Formation
Just Servants of the Holy Lord
Jesus is the image of the all-just God who alone is good. Before him and before God, no one is just. Last Sunday’s...
Vincentian Prayer Images: “The Colors of Charity” • 20
This series is a visual memory of the art exhibition “The Colors of Charity,” which was on exhibit from 15 December 2017 to 25 February 2018 at the Collegio Alberoni of Piacenza.
A Vincentian Minute: Vincentian Educational Values – Part 4
In this series Fr. Rooney explores the Values of Vincentian Education proposed by Daughter of Charity Sr. Louise Sullivan.
Repent and Believe in the Gospel
Jesus, though without sin, embodies what it means to repent. He calls us to preach repentance and become the visible and effective sign of what we preach. Jesus begins his public ministry, proclaiming: “The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the...
Parish Becomes Intercultural
4,800 miles. That's how far our Guatemalan parishioners traveled from their villages to get to Cincinnati. Each of those miles meant stepping further away from their families and homeland, and closer to an uncertain future in a strange country. And yet they kept...
St. Francis Regis Clet, C.M., Martyr
Saint Francis Regis Clet, C.M. (Feast Day: July 9) went to China as a missionary in 1791.
Advocacy Connection: Standing in Support of DREAMers
At the National Assembly in Kansas City on September 9, 2017, the Ladies of Charity of the United States of America adopted a resolution to stand with DREAMers as they seek a permanent solution to their "lack of status" in the US. The young people we are...
A Sacramental Imagination
Catholics live in an enchanted world, a world of statues and holy water, stained glass and votive candles, saints and religious medals, rosary beads and holy pictures. But these Catholic paraphernalia are mere hints of a deeper and more pervasive religious sensibility...
The Pope Video • Priests and Their Pastoral Ministry
This month, the Pope asks us to pray that priests, who experience fatigue and loneliness in their pastoral work, may find help and comfort in their intimacy with the Lord and in their friendship with their brother priests. Pope Francis - July 2018 [youtube...
July 9: Feast of St. Francis Regis Clet, C.M.
Videos narrated in English and Mandarin on the life of St. Francis Regis Clet.
Do Vincentians Really Have the Smell of the Sheep?
The first time Pope Francis caught our attention with the image of the “smell of the sheep” was a mere two weeks after he became Pope.
Programs: Vincentians in Action
Creative programs for formation abound in the Vincentian Family, but too often we operate in “silos,” walled off from one another.