Aidan R. Rooney, C.M.
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How do Daughters of Charity help elderly in Rome?
https://youtu.be/jo_t_QS6ejY These are the happy faces of the elderly who come to this Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul center in Rome every Tuesday. They feel at home here, because they have found a place to share with others. They say the center is their...
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January: a USA season of protests #IamVincent
January brings a new year, and renewed attention to continuing social issues in the United States: Abortion, Women's rights, racism. DACA is still under siege. Why should Vincentians be present? A reflection by Colorado Vincentian Volunteer alumna and Vincentian Lay...
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Sisters of Charity Federation | Online Lenten Reflections | February 18-21, 2018
The Federation of the Sisters of Charity will be going live on Facebook each day February 18-21, 2018 at 9PM EST for their Federation Online Lenten Reflections. The Sisters giving the talks will reflect on themes of the Lenten season: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving....
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Get Ready for Gen Z
The first members of Generation Z will be graduating from college in a few years, and market researchers and trend forecasters are clamoring to tap into their psyches. Will this latest crop of youngsters reshape how we do business tomorrow? Will it reshape how we...
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Not Reaching your Instagram Audience? Try #hashtags!
Tailwind blog has some new insights on using hashtags on Instagram. We can always use a new angle to increase viewers. The key pieces: The key is to think about what kind of content people want to see for any given hashtag. Create hashtag lists for each of the...
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God With Us
An Advent reflection, I can do that. It will be beautiful; all starlight and inspiration. I clear my plans for the evening, no record keeping, grading or lesson planning, no dishes or laundry. Inspiration needs quiet and time and putting the ‘to do’ list to the side....
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A Fun and Informative Way to Take Notes
Molly Burhans, principal of the GoodLand project, took some startling notes at the recent symposium on Street Homeless and Catholic Social teaching. Click the image (© Molly Burhans) to see all her interesting notes over at the Institute of Global Homelessness.
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A Giving Tuesday Morning #IamVincent
It was Giving Tuesday. While most college students were sound asleep Tuesday morning, Justin Crawford woke up early to volunteer at Community Missions of Niagara Frontier. By 6:15 a.m., the Niagara University junior and several of his peers were clad in hairnets and...
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Three Days at #CSTHomeless* on Twitter
*Symposium on Street Homelessness and Catholic Social Teaching, convened by The Institute for Global Homelessness, Center for Catholic Studies of Durham University (England), DePaul University (USA), Niagara University (USA) and St. John's University (USA) in Rome,...
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Advent: A Time of the Word. A Time of Beauty
Poetry that evokes the profound, the beautiful is a way to deepen your Advent journey. Advent prepares us for the Word become flesh. Brother Augustine Denis Towey, C.M. (+November 22, 2012) penned this, as well as many other poems. It's good to pass on a gift. You Are...