Collaboration

Missionary Cenacle Apostolate – MCA

by Vincentian Family Office | March 14, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments

Doctor Margaret Healy was an early associate of Fr. Thomas Judge, CM. She had known him from his early preaching in Brooklyn, New York. Margaret had followed him as a lay apostle and became an effective recruiter of others. As an educator, she came in contact with...

Collaboration is… to let myself be accompanied

by Javier F. Chento | March 7, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments

A few months ago, I went to visit a friend, an elderly Daughter of Charity. She has retired from all service activity, not because she is already in her eighties, but...because of her illnesses. If it were up to her, she would continue to do something, however small,...

Blessed Trinity Missionary Institute: Connect and Learn

by Vincentian Family Office | March 7, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments

A very gifted member of the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate, Dr. Margaret Healy, following the inspirations of Fr. Thomas Judge, CM, set on the path to create the Blessed Trinity Missionary Institute, a secular institute composed of vowed laity. It was formally...

Collaboration is… get inspired by diversity

by Javier F. Chento | February 29, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments

The Vincentian Family is made of many and diverse branches and people. The personalities and spirituality of St. Vincent, St. Louise, St. Elizabeth Seton, Bl. Frédéric, and of many others have so many facets that it is difficult to cover them in full. We tend to focus...

Sharing Experience Is Collaboration Too

by Javier F. Chento | Apr 29, 2016 | Collaboration, News

A meeting with extramural (correspondent) students (studying family consulting and catechetics as major) from the...

Brazil: a special charitable work exceptionally Vincentian

by Vincentian Family Office | Apr 26, 2016 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

In the city of Fortaleza, capital of Province of Ceara (northeast of Brazil), the Refuge Saint John Gabriel Perboyre,...

Vincentian Family in India: Connect and Learn!

by Vincentian Family Office | Apr 25, 2016 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The Vincentian Family 10th Annual Meeting was held in St Vincent’s Retreat Center, Gopalpur on Sea, on 12th and 13th...

Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill

by Vincentian Family Office | Jul 21, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

In 1869, Bishop Michael Domenec, C.M., of Pittsburgh appealed to the Cincinnati community of Sisters of Charity for sisters to serve the needs of the growing Catholic population in his diocese. Sister Aloysia Lowe, three other Sisters of Charity, and two novices, left...

Philadelphia-area Ministries Gather to Celebrate Year of Vincentian Collaboration

by Vincentian Family Office | Jul 16, 2015 | Formation, News, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

On July 7, 2015 a dozen Vincentian Family branches located in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA region gathered to celebrate the Year of Vincentian Collaboration at the request of Rev. Greg Gay, CM, Superior General. Through celebration and prayer, participants...

Connect and Learn: Soeurs de la Toussaint (Strassburg)

by Vincentian Family Office | Jul 13, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Strassburg (Soeurs de la Toussaint) were established 1734 at Saverne, France, by Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan Soubise, prince bishop of Strasbourg (1704-1749) to address the pressing needs of the poor, especially...

Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity – Halifax

by Vincentian Family Office | Jul 6, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The story of the Canadian foundation of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax begins when four American ladies, black-robed, black-capped, landed in Halifax from the Cunard liner "Cambria" on May 11, 1849. They came from New York City, these first Sisters of Charity, in...

New video on Year of Collaboration

by Vincentian Family Office | Jul 5, 2015 | News, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

New video on Year of Collaboration provides an outline to what will happen. You can choose from many languages. The Year of Vincentian Collaboration: Let's Get Started Here are some new materials published today on the .famvin network. The Vincentian Family...

YVC2015: Let’s Get Started

by Vincentian Family Office | Jul 3, 2015 | Featured Videos, Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy2SdY_joE

Connect and Learn: Daughters of Divine Love

by Vincentian Family Office | Jun 29, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The Daughters of Divine Love Congregation by the special grace of God, without affiliations to any foreign Congregation is the first veritable indigenous Congregation of Women Religious, the fruit of the labour of the early Missionaries in Nigeria. Founded in Ukpor in...

Serve: Germantown Systemic Change Initiative

by Vincentian Family Office | Jun 29, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The Germantown Systemic Change Initiative (GSCI) is a project aimed at improving the lives of the vulnerable citizens of the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia by building meaningful collaboration among community-based organizations and creating a collective...

” We trivialize our charism…” – Prophetic words – Sr. Gertrude Foley SC

by Vincentian Family Office | Jun 25, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

" We trivialize our founders and our charism, if ..." - Prophetic words - Sr. Gertrude Foley SC It was almost 20 years ago at one of the first major gatherings of the Vincentian Family in the US that Sr. Gertrude Foley, SC offered the reflections below. As we begin...