Aidan R. Rooney, C.M.
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Journal of Vincentian Social Action
St. John's University has announced the launch of the Journal of Vincentian Social Action, a new contribution to Vincentian Scholarship. Available online through Digital Commons, the journal provides a scholarly forum for those working to address community-defined...
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Go Forth! #AG2016CM
Homily of G. Gregory Gay, C.M., Monday, June 27, 2016, General Assembly of the Congregation of the Mission Readings: Amos 2:6-10, 13-16 Matthew 8:18-22 For these past twelve years as superior general, I have spoken with you on many different occasions. Each year I...
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Now on Social: Storage and Retrieval
You need storage for documents. People need to be able to read and download them. Here at .famvin, we use "box.com." It's a web-based application that works in any browser. It allows you easily store and manage all your content online. It also lets you share files...
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CM General Assembly News #AG2016CM
On Monday, June 27, the 42nd General Assembly began on the campus of DePaul University in Chicago, the first General Assembly outside of Europe — as well as your scribe’s first. The morning began with mass at the most beautiful church in Chicago — St. Vincent de Paul...
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A Reflection: Living with My Eyes Open #IamVincent
As I sat down to write this reflection, I got out everything I thought I would need for such a task: my old CVV journal, my trusty Little Book of St. Vincent DePaul, and a now decaying shoe box filled with prayers, quotes, stories, and notes I had saved through the...
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Telling the Tale of our Charism #famvin400 #IamVincent
To celebrate well, we must fully tell the tale of our charism. We must recount the story. ‘Has the Lord spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?’ And the Lord heard it and said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam ‘Come out, you three, to the tent of...
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What have you been up to, .famvin?
The other day someone asked, "What have you been up to?" We've been planning, working, improving, dreaming, creating, conceiving and re-conceiving. We have been working on the "famvin Project." The "famvin Project" is the implementation of the constantly evaluated and...
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UN Dedicates Decade for People of African Descent
As a Vincentian Family, we work at addressing the needs of today. After multiple centuries of slavery and colonialism, we are called to respond to the aftereffects upon the human family in our modern world. The UN regularly dedicates a year to an issue which has come...
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Ozanam: Promoting faith and justice on campus @SJUMission
When we speak of the greatest movers and changers the world has ever known, many individuals flood the mind. They come from all different nations and disciplines, but more often than not, they reach their pinnacle in the later years of life. Frédéric Ozanam is special...
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Want News? Get Twitter!
If you want news about anything happening anywhere, you can usually find it on Twitter. Whether its politics, sports, religion, entertainment, education, news, weather, whatever, if something is happening, someone is probably tweeting about it. The famvin Digital...