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Griffin – Considering Consecrated Life “Lenten Observance
Two liturgical events during the Christian year stir me. Both transpire during the time of Lent and lead to my observations.
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Formation in the Year of Collaboration
Many of you are using and contributing to our fantastic resource called VinFormation. If you click on the word "Formation" on the black navigation bar above, you'll go right to it! Its motto is, "Learning to serve," and that's just what we hope we are doing and the...
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Frederick Ozanam – “The Book of the Sick”
The original work is an assemblage of passages from scriptures that he read with his wife, Amelie. It was at her suggestion that he collected them into a manuscript.
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Snowflakes, and Vows, that wake up the world
Although community is largely what draws me to this vocation, I did not previously understand how deeply woven it is into poverty, celibacy and obedience.
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Wise Asset Management in Kenya
Exploring strategies for systemic change, wise asset management and grant writing is the focus of a gathering the Vincentian missionaries in Nairobi, Kenya these days. Sharing wisdom and seeking wisdom to move from subsidy to self-sufficency is the theme of the event....
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FamVinES on Social Networks
Our Spanish speaking users of the FamVin network can now keep up on the go with the latest news of and from the Vincentian Family on our social media sites Facebook "famvin" and Twitter "famvinES", or anyone can click the "social" link on the black navigation bar...
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Lenten Online Discernment Retreat
Perhaps you or someone you know would be interested
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60 Seconds with Sister Julie Kubasak, DC
How Julie Kubasak went from friend to Sister
Would a Missionary give up Swahili (Facebook) for Lent?
What’s the first thing a missionary does? Learn the language. This is the language of the world we live. I’m sorry if you don’t like it. You could go “okay, I don’t like Swahili.”
Stir into flame… Tom McKenna CM
The “Stir Into Flame” is from 2 Timothy 1: 1-8 — plays on Paul’s line here, and also Vincent’s “If love is a fire, then zeal is its flame.”