Collaboration
Year of Vincentian Collaboration: Informal Evaluation Survey
As we conclude the Vincentian Family Year of Collaboration, the Vincentian Family Collaboration Commission (VFCC)...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (4)
4. On retirement and “early retirement” of family members... The bourgeois society in which we are immersed sneaks...
VFCAP goes to Taiwan!
Knowing the need for deeper collaboration among Vincentian Family groups in Taiwan, the Congregation of the Mission...
Connect and Learn: Vincentian Conference of Presidents
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...
Living in Community || Ministering in Groups
In all the Vincentian Family, we either minister in groups, in communities, or families. On this Feast of the Holy Family, I though I would share some ideas on how this can function more fruitfully. St. Vincent de Paul had something to say, and contemporary thinkers...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of the Eucharist
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
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)
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
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
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...
Autumn Meeting Vincentian Family the Netherlands
Autumn Meeting Vincentian Family the Netherlands took place at Tilburg, 25 November 2015 The Dutch branches of the Vincentian family come together twice a year. These meetings are designed to meet, inform, and inspire each other. On Wednesday, November 25th, the...
Connect and Learn: Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Faith
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...