Story of the origins of the U.S. Society of St. Vincent de Paul in St. Louis, Missouri in 1845.
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Story of the origins of the U.S. Society of St. Vincent de Paul in St. Louis, Missouri in 1845.
November 15th is the World Day of the Poor. Let us all reflect on how we use this day as a new beginning, with the ray of hope we have been waiting for and forget our differences and come together as one family.
After one year, BJC Healthcare estimated the cost of care for the enrolled homeless clients was reduced to $230,000, representing an estimated annual savings of nearly $400,000 or 71%. No doubt the financial people were quite pleased.
We need to look not only at housing those already on the street, but also at addressing the root reasons that people become homeless in the first place.
Several groups of the Vincentian Marian Youth of Portugal mobilized to send funds to the International Vincentian Family for Lebanon.
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Bro. René Stockman offers here a short summary of chapter 3 of the Encyclical Letter “Fratelli Tutti”, followed by a more personal reflection.
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Lucrecia is a cancer survivor and was in the army for four years. She lives homeless in a tent in Los Angeles’s Koreatown.
Eight women left their Tennessee home on November 1, 1858, traveling northwest to Kansas, where they would serve as a community according to the Rule of St. Vincent de Paul.