Formation
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.
Evangelized By Others
by Famvin Media Resources | December 11, 2020 | Formation | 0 Comments
Creating encounters in charity with others brings us closer to God.
Did the Mother of God Speak Spanish?
by John Freund, CM | December 11, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 2 Comments
The mother of Jesus speaks the universal language of mothers or “mother tongue.” In each apparition, she speaks the motherly language of comfort, advice, warning, or encouragement.
Gift of Darkness
by Mary Frances Jaster | December 10, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
As we enter into Advent, let the darkness teach us.
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Depaul Ireland
by Famvin Media Resources | Dec 3, 2021 | Formation, Homelessness, News, Other Branch News
Learn about Depaul Ireland in this video produced by Vincentian Family Ireland.
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I Predict the Synod will…
by John Freund, CM | Dec 3, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
The Church has begun a three-year process focused on not only truly listening to each other.
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A Canadian View: Inter-Generational Trauma, Poverty & Racism, Part Two
by Jim Paddon | Dec 2, 2021 | Formation, Reflections
I would like to examine the relationship between trauma, poverty and (systemic) racism over my next three articles. Part Two discusses poverty.
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...
March 3: Death of Bl. Pierre-René Rogue, C.M., Martyr
by Famvin Media Resources | Feb 26, 2016 | Formation
Blessed Pierre-René Rogue, C.M. lived a courageous life during the time of the French Revolution, when the clergy was heavily persecuted. It is said that Pierre-René was "vertically challenged" (only 4'10" tall) but as you will see in the presentation below, he had a...
The Spirit bestows charisms @DePaul
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 25, 2016 | Formation, News
The Spirit blows where it will. Sometimes institutions help. Edward Ward's story is a special one. "A young black man lies on the icy floor of a family friend’s first floor apartment. There is no heat, and temperatures in the house are below freezing. He is enrolled...
#IamVincent: Simplicity and Racism
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 25, 2016 | Formation, Justice and Peace, Reflections
Watch this short video and then we'll talk about the interface of racism and simplicity in the Vincentian tradition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm5DWa2bpbs Can you see? Remember how Vincent talked about simplicity? "He added that simplicity was a virtue that...
Vincentians Serve! #IamVincent @StJohn’s
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 24, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
This past Winter break, January 10-15, students of St. John’s University traveled to Germantown, PA as a part of the university PLUNGE program. One of many service immersion programs offered each year, so named as students “plunge” into a new community and commit to...
A Vincentian View: The Transfiguration
by Pat Griffin, CM | Feb 24, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
A Vincentian View The Transfiguration “A Sense of Perspective” When one travels on a plane, one sees that there are different kinds of people. I can identify two groups: there are “window people” and there are “aisle people”—I do not think that there is any such...