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Advent: A Season of Peace
by Famvin Media Resources | December 13, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Fr. Robert Maloney, CM reflects on peace as a theme of Advent.
Relive the Advent Prayer experience of the Vincentian Family 2020
by Vincentian Family Office | December 12, 2020 | Formation, News, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice | 0 Comments
Encyclical ‘Fratelli Tutti’: Summary and Commentary (Part 7)
by René Stockman | December 12, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Bro. René Stockman offers here a short summary of chapter 7 of the Encyclical Letter “Fratelli Tutti”, followed by a more personal reflection.
Advent Reflections: Vincentian Family Office (Part Two)
by Vincentian Family Office | December 11, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Fr. Joe Agostino, CM, from the Vincentian Family Office offers a brief video on Advent.
Vincentian Prayer Images: One of the Great Saints of History VI
by John Freund, CM | Nov 9, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Vincent would try to lift the poor out of their corporal and spiritual poverty and to make the rich put themselves at the service of the poor.
International Formation Center in Paris (CIF): Activities for the Year 2022
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 8, 2021 | Formation, News, Vincentian Family
As every year, I send you the activities of the CIF for the next year 2022. Within the CIF we work to spread Vincentian ethics and spirituality.
Why We Serve: Students Embrace the Mission
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 25, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Why We Serve: giving testimony is part of saying #IamVincent. Thanks to Sister Pat Evanick, D.C., for bring this to our attention. Click on the name of each student to read their testimony. This past year, St. John’s students dedicated nearly 100,000 hours to service....
St. Louise: Moving Toward Love
by Tom McKenna, CM | May 25, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
St. Louise: Moving Toward Love (Is. 58: Mt. 25) There’s a famous quote attributed to Mark Twain: When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much...
Generosity that is Eucharistic and priestly
by Ross Dizon | May 24, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Dying on the cross, Jesus consummates his generosity. He thus stands out as the most compassionate of all, and the one and only supreme mediator between God and us. How admirable Jesus’ generosity! Though rich, he becomes poor for our sake, so that by his poverty...
Transforming parishes: SSVP work on the local church level
by Elizabeth Astridge | May 24, 2016 | Formation, News
Quinella, 12 years old, was a special needs child, a middle child between two brothers, and daughter to a struggling single parent. In one month, she was a truant because her mother didn’t have money to send her to school, and when she did attend, her school had a...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (4)
by Javier F. Chento | May 23, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Reflections
4. On retirement and “early retirement” of family members... The bourgeois society in which we are immersed sneaks through the cracks of our familiar habitat, whether of one kind or another, of one branch or another. Creeping all too frequently into our life, and our...
Vincentian Charism ~ Beatitude People
by Lynn L'Heureux | May 23, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Vincentian Day of Fast and Prayer – Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Vincentian Charism - Charism is a mystery. The meaning of the charism is revealed during the course of history and the Vincentian experience. No one — not even Saint Vincent — completely understands all the...
VFCAP goes to Taiwan!
by Vincentian Family Office | May 23, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation
Knowing the need for deeper collaboration among Vincentian Family groups in Taiwan, the Congregation of the Mission Chinese Province organized a workshop for Vincentian collaboration last week, May 16-19, 2016 . Ms. Pamela Mantuhac, a member of the design-team of...
St. Louise and the Blessed Trinity
by Famvin Media Resources | May 22, 2016 | Formation
It may be difficult for us to see any kind of practical relevance in the doctrine of the Trinity; it remains a mystery. But consider how Fr. Jerome Magat explains it in a May 24, 2013 article called Imitating the Trinity: The Trinity reveals to us the master plan of...
The tomb of Blessed Frederic Ozanam, now and then
by Javier F. Chento | May 22, 2016 | Formation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
The tomb of Blessed Frederic Ozanam is located in the crypt of the historic church of St. Joseph des Carmes in Paris. The church was the scene of some of the bloodiest massacres of ecclesiastics of the infamous Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. Visitors...