“Youth and Life” is a civil association founded in 2002 by Father Miguel Blázquez Avix, CM dedicated to protecting at risk children by providing them with a home.
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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 Collaborative Witness (Luke 8:1-3)
by Tom McKenna, CM | October 7, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Certainly the words and actions of such groups are meant to proclaim God’s Kingdom, but their very collaboration is itself an announcement of the Message.
Pope Francis’ Encyclical Read as a Puzzle
by John Freund, CM | October 7, 2020 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections | 3 Comments
In a beautiful document on the call to human community, Pope Francis offers the “Good Samaritan” as a lens through which we can look at the many serious problems of a polarized and insensitive world.
Guests at the Kingly Wedding Feast
by Ross Dizon | October 6, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
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.
Hannah’s Prayer – Fr. Tom McKenna
by Tom McKenna, CM | Jan 19, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Fr. Tom Mckenna offers this reflection on Hannah’s Prayer (I Samuel 1:9-20) In a talk on the spirituality of the Twelve Steps, the speaker told a story of a woman who was being swept along in a powerful ocean current. She was a swimmer and so at first wasn’t...
Let God In
by Lynn L'Heureux | Jan 18, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Let God In - Called by Name - Forgive and ask for Forgiveness - Ordinary Time Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tuesday January 19, 2016 Dear Vincentian Family- Please pray and serve with Mercy in this Jubilee year. Pray for our clergy, religious and seminarians. ...
Holy Hangout – Life issues
by John Freund, CM | Jan 18, 2016 | Daughters of Charity, Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
The most recent Daughters of Charity Holy Hang Out focused on the full spectrum of life issues. They invited questions via YouTube and Twitter. Sisters involved with life issues across the Catholic pro-life issues spectrum from conception all the way through natural...
Connect and Learn: Brothers of Charity
by Vincentian Family Office | Jan 18, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
The Brothers of Charity were founded in 1807 at Ghent, Belgium, by Pierre Joseph Triest (1760-1836) for nursing and education. This priest founded four congregation to aid the poor in the spirit of Saint Vincent de Paul, the patron of this institute. Triest himself...
Personal judgment
by John Freund, CM | Jan 17, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
In his weekly series "Considering Consecrated Life" Father Pat Griffin reflects on Personal Judgment. At the daily Eucharist during this past week, the First Book of Samuel provided the first reading. We heard the interesting story of the origin and commissioning of...
Vincentians of Wherever: Relationships—Can’t shake ‘em!
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 17, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Josh Wise, who talks to us about significant relationships, is a Louisiana native that joined the Colorado Vincentian Volunteers (CVV) in the summer of 2008. He worked with Archdiocesan Housing and the Mary Lucy computer Lab & Neighborhood Network Center. He has...
Reading the Signs: Dark or Light?
by John Freund, CM | Jan 17, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
In this reflection, written for a celebration of the feast of the Epiphany Fr. Tom McKenna offers thoughts on how do I understand this particular story -- how am I reading the signs -- that is so outside my usual way of looking at the world? You could look on this...
The stress of poverty and our role as advocates
by John Freund, CM | Jan 15, 2016 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
In "Behavioral Science and the Stress of Poverty: Dan Torrington, SVDP Western Region Voice of the Poor Leader writes "Once we as Vincentians begin to really appreciate the mental and emotional stress of scarcity, as well as the physical toll poverty exacts, we know...
What It’s Like To Be Homeless and Lose Everything
by John Freund, CM | Jan 15, 2016 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
A great vinFormation resource teaches what it’s like to be homeless and lose everything. Hobson's choice* is the literary way of saying one has no choice at all. The only option you have is the one that is being offered to you. We have all found ourselves in such...