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Year of Vincentian Collaboration
What is Vincentian Collaboration?
by Vincentian Family Office | July 25, 2016 | Collaboration, Congregation of the Mission, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments
News from Eritrea
by Vincentian Family Office | July 4, 2016 | News, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments
Year of Vincentian Collaboration: Informal Evaluation Survey
by Vincentian Family Office | May 30, 2016 | Social, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (3)
by Javier F. Chento | May 16, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Year of Vincentian Collaboration | 0 Comments
Helpers of the Souls in Purgatory (Auxiliatrices)
by Vincentian Family Office | Apr 4, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Founded in 1856 at Paris, France, by Blessed Eugene Smet, (1825-1871, beatified in 1957), (in religion, Mary of...
Collaboration is… to look forward always
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 28, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
We have just finished our yearly celebration of Jesus Christ’s victory over death and sin. The Easter Triduum is the...
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...
Autumn Meeting Vincentian Family the Netherlands
by John Freund, CM | Nov 28, 2015 | News, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
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
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...