Aidan R. Rooney, C.M.
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Adamson Students “Leave a Mark”: I Come into This World to Leave Charity
Everyone leaves a mark in this world in one way or another. It is only natural for people—considering that we are feeling and thinking creatures—to affect our surroundings, let alone to influence each other. Whether we like it or not, every single one of us is bound...
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Adamson Students “Leave a Mark”: To Do Something with Soul, Creativity, or Love
M E R A K I to do something with soul, creativity, or love; when you leave a piece of yourself in your work. There are over a million words in the English language. Some have been borrowed from another language, adapting the style and the context upon usage in daily...
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Adamson Students “Leave a Mark”: In the Eyes of St. Vincent de Paul
It is still vividly written in my mind. I saw a man holding a cup in his hand one afternoon as I was traversing my path home after a long, tiring day. His eyes were sullen. His skin was marked with bruises. His clothes were tattered. He extended his empty cup at...
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By 2007, Green was unemployed, homeless and addicted to crack cocaine. #IamVincent
By 2007, Green was unemployed, homeless and addicted to crack cocaine. His wife moved back north. His children stopped talking to him. He wanted to die. In this startling narrative by Tony Abraham, we can really understand what it means to say #IamVincent. It also...
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Three Takes on Being a Mystic: #3
Yesterday we examined the second of "three takes" on the idea of Vincent as a "mystic of charity." Now it's time to look at the third. Don't have the letter at hand? Click here for lots of versions, or click the image that follows for the recently published...
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Three Takes on Being a Mystic: #2
Yesterday we examined the first of "three takes" on the idea of Vincent as a "mystic of charity." Today we'll look at the second. Don't have the letter at hand? Click here for lots of versions, or click the image that follows for the recently published multi-language...
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Welcome to the World of “Both/And”: A Word for Leaders #IamVincent
Many have said that being Catholic means to adopt a position of "both/and": grace and nature, present and future, corporal and spiritual. It shouldn't be news to Vincentians. Often, the organizational demands placed upon leaders -- and that includes Vincentian leaders...
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Three Takes on Being a Mystic: #1
In his letter to the Vincentian Family for St. Vincent's Feast, successor to St. Vincent Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, C.M., invited three Vincentians to explore three different views -- three takes -- on the idea of Vincent as a "mystic of charity." Fr. Mavrič and .famvin have...
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Get your Vincentian Telegram Starting Today!
People are signing up for their Vincentian Telegram! Don't be left out 🙁 Wouldn't you like to be part of a select group of people who receive a daily "telegram from Vincent"? Why not sign up now and receive daily Vincentian Family quotes and editor-selected .famvin...
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Monsieur Vincent: his most famous “quote”?
You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always...