Javier F. Chento
Author
“It is So Difficult to Start from Scratch in Another Country”
"I was a stranger and you welcomed me": this is the motto that guides us Vincentians during this year in which we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the charism. The story that we are now introducing became viral only a month ago: a boy from a secondary school in the...
Pope Francis Met Tomaž Mavrič, CM, Superior General
On Monday, June 19, Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity, as well as President of the Executive Committee of the Vincentian Family, had a meeting with Pope Francis, in a private audience at the Vatican....
“Freedom Network”: A New Vincentian Movie to be Released in September
At the end of September, the film "Red de libertad" [Network of Freedom] will be released in Madrid (Spain), based on the story of the Daughter of the Charity Helene Studler. About 800 people attended to see the summary of the film that tells the story of a specific...
SSVP General Council Annual Meeting to be Broadcast Live on Ozanam TV
The International General Council (CGI in its French initials) of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SSVP) will be held June 13-16 in Paris, France with a series of activities which can be followed live by Ozanam TV (www.ozanam.tv). The following events will take...
First Meeting of Vincentian Archivists and Librarians
A meeting of librarians and archivists of the Vincentian Family will take place in Paris in November 2017. Here is the information: Dear Responsible for Congregations and Movements of the Vincentian Family, visitors, presidents, superiors, archivists and librarians:...
A Vincentian Creed
I BELIEVE in God, the Lord of history who is and who comes; I BELIEVE in Jesus Christ, the Lord of life, who gave Himself for me, for you, for all without exception and who awaits me in the tabernacle; who is delivered as food under the species of bread and wine; who...
Icon of the Charism: Divided by History, United by Charity
It has been 400 years since the days of Folleville and Châtillon. That long period has not weakened the Vincentian charism like the oak at the Berceau. It is as alive as a spring high in the mountains. The Polish artist, Mariola Zajączkowska-Bicho, on a sketch by...
The Sacrament of the Bloody Palm
Jihad terror struck the Coptic Christian community in Egypt on Sunday, April 9, Palm Sunday. Two successive bomb attacks caused dozens of deaths and more than a hundred wounded persons in two Coptic churches of Alexandria and Tanta, in the north of the country. At the...
Return to the Spirit • A Video From Fr. Tomaž Mavrič
Here is the third video of the series dedicated to Folleville, presented by Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM. You can see the first video of this third series in this link, and the second in this link. Let us recall that two series have already been published: In the first series...
Beatified Joseph Mayr-Nusser, Member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Italian layman Joseph Mayr-Nusser who refused to take the Hitler oath was beatified March 18 in his home town of Bolsano. In 1944, Mayr-Nusser, a Catholic husband and father, refused to take the oath of allegiance to Hitler after being drafted into the German army. He...