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The Vincentian charism today calls for adapting ministry to new forms of poverty through creativity and collaboration. Organized charity seeks systemic change that transforms structures and promotes dignity. It is a long process requiring communal discernment and celebrating each step forward.
As Lent ends and the Fifth Centenary begins, the Vincentian Family is called to renew its shared charism through prayer, collaboration, and synodal leadership. Embracing diversity across branches, engaging youth, and fostering systemic change, it seeks to incarnate the Spirit’s guidance in creative, prophetic service to the poor worldwide.
On March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph, the Vincentian Family around the world is invited to participate in a simple yet deeply meaningful initiative: a united day of prayer for global peace.
The international Vincentian Family prepares to celebrate a very special milestone: the 10th anniversary of the Vincentian Family Office.
This month, and for the remainder of this year (2025) and most of next year (2026), the monthly reflection will focus on the Final Document of the II International Convocation that was held in Rome during the month of November 2024.
The Vincentian Family Office celebrates its 10th anniversary with the International Vincentian Youth Video Contest: “Saints Alive Today!”. Young Vincentians worldwide are invited to create 3–5 min videos showing how a Vincentian Saint or Blessed inspires today’s world. There will be prizes! Share your voice, your creativity, your mission!
In Cameroon, the Vincentian Family brings together nine active branches, three founded locally, marked by vitality and spiritual richness. Amid challenges of resources and formation, interculturality and intergenerational dialogue emerge as keys, along with the call for Africa to raise its voice in shaping a Vincentian charism with its own identity.
As usual at this time, Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, President of the Executive Board of the Vincentian Family, has sent a reflection to the entire Vincentian Family on the occasion of the feast of Saint Vincent de Paul on September 27.
The Vincentian Family Office celebrates its 10th anniversary with the International Vincentian Youth Video Contest: “Saints Alive Today!”. Young Vincentians worldwide are invited to create 3–5 min videos showing how a Vincentian Saint or Blessed inspires today’s world. There will be prizes! Share your voice, your creativity, your mission!
In this heartfelt message, Sister Rosemary describes the convocation as “a source of great hope and joy,” where the Vincentian Charism of Charity came alive through shared mission, global diversity, and renewed spiritual purpose.
Marlou Absil from the Netherlands shares with gratitude and enthusiasm her experience at the Second Convocation of the Vincentian Family, held in November 2024 in Rome.
In this season of Pentecost, let us be sure, absolutely certain, that the Spirit of God, the one who continually renews the face of the earth, is inviting us to keep our eyes and ears open wide to be able to respond to the signs of the times as did Vincent and Louise.
