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The Pope Video • Women in Leadership Roles in the Church
by .famvin | October 10, 2020 | Church, Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: Women in Leadership Roles in the Church.
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?
The Pope Video • An Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle
by .famvin | Sep 4, 2021 | Church, Formation, Reflections
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: An Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle.
From DePaul University: Helping Students Experiencing Food Insecurity
by Famvin Media Resources | Sep 3, 2021 | Formation
In this video from their “Seeds of the Mission” series, Rick Moreci, Director of Housing, Dining, and Student Centers at Depaul University, talks about their student Food Pantry.
Collaboration is… taking up as my own common challenges
by Javier F. Chento | Feb 1, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
We Vincentians are part of a wonderful spiritual family. We drink from the springs of the purest evangelical love, with charity being at the center of our spirituality and our action. This year 2016, we celebrate the Year of Vincentian Collaboration, an event that...
Holiness Sets Us Free
by Lynn L'Heureux | Feb 1, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
This week Lynn L’Heureux reflects on the following: Holiness Sets Us Free - Why do I say “Blessings”? - Walk with God - Beacon of Light Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tuesday February 2, 2016 Dear Vincentian Family: Pray for each other and pray for peace. ...
February 1: Feast of the Martyrs of Angers
by Famvin Media Resources | Jan 31, 2016 | Formation
Reflect on the lives of two Daughters of Charity, martyred during the French Revolution: Sister Marie Ann Vaillot and Sister Odile Baumgarten.
Honoring our Prophets
by John Freund, CM | Jan 31, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Father Pat Griffin concludes his series, Considering Consecrated Life, with a final post dedicated to Honoring our Prophets. This week, we come to the end of the Year of Consecrated Life, but its blessings continue. Along that line, the scripture readings from this...
A World of Merciful Vincentians
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 31, 2016 | Announcements, Formation, News, Social
[Jan. 25, 2016] As I write to you, I am happy to announce that famvin.org/en has a new editor! Working now along side Fr. John Freund, Elizabeth Astridge -- a Vincentian Lay Missionary of the United States -- will be helping to shape the future of .famvin. She will be...
Formation: Learning to See God’s Presence
by John Freund, CM | Jan 30, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
“Formation:” Learning to See God’s Presence (Mk. 3:7-12) One way of looking at this story of healing in Mark is to see it as a case of the wrong people discerning the right things. On the one hand, you’ve got these hoards of people following Jesus, and in so dense...
Vincent was not always a Saint
by John Freund, CM | Jan 30, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Vincent was not always a saint. What were the key formative events? Eamonn Flanagan, CM, from the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission, offered these reflections originally published in 1982 in "Colloque, Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation...
Poverty as social sin
by John Freund, CM | Jan 29, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
Poverty: An Opportunity for Encounter or Exclusion? By: Marian Lamoureux North Central Region Voice of the Poor Leader As Vincentians, have we ever thought about poverty as “social sin?” This notion of social sin is a powerful concept in Catholic social thought and...
Who is Family – Fr. Tom McKenna, CM
by John Freund, CM | Jan 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
“Who is Family?” (Mk 3:31-5) To better digest this story about Jesus’ question, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” I ask you to try a little exercise in imagination. You’re at a family wedding, brothers and sisters, mother and father, cousins and children and...