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Day 13, July 9: Sweet Home Chicago After prayer, the assembly began as usual with the prayer for the assembly and the approval of the minutes. The Synthesis and Redaction Committee then presented the first draft of the final document. While waiting for copies of the...
Day 12, July 8: After approving the minutes, the assembly watched a short video from the seminarians of Colombia. They then began the election of the assistants general. The first assistant elected was Aaron Gutierrez. He is 65 years old, the visitor of Mexico, a...
Could not this uncompromising wording "dependence on the Archbishop" be harmful to us in the future by the liberty it gives to draw us away from the direction of the Superior General of the Mission" [Letter 898, Archives of the Daughters of Charity, original autograph...
Acceptance speech of Atty. Ceferino A. Patino Jr. as President of SSVP Philippines Before anything else, allow me to introduce myself to you. My full name is Ceferino A. Patino Jr. 70 years old married to one beautiful wife for 40 years (Tita Dek, please stand and be...
"Elie Wiesel was brought up in a closely knit Jewish community in Sighet, Transylvania (Romania). When he was fifteen years old, his family was herded aboard a train and deported by Nazis to the Auschwitz death camp. Wiesel’s mother and younger sister died at...
Scott Kelley engages St. Vincent de Paul in a "colloquy" on Sustainabilty. Sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology,...
Day 10, July 6: Solidarity The day began with mass celebrated by Fr. Tomaz with the main concelebrants being Michael Talapkanych, the other delegate from the vice-province of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, and Paul Roche of Ireland, the former vice-provincial. In his first...
The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development will be meeting at the United Nations in New York from July 11- 20, 2016. It is the central platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development...
A former case manager shares about reality of mental illness and finding oneself homeless. At the height of her career, Cheryl was a case manager working for a mental health agency in Juneau, Alaska. She had two degrees from Northern Arizona University under her belt...
Yes. Maps. The Vincentian Family Office is working with sophisticated mapping software to help the Vincentian Family be more effective. Click on the image to take a look at this spectacular "story-map" to get an idea of what will be available next year. It's a long...
