Formation
A Vincentian View: All Are Welcome
In the middle of the Acts of the Apostles (c. 15), we find one of the first issues of exclusion in the young Christian community.
Wait for Jesus Christ to Come Back
Jesus, who came to the world from the Father, now leaves the world to go back to the Father. True Christians cannot...
Politics – Did you know…?
Last week Pennsylvania held primary elections. I take voting seriously! I am also curious. So I decided to ask Google...
End Homelessness Throughout The World
One of the four common projects that Fr. Tomaž Mavrič has encouraged members of the Vincentian Family to participate in during this 400th Anniversary year is a project to end homelessness throughout the world, which includes caring for refugees, migrants, street...
Vincentians are Happy Serving our Lord – Vincentians Work Hard with God
Vincentians are Happy Serving our Lord - Vincentians Work Hard with God - JOHN 12:44-50 - Charity and Love Prevail Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast Vincentians are Happy Serving our Lord The desire for happiness is, at its core, the desire for God. The fulfillment...
Vincentian Pilgrimage from Holland to Gannes
We share this chronicle on the peregrination made to Gannes by a group of members of the Vincentian Family of The Netherlands: There he stood, at the middle of the road, when I descended the bus near the church of Gannes, a little village, somewhat above Paris,...
May 21: St. Vincent de Paul Sends First Missionaries to Madagascar
Today is the anniversary of the first missionaries to leave France for Madagascar, May 21, 1648. The voyage took about 7 months and obviously there were many dangers. Read more about the men who risked their lives to bring the light of the gospel to a faraway land,...
Vincentians of Wherever: My Vincentian Journey Towards Simplicity & Awareness
On the Medium Blog Meet me at the Mission, DePaul graduating student Cece Metzdorff writes, When did the word “simple” obtain a negative connotation? While the dictionary may define simple as “easy,” I would like to disagree. I think simplicity is hard....
Adaptation – The Genius of Vincent in Recognizing Lay Women
Over time these confraternities became the principal means through which de Paul engaged with devout Catholic women, who were excluded by their sex from expressing their faith through the functions of ordained ministry but aspired to find alternative means of doing so.
The Fruits of the Holy Spirit and Vincentians’ Life
Christians are human beings of the Holy Spirit, but it is a lifelong process. In this process there are always temptations, inside and outside distracters that lead us astray, recession, and return to the "natural life without the Spirit" (Jude 1:19). We need to...
Forgiveness, Always In Community • A Weekly Reflection with Louise
“I must tell you about another practice which our Most Honored Father strongly recommended to us at the last conference his Charity gave us. He told us that, as soon as we see that we have offended one or several of our sisters, we should immediately kneel and ask...
May 23: Feast of St. Joan Antida Thouret
At 22, Joan Antida Thouret left her home and joined the Daughters of Charity. This life is an exile– a desert we must cross to reach our only true homeland which is heaven. – Saint Joan Antida Thouret https://youtu.be/rNIVuqOgZ8g In 1793, when the French Revolution...