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Lenten Video Series, Day 11: Reaching Out
Anne DeSantis, Director of the Raymond Nonnatus Foundation, offers her inspirational thoughts and guidance, not just on Lenten Sacrifice, but how we can learn and grow through sacrifice every day.
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Images of Hope: A Prolonged Farewell
Only those who are parents can understand the pain of a husband/father having to say goodbye to a wife and/or a child who board a train as refugees in order to travel to a safer place
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Lenten Video Series, Day 10: A Mother’s Love
David Slusarick drew tremendous inspiration from the sacrifices made by his mom during times of hardship.
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Sisters offer hospice care to patients in Kenya
The hospice, on a slight hill between a church and the Holy Cross Medical Clinic, has over the years provided palliative care to 568 terminally ill patients.
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U.S. SSVP Gathers in St. Louis for Annual Midyear Meeting
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, will host its annual Midyear Business Meeting, March 16 – 19. The event has been held virtually for the last two years, and this year’s gathering marks the first in-person Midyear Meeting since 2019.
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Lenten Video Series, Day 9: The Way
Like those called to Christ in the Gospel, there comes a time in everyone’s life when God reaches out his hand and asks us to follow him. For Joe Donahue, it meant leaving a comfortable position climbing the corporate ladder.
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Images of Hope: Carriages Left at a Train Station in Poland
Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, some two million Ukrainians have fled the country, many of them children.
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Lenten Video Series, Day 8: No Greater Love
Deacon Ryan Nguyen recounts how, on the night before his crucifixion, Christ prayed for joy.
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When Did We See You…
The article and photo are by Sister Susan Smolinsky, a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Halifax. She serves as a county jail chaplain in New York.
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A Daughter of Charity Speaks About the Ukrainian Conflict
We share a video from Sister Petra, DC, who is ministering on the Ukrainian border with Slovakia.