Formation
A Canadian View: Safe, Secure and Affordable Housing is a Human Right!
by Jim Paddon | March 18, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
As Vincentians, we witness the effect that the lack of safe, secure and affordable housing has on the people we serve.
Lenten Video Series: Day 26, Lifting Your Heart Up
by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | March 18, 2021 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
This Lent, we offer to you the 2021 Lenten Video Series created by the Central Association of the Miraculous Medal. Day 26: Lifting Your Heart Up.
Where Do You Fit In?
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | March 18, 2021 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections | 0 Comments
There seems to be a range of attitudes toward the homeless. How do you further conversations with people who have different starting points and live in other categories than your own?
Oxen and Cell Phones
by Jim Claffey | March 18, 2021 | Formation, Vincentian Family at the U.N. | 0 Comments
Cell phones, once a luxury, are now almost a necessity. For the impoverished, especially in rural areas, they can make all the difference for one’s life and health.
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Storing Up (Luke 6:42-45)
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 9, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
In a Lukan parable, Jesus uses the image of “storing,” accumulating and building up a certain quality inside one’s heart.
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Our “Real Families”
by John Freund, CM | Mar 9, 2022 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
I often heard two seemingly contradictory thoughts about parents in “real families.”
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Lenten Video Series, Day 6: Even a Glimpse
by The Miraculous Medal Shrine | Mar 8, 2022 | Formation, Reflections
It is through the Passion and Crucifixion that Jack Ziegler comes face-to-face with Christ’s sacrifice.
A Vincentian View: “Our” Kids
by Pat Griffin, CM | Oct 5, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Vincentian View: “Our Kids” Founder’s Week (September 20-27) at St. John’s University celebrates St. Vincent de Paul whose spirit rests at the heart of our University. This year, the theme for our remembrance was “Vincentian Education: Illuminating minds, creating...
Seeing As The Beginning Of Systemic Change
by John Freund, CM | Oct 5, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
Seeing is the necessary beginning of systemic change. Systemic change requires looking anew at something we see...but do not see. This kind of seeing is really more like reading, reading the "signs of the times." St. Vincent was a man of the concrete whose starting...
Coming Soon: An Online Formation Journey
by Famvin Media Resources | Oct 4, 2016 | Announcements, Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
A Formation Journey: A study of Vincentian Father Corpus Delgado's "The Contributions of the Vincentian Charism to the Mission of the Church." Keep an eye out for this image! Beginning this coming Saturday, October 8, .famvin presents a ten-part series for individual...
Samaritans, Jews and Other Peoples Glorifying the Lord
by Ross Dizon | Oct 4, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus is our peace. He breaks down, then, the wall of enmity among Jews, Samaritans and other peoples. Jews and Samaritans hate each other. Consequently, one group takes the other to be incapable of doing anything good. When such enmity prevails, a scorned person’s...
Helping Others as Jesus Would – God Does Not Make Mistakes
by Lynn L'Heureux | Oct 3, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Helping Others as Jesus Would - God Does Not Make Mistakes - Vincentian Mission - Thirsting for God Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast Helping Others as Jesus Would We are called not only to see Jesus in others, but also to be Jesus to others. Helping others and...
Short Reflection
by Famvin Media Resources | Oct 2, 2016 | Formation
As part of your restful (hopefully) Sunday, or any time, spend a nice minute and a half listening to Sister Suzanne share a reflection about her work serving seniors in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Mercy – The Messianic Mission of Jesus
by Fr. Binoy Puthusery, C.M. | Oct 2, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus begun his messianic mission by saying, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are...
By 2007, Green was unemployed, homeless and addicted to crack cocaine. #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 2, 2016 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
By 2007, Green was unemployed, homeless and addicted to crack cocaine. His wife moved back north. His children stopped talking to him. He wanted to die. In this startling narrative by Tony Abraham, we can really understand what it means to say #IamVincent. It also...
Pope Francis Celebrates the Feast of St. Vincent de Paul with the Vincentian Family
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 1, 2016 | News, Pope, Reflections, Vincentian Family
Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, C.M., Superior General, participated in the Eucharist Pope Francis celebrated in the chapel at the House of Santa Marta, Vatican, on the Feast of Saint Vincent de Paul, September 27, 2016. On the homily of Pope Francis for that day, L'Osservatore...