Convergence and commitment on child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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by John Freund, CM | December 22, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
What gift can I bring to those who have no room in the inn?
by Mary Frances Jaster | December 21, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
MISEVI International gathered 40 participants to hear the unique ways countries are accomplishing our mission of guiding, animating, and supporting the missionary presence of the laity.
by Famvin Media Resources | December 20, 2020 | Formation | 0 Comments
Enjoy this video of The Prophecies from the Vincentian Christmas Novena, sung at St. Vincent De Paul Church in St. Louis, Missouri, along with some of the history of the Novena.
by Vincentian Family Office | December 20, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
These days we are living are days, hours, months, the years of miracles. They challenge us to look for the hope in the miracles around us: of birth, of waiting, of death, of the promise of eternal life.
by Nuala Kenny | Dec 12, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
Convergence and commitment on child sexual exploitation and abuse.
by Famvin Media Resources | Dec 10, 2021 | Formation, News, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
Learn about the Vincentian Lay Missionaries in Ireland in this video produced by Vincentian Family Ireland.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 10, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
When I was growing up there was a wonderful series on that still new medium … television.
by Michael Whalen, CM | Mar 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Fool’s Pardon: A Meditation in Two Parts on Mercy as Sheer Gift of Accepting and Offering (Inter)Personal Forgiveness II In the previous meditation (Part I) we explored a type of theoria regarding the nature and characteristics of forgiveness. Before moving forward...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 23, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
When we go to visit the poor we should so identify with them that we share their sufferings. We should have the same attitude as the great apostle who said omnibus omnia factus sum, I make myself all to all, so completely that the words of the prophet would not apply...
by Elizabeth Astridge | Mar 23, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
A Vincentian View “The Cross: All about Giving” In Christian circles, this past Sunday, March 20, is most often called “Palm Sunday” but also “Passion Sunday” since one proclaims the story of Jesus’ suffering and death. Now, the cross begins to move towards center...
by Ross Dizon | Mar 22, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus wants us to have a faith that is firm as a rock and immense as the sea. This faith, made alive by love, prompts Mary of Magdala to go to Jesus’ tomb at the first opportunity. Due to the same faith, this female disciple stays outside the tomb weeping, after...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 22, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul is an Association maintained by its Faith and Catholic beliefs, but in which it is also essential, in order to preserve its identity and mission, its spirituality to be centered and geared towards people in poverty and social risk....
by Elizabeth Astridge | Mar 22, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
What happened to the issue of poverty? Like a set of misplaced keys, I know it was there a minute ago but now I can’t find it. Within the past year, poverty was the issue of the day on the national stage. Stemming from the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty,...
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 21, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
We are entering the most important liturgical time for the people of God: we celebrate the passion of Jesus Christ, the death that begets life and confirms the commitment of God the Father to His Son Jesus Christ and to all humanity through Him. In celebrating the...
by Lynn L'Heureux | Mar 21, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Vincentians Care - Vincentians Bring Mercy – Forgiveness is Power - Vincentians Validated by God Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Vincentians Care - Identifying the least among us and reaching out to them is a good Lenten exercise. As...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 21, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Rev. Thomas Augustine Judge, CM, founder of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, was ordained a Vincentian priest in Philadelphia in 1899. On April 11, 1909, at a meeting at St. John the Baptist Parish in Brooklyn, New York, six women responded to his...