who bemoan that there are no prophets. That is how wanted prophets are. That prophets are that wanted is clear in the lament, “Now we see no signs, we have no prophets.” We read something like it in Lam 2, 9. ...
Pier Giorgio Frassati and Social Justice
Listen as Bishop Robert Barron talks about social justice, the Church, and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (who was a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul).
Châtillon: God Works With Our Choices
Here in Châtillon, the Confraternities of Charity began as the creative collaboration of the women of the parish and their parish priest.
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Successes and Failures in Collaborative Efforts [Video]
My name is Joe Agostino. I am a priest of the Congregation of the Mission and am serving as the Coordinator of the Vincentian Family Collaboration Commission. Like most realities in life, collaboration never happens in a straight line. As is true of any...
Pope’s Video Won an International Prize for Best Strategy
On Friday, June 15, a video with the collaboration of Pope Francis won an international prize for “best strategy in social action” at the International Festival of Social Publicity in Spain. Jesús Colina, from Aletia writes: The video was put together by the Migrants...
June 30: First Miraculous Medals
The first 2,000 medals were delivered on June 30, 1832. This coincided with a cholera outbreak in Paris which claimed 20,000 lives. The Daughters of Charity began distributing the first medals and many cures were reported, leading to the people of Paris starting to...