Javier F. Chento
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![SSVP in Expansion: Cyprus is the 154th Territory that is Joined into our Great Charity Network](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811Chipre-154-SSVP.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
SSVP in Expansion: Cyprus is the 154th Territory that is Joined into our Great Charity Network
The Council General International (CGI) of the SSVP has the immense joy to announce to the worldwide Vincentian community that two Conferences have just been founded in Cyprus. Now, with the entry of Cyprus, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is located in 154...
![VMY Albania-Kosovo Continues to Respond “VMY, Here I Am!”](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811140b52a229a0199a0b5b0f77e425d131_XL.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
VMY Albania-Kosovo Continues to Respond “VMY, Here I Am!”
“Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it” Lk 11,28 From the 28th to the 30th September, the national meeting of the VMY was held in a village in Shkodra called Grude e Re, at the oratory of the Vincentian priests. Many members of local VMY groups...
![Homeless Projects – Province of Our Lady of the Mission – Daughters of Charity](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811181116-Homeless-3.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Homeless Projects – Province of Our Lady of the Mission – Daughters of Charity
Sister Maria Isabel informed us that: On October 22 we received a letter from our Superioress General about ‘Famvin Alliance with homeless people.’ In our Province, we have two projects with the homeless. The first one is in Asunción, Paraguay, in the Sagrada Familia...
![Advent Letter 2018 to the Vincentian Family, by Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201711Advent-Mavric-letter-2018-fb.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Advent Letter 2018 to the Vincentian Family, by Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM
In this year's Advent letter, Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, 24th successor of St. Vincent, invites us to delve into the example of St. Vincent de Paul, addressing one of the main sources in which Vincent drank as a mystic of Charity, the daily prayer: "He urged all the groups...
![First Meeting of Vocational Promoters of the Congregation of the Mission](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/COPERTINA-FB-ENG.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
First Meeting of Vocational Promoters of the Congregation of the Mission
The Congregation of the Mission Moves Tward a Culture of Vocations As a fruit of the Jubilee Year during which we celebrated the 400th anniversary of the origin of the Vincentian charism, Father Tomaž Mavrič, CM (superior general of the Congregation of the Mission)...
![Orphanage Gives Children Hope in Ecuador](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/2018111541602008Picture1-fb.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Orphanage Gives Children Hope in Ecuador
The Daughters of Charity is a religious community of sisters that runs schools, orphanages, and medical centers throughout the world. Its St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage in Quito, Ecuador, is near and dear to our hearts, and is one of the projects which Cross Catholic...
![November 18: Second World Day of the Poor](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811logo-pobres-fv.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
November 18: Second World Day of the Poor
“This poor man called, and the Lord heard him” (Psalms 34,7) What a great idea of Pope Francis to set one Sunday a year for us to reflect on the situation of the Poor! In his message for this day, the Holy Father seems to make a reflection for the Vincentian Family....
![Youth in the SSVP: a Future that is Already Present](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811DSC_0230-fb.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Youth in the SSVP: a Future that is Already Present
Among the main clichés, popular sayings or phrases of common sense heard or read in Brazil are: "The friend is for those things," "The union is strength," "It is better to prevent than cure" and the classic "Brazil is the country of soccer." What stands out, in the...
![Discovered Portrait of One of the Founders of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811clave-fb.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Discovered Portrait of One of the Founders of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
With immense joy, the SSVP Council General International reports that we have just obtained a portrait of the founders Félix Clavé. The illustration is inside a book from 1851, written by the chronicler Maurice-Oscar Honoré de Bourzeis, from France....
![SSVP in Brazil Condemns $12 Billion Cut for Social Assistance](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811ayuda.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
SSVP in Brazil Condemns $12 Billion Cut for Social Assistance
The organizations that provide service in the area of Social Assistance will have to operate in 2019 with $12 billion less, if the Budget Proposal for the sector is approved. The measure involves the interruption of 17 thousand social assistance services, according...