This Advent letter is an invitation to pray, meditate, and interiorize the “Evangelical Counsels” as a means to pursue our journey with Saint Vincent de Paul, a “Mystic of Charity.”
Formation
First Aid AND Long-term Solutions Needed For the Homeless
The Vincentian Family is committed to a collaborative worldwide effort to eradicate homelessness by 2030. We can only get to 2030 by looking at homelessness in 2020.
The Student is the Teacher’s Masterpiece: St. Albert the Great and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Teachers can’t expect to have a student as exceptional as St. Thomas Aquinas, but both Albertus Magnus and Mother Seton understood that every teacher can create “masterpieces” by forming students in Christ’s image.
The Ministry of Encouragement
The Ministry of Encouragement (Hebrews 12:1) There’s a wonderfully comforting image in the Letter to the Hebrews which has special application to us in Vincent’s Family. The author sets out to build up his struggling fellow believers and does this through a...
Developing a Culture of Mission
This post connects a couple of dots. The first dot is that systemic change flourishes when there is a careful understanding of the situation. The other dot is that that a culture of vocations is really a culture of mission.
Everything, Give Up Everything for Jesus’ Sake
Jesus proclaims the Good News of the Kingdom and helps all kinds of needy people. Those who give up everything to follow him will inherit the Kingdom and its assets and riches. While Jesus is setting out on a journey, an unidentified man runs up to him. As...
A Gift for Friendship: Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Video testimony of a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul who has a gift for supporting people in desperate situations including prison visitation.
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The Colors of Charity [Video]
The Congregation of the Mission, on its YouTube Channel, has recently published a video about "the Vincentian charism narrated through art," which we invite you to see. It is narrated in Italian, but it has subtitles in English: https://youtu.be/SYSw4knnGAE
A Call to Serve: Young Vincentian Having an Impact
In a video posted by Vinnies Victoria, a young Vincentian tells his story. Much like St. Vincent de Paul Society Founder, Frederic Ozanam, he first became involved as a university student.
The Synod as an Emmaus Journey!
My hope is that all the participants of the Youth Synod will experience their own version of the Emmaus journey – looking at things they thought they knew… but seeing them in a new light. Now that would be the beginning of a profound systemic change!
A Vincentian View: The Listening of God
Vincentian View: “The Listening of God” Last time that I had the opportunity to write something, I took the opportunity to reflect on our need to listen. In this past week, I have had my mind turned to thinking about God’s listening to us. I do not...
Stitching Tweets Together: Using a Twitter Thread
With a twitter thread you can provide additional context, an update, or an extended point by connecting multiple Tweets together.
