Formation

Who are your Friends?

by John Freund, CM | December 11, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

“Tell me your friends, and I will tell you who you are.” These words are but echoes of words spoken over 400 years before Christ.

What Should We Do to Attain Joy and Peace?

by Ross Reyes Dizon | December 10, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

Jesus makes known to us his joy and his peace. Hence, it is enough for us to go to him to get an answer to the question, “What should we do?” We can thus be full of his joy and his peace. It seems that the one who calls folks to repent and be cleansed of their sins...

December 10: Feast Day of Bl. Marcantonio Durando, C.M.

by Famvin Media Resources | December 9, 2024 | Formation | 0 Comments

On December 10 we celebrate the feast day of Blessed Marcantonio Durando, C.M., who became known as the “St. Vincent of Italy”.

Firewood for the Soul: Around the Same Table

by Samantha Hill and James Hodge | December 9, 2024 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments

A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.

A Vincentian Minute: Vincentians Living Advent and Christmas 01

by Famvin Media Resources | Dec 8, 2024 | Formation

Fr. Rooney extends the Sunday Scriptures for Vincentians.

On December 10 We Celebrate the Feast of Blessed Marcantonio Durando

by A Group of Nazarene Sisters | Dec 8, 2024 | Formation, Vincentian Family

Marco Antonio Durando (1801-1880) was an Italian priest and missionary of the Congregation of the Mission. Dedicated to popular missions and caring for the most needy, he founded the Daughters of the Passion of Jesus the Nazorean to serve the sick and the poor.

Simplicity and Cordiality • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | Dec 7, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

[The conferences] are blooming in Livorno and in Pisa, they begin to prosper in Florence, in Pontadera, they settle in...

After Thanksgiving Day, Where Do All The “Thanks” Go ?

by John Freund, CM | Dec 4, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

For most, but not for everyone, Thanksgiving is a day with lots of good things to eat, parades and football games to watch, family traditions to be celebrated.

Advent from a Vincentian Perspective, Part 2: Hope in the Incarnation: A God Close to the Poor

by .famvin | Dec 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

In the Incarnation, we discover a God who does not remain distant but chooses to come near, taking on human flesh to dwell among us.

Contemplation: Be Quite Cheerful

by Tim Williams | Dec 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul

True joy in giving comes from seeing charity as serving Christ Himself, not as interruptions. With love and gratitude, this vocation brings grace and deep, lasting joy.

Concern for Others that All Must See

by Ross Reyes Dizon | Dec 3, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

Jesus is God’s concern for us in person. So, it is right that Paul asks us Christians to let all see our concern for others. The prophet Baruch and the prophet Isaiah proclaim God’s concern for us, though not in an express way. For the first reading and Is 40, 1-5...

The Little Brothers of the Congregation of St. John the Baptist: Mission, History and Spirituality in the Chinese Context

by .famvin | Dec 3, 2024 | Formation, Vincentian Branches

The Little Brothers of the Congregation of St. John the Baptist, founded by Father Vincent Lebbe CM in 1928, were born with the aim of serving the poor and promoting an autonomous Chinese Church.

Firewood for the Soul: Having a Voice

by Samantha Hill and James Hodge | Dec 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

A weekly reflection for all the Vincentian Family, from Australia.

A Vincentian Minute: Vincentian Thoughts 08

by Famvin Media Resources | Dec 1, 2024 | Formation

Fr. Rooney reflects on the small ways of remembering that we are Vincentians.

Vincentians in Public Life • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam

by Javier F. Chento | Nov 30, 2024 | Formation, Reflections

At the same time, another thirty conferences formed in the most distant points of the country, celebrated the same solemnity. How can we not have any hope in that force of association, exerted mainly in the big cities, in all the faculties of Law, in all the centers...