For some months we have been working with a team of translators and collaborators to be able to offer everyone the...
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The Vincentian Virtues Today
by Famvin Media Resources | October 9, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
The five Virtues passed down to us by St. Vincent both clash with and connect with characteristics of the present culture.
A Canadian View: A Diversity Alliance
by Jim Paddon | October 8, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Let us join in a diversity alliance that is inclusive of all racialized persons and fulfills what God has given us all.
Living in a Tent as a Retirement Plan
by Fr. Michael Carroll, CM | October 8, 2020 | Formation, Homelessness, Reflections | 1 Comment
Can you imagine being in the situation of an elderly homeless man living in a tent as a Retirement Plan?
Lessons learned during the pandemic, #15: To lean on God and to support one another
by Paula Martínez y Alberto Gómez | October 7, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
We can affirm that “everything is grace.” Despite the fact that we have not left our house, we feel that we are in communion with the whole Church.
A Vincentian Minute: 3 things about Blessed Frederic Ozanam
by Famvin Media Resources | Aug 22, 2021 | Formation
Fr. Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. presents: three things about Blessed Frederic Ozanam.
St. Louise’s Notes on the Ladies of Charity
by Famvin Media Resources | Aug 20, 2021 | Formation, International Association of Charities - Ladies of Charity
A presentation based on some notes written about the early Ladies of Charity by St. Louise de Marillac.
Not Just Interesting, But Moving
by Tom McKenna, CM | Mar 2, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
“Not Just Interesting, But Moving” (Exodus 3; Psalm 103) There’s a difference between things that are interesting and things that are intriguing, between things which make us curious and things which actually move us. I can pick up a score of a symphony and...
Team: Collaborative style in systemic change
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 2, 2016 | Formation, Systemic change
Team. We say it often. In our efforts in collaboration for systemic change, we spend a lot of time trying to find people with the right talents, and the right capacities. But we pay less attention to creating the right atmosphere for a particular mix of personalities....
Now on Social: The GrantSpace Blog
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 1, 2016 | Formation, Social
Often these days, a blog gets overlooked. Why? Because it doesn’t talk about missionaries, or ministers. It talks about volunteers. For sure, there is a great difference in a person who comes to serve because they are called: a vocation to ministry; or because of...
Banquet for the holy and not so holy
by Ross Dizon | Mar 1, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus invites even sinners to the banquet of the kingdom. The strict practitioners of religion complain once again that Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them. They probably deride him, whispering to each other, “You cannot take him to any banquet.” But again, too,...
Lent and Louise
by Elizabeth Astridge | Mar 1, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Lenten Reflection by Denise Bondy: Lent 2016 brings us back to the desert. For my husband and me that means the desert of western Arizona as well as our own personal deserts. There are people who don’t like the desert. They think of it as a place of vast...
Collaboration is… get inspired by diversity
by Javier F. Chento | Feb 29, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
The Vincentian Family is made of many and diverse branches and people. The personalities and spirituality of St. Vincent, St. Louise, St. Elizabeth Seton, Bl. Frédéric, and of many others have so many facets that it is difficult to cover them in full. We tend to focus...
Vincentian Faith Brings Joy
by Lynn L'Heureux | Feb 29, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Vincentian Faith brings Joy - Vincentians Works of Mercy - Reaching our Full Potential – Listen to My Son Vincentian Day of Fast and Prayer – Tuesday March 1, 2016 Vincentian Faith brings Joy - To have faith in Jesus means that we, too, can experience joy even while...
Lenten shift: from fasting to feeding your Vincentian soul
by John Freund, CM | Feb 27, 2016 | Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
A Lenten Shift, metaphorically "shifting gears" in Lent, can be a helpful process. Change what you do. Change what you see, change what you read. We fast so we can feed the deeper parts of ourselves. This is the first of a four week series that invites us to feed our...
Francis: God is Love
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 27, 2016 | Church, Formation, Pope
Photo By Christoph Wagener - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26614990 Pope Francis addressed the participants of a conference to mark the 10th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical ‘Deus Caritas Est.’ The...