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We Remind You: the Systemic Change Manual is Available
The Manual for Systemic Change, published in 2016, is available for download. Continue reading for more information. In addition, we remind you that other materials on Systemic Change are available at this link, in nine different languages. The International...
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Following the Example of Mary
This week's featured resource is a video reflection based on excerpts from the International Association of the Miraculous Medal’s Reflection Themes, Virtues proper to the AMM: Evangelization. Take some quiet time to reflect on your own, or share at a group gathering...
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The Sin of “Just Doing Our Job”
Sitting around playing with Facebook and letting injustice flourish is just as bad as committing an injustice. Vincentians just can't do that. Stephen Mattson of sojo.net (Sojourners Magazine online) writes: Just because it’s legal and permissible by...
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The fifth century of the Vincentian charism
The 23rd successor of Vincent looks to the next 100 years, the fifth century of the Vincentian Charism in his new book A New Century Dawns: Hope for the Vincentian Family.
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eBook: Louise de Marillac, a Spiritual Woman
VinFormation, the site dedicated to VIncentian charism formation resources, offers a new eBook – Louise de Marillac, A Spiritual Woman
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Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla (August 2)
Blessed Ceferino Giménez Malla was a 20th century martyr from Spain who was beatified by Pope St. John Paul II. He is included among the Saints and Blesseds of the Vincentian Family because he was an active member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Learn more...
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Real People • Real Struggles: #Homelesness is…
Homelessness is about real people, with real problems, real hopes and real struggles. And real courage. https://youtu.be/q-j36_9xPGY In the film Monsieur Vincent, St. Vincent de Paul lamented that -- because of his preoccupation with administrative matters...
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The Vincentian Witness
The Vincentian Witness Not that God needs it, but in today's culture do you ever get the urge to stand up for God? A spiritual writer recounted a conversation with a college friend after not seeing him for years. After catching up, the friend told him he had heard the...
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Limping along – rethinking “running to put out a fire”
Today, as we hear the cry of your abandoned children, may we run to their assistance” as someone who runs to put out a fire”. May we not limp along favoring one leg.
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Figure of God and of the Disfigured
Even without a figure that would draw us, Jesus is still the epiphany of God. The figure of Jesus makes appear above (epiphanein in Greek), that is, on the surface, the mystery of God. But it is hard for us who are still in the world to welcome Jesus. The ambivalence...