Given that adequate housing is an issue of social justice, it might be helpful to look at the concept of justice in light of the need for a home for all.
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by Famvin Media Resources | June 5, 2021 | Formation, International Association of Charities - Ladies of Charity | 1 Comment
The fourth in a series of videos offered by the AIC International Training Team to mark the Feast of St. Louise de Marillac.
by .famvin | June 5, 2021 | Church, Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: The Beauty of Marriage.
by Famvin Media Resources | June 4, 2021 | Formation | 0 Comments
Learn about some stumbling blocks that threatened St. Louise, and most likely all of us who aspire to serve our neighbors well.
by John Freund, CM | June 4, 2021 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments
Vincent and Louise were at best an improbable couple. We are blessed to know the outcomes of the 35-year intersection of these two lives.
by Archbishop emeritus Sylvain Lavoie | Apr 23, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
Given that adequate housing is an issue of social justice, it might be helpful to look at the concept of justice in light of the need for a home for all.
by Lisa Lickona | Apr 23, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
With St. Mary Magdalene, let us accept Christ’s ‘Do not touch me’ with the certainty that His words give us a new mission, and a new way to be with Him, just as St. Elizabeth Ann Seton met the hardships of her life with renewed faith and strength.
by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 22, 2022 | Formation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
From our friends at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA, a formation resource on Servant Leadership.
by John Freund, CM | Mar 4, 2017 | Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
This is the third of a series of formation packages meant for individual or group study based upon “The Prophetic Dimension of the Vincentian Charism in light of the Social Doctrine of the Church” by Sr. María Pilar López. This section is the longest of the article....
by Benito Martínez, C.M. | Mar 3, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
"Monsieur, Louise de Marillac, widow of Monsieur Le Gras, secretary to the Queen, Mother of the King, very humbly supplicates Monsieur des Roches, Rector of Notre-Dame de Paris, informing him that the sight of the great number of poor in the Saint-Denis district leads...
by Famvin Media Resources | Mar 3, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
During Lent we orient ourselves toward Jerusalem/Calvary, where we’ll follow Jesus through the last week of his life. This Slideshare, based on one of the Lenten letters of Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M., invites each of us to ponder our own life and death. [slideshare...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 2, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Our friend and "Vincentian of Wherever," Mike Jordan Laskey has a new article at National Catholic Reporter. I wonder how the country might change if we Christians doubled down on our Lenten observance this year — not just as individuals focusing on our own spiritual...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 2, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
We're all looking to refresh our Lenten practices. As Family with a deep devotion to the Blessed Mother, why not walk the 40 days with Mary? Kathleen Beckmann writes: Mary enriches our spiritual journey always. Perhaps we can consider living the Lenten season with...
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 1, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Talk, Speech, Deed (1 Cor 2: 1-5) In one of the many commentaries on the quality of the rhetoric in the recent campaign, I came across a distinction I had never thought of – the difference between talk and speech. Talk, whatever comes to you on the spot, or from off...
by Ross Dizon | Feb 28, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is God-Man. He himself unmasks the deceit in the devil’s tempting suggestion: it is either God or man. From the perspective of our faith in the Word made flesh, we cannot but reject such tempting suggestion. It is not true that one must choose either God or...
by Lynn L'Heureux | Feb 27, 2017 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Building Humility- Created for Holiness - Lily of Purity- Connecting with God Vincentian Stories of the Heart Building Humility In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could harden our hearts, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of...
by Javier F. Chento | Feb 27, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
“The mystery of the Holy Trinity”: this is the theme proposed by Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, for the time of Lent, in a letter addressed to the entire Vincentian Family, which we have reproduced below. After the text, you will find links to download his letter in several...