It is interesting to look at how our Vincentian practices can serve to turn around the negative impact of a hyper-consumer culture.
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It is interesting to look at how our Vincentian practices can serve to turn around the negative impact of a hyper-consumer culture.
A brief 10-slide portrayal of the situation of the Congregation of the Mission during a time of severe crisis: the French Revolution.
August 30 was the feast day of Blessed Ghebre-Michael. Learn the story of this fascinating Ethiopian priest in a visual slide presentation.
Celebrate the birthday of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton with these media resources.
Thanks to some much appreciated help from a .famvin volunteer, Deirdre Noonan, you can now search the quotes within the images that are posted daily to VinFormation’s Facebook page.
It was in Châtillon-les-Dombes, a small French village, that St. Vincent created on August 23, 1617 the first of the “Confraternities,” later called “Charities.” This was the nucleus from which stemmed the AIC (known in the United States as Ladies of Charity). Watch...
The Confraternity of Charity was the first institutional expression of the Vincentian charism– lay leadership for social action. This came about when St. Vincent proposed that the women of the parish in Chatillon-les-Dombes join together for organized charity.
On the eve of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we offer the following thoughts on Mary from a Vincentian perspective. Fr. Thomas McKenna, CM, once spoke of St. Vincent’s key insights about the Blessed Mother: [One of the...
Today is the birthday of St. Louise de Marillac. We offer this little SlideShare presentation to pray with some time this weekend. It’s from a Vincentian Heritage Journal article by Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M.
SlideShare presentation: Fr. Antonius Sad Budianto, C.M. of Indonesia talks about collaboration in the Vincentian Family. He presents some models of collaboration, describes his own experiences with collaboration, points out some of the challenges and offers some findings.