Formation
A Vincentian View: Be Vincentian, Be a Listener
Each year at St. John’s University we celebrate Founder’s Week from September 20-27.
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?”
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.
Let us Minimize Food Waste
On the level of the Worldwide Vincentian Family, what can we do to promote a reduction in food waste?
A Vincentian Minute: Cradle to Cross
Fr. Rooney, in an Advent – Christmas video on the mystery of the Incarnation in Vincentian thought and practice, reflects on the spirituality that surrounded St. Vincent.
Christmas Prayers for Vincentians from the Holy Land
Please enjoy the following Christmas presentation, featuring the words of former Superior General Fr. G. Gregory Gay, C.M.
What I Dreaded Became a Source of Life
It was a moment I think most of us dreaded. In the later stages of formation some 60 years ago I remember hearing the words “Mr. Freund please.”
A Canadian View: Inter-Generational Trauma, Poverty & Racism, Part Three
I would like to examine the relationship between trauma, poverty and (systemic) racism over my next three articles. Part Three discusses (systemic) racism.
Ready to See (Luke 3:1-6; Phil 1:9-10)
What the teacher had done was prepare him to see. She had given him a way to notice more of what was there.