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There is an interesting conversation between St. Vincent and St. Louise which I read many years back in a book about St. Vincent. The topic of conversation was,” why God allows sufferings in our life?”. Vincent tells to Louise, that “God can be compared to a sculptor...
While traveling through the communities around Eleme (Nigeria) to provide medical assistance to those in need, the Daughters of Charity came across a large number of people suffering from severe mental disorders, wandering the streets and/or exposed to inhumane treatment.
"As for myself, I don’t know, but God has given me such a high esteem of simplicity that I call it my Gospel. I have special devotion and consolation in saying things as they are." (CCD, IX, conference 52). "Everyone loves simple, candid people, who don’t use...
Despite the distance of two centuries between them, there are — in the biographies of Vincent de Paul and Frederic Ozanam— some curious points of coincidence [...]. Although both were born far from Paris (Ozanam in Italy), they were inhabitants of that city most of...
On July 20, 2023, there was a celebration on the occasion of the first group completing the Másters Course in Vincentian Studies (2021-2923).
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Founded by Mother Catherine Spalding and the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Spalding University has provided access to learning through the practices of peace, justice and service since the early twentieth century
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is doing what they can to help the homeless and other residents in Arizona endure the heat wave.
The Vincentian Family could be compared with a lush and youthful tree laden with fruit and adorned with flowers.
In Christian spiritual tradition, the state of perfect acceptance of the will of God by an entire resignation is called as the virtue of holy indifference. It is not a virtue among many other virtues, but it is a state of virtuous life. There is a famous philosophical...
