We are pleased to announce that this year’s Circular Letter, written by the International President General, has been published.
Vincentian Family Office
Celebrating 150 years of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Mary
by Vincentian Family Office | May 15, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
May 3, 1871 marks the official founding of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Mary.
The Executive Committee of the Vincentian Family Meets Virtually
by Vincentian Family Office | May 10, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
On April 22nd, the Executive Committee of the Vincentian Family (VFEC) held its second meeting this year.
Interview with Father Bernard Massarini, Coordinator of the Vincentian Family in France
by Vincentian Family Office | May 10, 2021 | News, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments
Father Bernard Massarini, Coordinator of the Vincentian Family in France, tells of how the Vincentian Family came together in France.
“Be Merciful, As Your Father is Merciful,” the New Book of Brother René Stockman
by Vincentian Family Office | May 8, 2021 | Formation, News | 0 Comments
Brother René Stockman, Superior General of the Brothers of Charity, has published a new book titled Be Merciful, As Your Father is Merciful.
Germán Sánchez: “Those who count for no one are the ones who teach us how to live.”
by Vincentian Family Office | Jan 31, 2022 | News, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
Germán, Delmy and their two children are a family that has been carrying out their missionary project in Bolivia since 2003. This is their story of mission and help to those “who are left over.”
Presence of the Congregation of the Mission in Sangrelaya (Honduras)
by Vincentian Family Office | Jan 29, 2022 | News
Fr. Joseph Curla, a missionary of the Congregation of the Mission of Slovakian origin, presents in this short video the reality of the area where they are serving the people of God on the northeastern coast of Honduras.
International Vincentian Family Leaders to Meet in Rome
by Vincentian Family Office | Jan 3, 2016 | Announcements, News, Vincentian Family
Philadelphia, PA - The newly established Vincentian Family Office in Philadelphia, Pa., USA, announces that international Vincentian Family leaders will meet in Rome during January 2016: The annual meeting of the Vincentian Family Executive Committee (VFEC), composed...
Serve: House of Charity
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 28, 2015 | Formation, Sisters of Charity, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
The House of Charity New Orleans is a collaborative ministry of the Sisters of Charity Federation. The idea was dreamed up by members of the Company of Charity Formation Personnel or CCFP over several years. The idea of coming together to share our common Charism in...
Connect and Learn: Vincentian Conference of Presidents
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 28, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
On March 30, 2011, the three Provincial Councils of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States held a joint meeting in which the Superior General was encouraged to convene a gathering of the Congregation's three U.S. Universities in order to foster a...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of the Eucharist
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 21, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Founded in 1889 in Greece at Thessalonica (now Salonika) by Reverend Joseph Alloatti, C.M., (1857-1933), and Sister Marianna Pucci, D.C., (1848-1918) with the purpose of promoting Eucharistic devotion in Macedonia and Bulgaria, especially by religious education of...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 14, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
While attending the first Provincial Council of Baltimore in the fall of 1829, Bishop John England of Charleston, SC met four women of that city: sisters Mary and Honora O’Gorman, their niece, Teresa Barry (aged 15), natives of Ireland and Mary Elizabeth Burke, who...
Connect and Learn: Monastery of the Assumption (Monastero Uspenskij)
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 7, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
It was founded in 1957 in Rome, Italy, by Sister Catherine Morosoff, D.C., (b. 1910) under the direction of Pope Pius XII at the recommendation of Cardinal Eugene Tisserant, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Eastern Churches, in order to start a monastery...
Serve: South Sudan
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 30, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Prior to its independence in July 2011 from the old Sudan, South Sudan has known nothing but war and conflict. The devastation that engulfed this part of Africa for more than 20 years included destroyed infrastructure, the highest rate of illiteracy in the world,...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 30, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Historically, the Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish began their life with the Sisters of Charity of Halifax and can trace their roots in the same traditions. The Sisters of St. Martha were formally established as a religious congregation in 1900 after a providential...
Connect and Learn: Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Faith
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 23, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Founded 1867 at Glasnevin in Dublin, Ireland, by Reverend John Gowan, C.M., (1817-1897), and Margaret Aylward (1810-1889), educated in Paris, who first established (1851) the Ladies of Charity in Ireland to deal with poverty from the potato famine. A primary focus was...