Each year at St. John’s University we celebrate Founder’s Week from September 20-27.
Formation
Being Vincent de Paul (video)
Have you ever wondered what it would take for you to be St. Vincent de Paul?
Have You Tried Praying the News?
Have you heard the expression “Pray with the bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other?”
Keep Jesus Christ in Our Hearts
Jesus is the Son of God and the Brother of all men and women. To belong to his family means to keep in the heart his teaching. Twelve-year old Jesus sits in the midst of the teachers. He listens and asks them questions; all who hear him are amazed. No doubt, it is...
Christmas With Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
An examination of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Collected Writings reveals many stories of Christmas, often marked by sorrow, illness, and death… but with ever-present threads of joy and hope.
Have We Outgrown Nativity Scenes?
A good number of readers have either witnessed or were participants as children in appropriate costumes and props re-enacted the Nativity scene.
Can Dickens Teach Us Homeless Advocacy?
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol?” Who hasn’t read it, or heard it or seen it on stage or screen?
A Vincentian View: Journeying Together – Joseph and Mary
Pope Francis has decided that an emphasis in our Catholic community for the next few years will focus our attention on the concept of “synodality.”
Who Wants To Change Your Way of Thinking?
Sometimes it seems that everybody wants to change our way of thinking.
Find Jesus Christ on the Outskirts
Jesus is born on the outskirts of Bethlehem, in a shelter for animals in bad weather. There, yes, is where to find and touch him, and be touched by him. “Poignant and powerful, this is a real song, maybe just too real for some tastes.” It is one of the many comments...
Vincentian Prayer Images: One of the Great Saints of History XII
The poor and rich, the weak and the powerful are one and the same flesh of humanity…
Daughters of Charity Services launches campaign to support disadvantaged young families at Christmas
Daughters of Charity Services has launched a new campaign – Make a Child’s Christmas – to raise money for young families in the UK who are struggling to meet basic needs.
