As every year, I send you the activities of the CIF for the next year 2022. Within the CIF we work to spread Vincentian ethics and spirituality.
Formation
Lessons Learned During the Pandemic, 21: To Live with Calmness and to Engage in Respectful and Active Listening
by María Ángeles Ramírez | November 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
This health crisis has tested me emotionally and I have discovered that placing my trust in God is a WONDERFUL OPTION … one that is worthwhile.
A Steadying Presence (Ps 128; Romans 8:35-39)
by Tom McKenna, CM | November 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
“God” is not just another word, but rather the designation of the overflowing reality at the heart of everything.
Systemic Change Begins with Education
by John Freund, CM | November 18, 2020 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change, Vincentian Family | 1 Comment
St. Vincent instinctively realized the role of laypersons in bringing about systemic change.
Judge the Blessed and the Accursed
by Ross Dizon | November 17, 2020 | Formation, Reflections | 1 Comment
A Vincentian Minute: Vincentian Discernment, Part 4
by Famvin Media Resources | Nov 7, 2021 | Formation
Fr. Rooney’s teacher, Sr. Loretto Gettemeier, D.C., told him, “We must respond to needs. That is a question of conscience. To know that something must be done and to remain passive and unresponsive is to fail to respond to God’s Will making itself known to us through events.”
The Pope Video • People Who Suffer From Depression
by .famvin | Nov 6, 2021 | Church, Formation, Reflections
“The Pope Video” series continues! Watch the latest 2-minute installment: People Who Suffer From Depression.
Take courage
by John Freund, CM | Jan 12, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Sisters of Charity
In Take courage Sr. Janet Gildea, a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, shares her ongoing journey through chemotherapy. I received my fifth chemo yesterday, sleeping through most of the six hour infusion while listening to “All Things Bright and Beautiful” as...
Welcoming the Stranger
by Lynn L'Heureux | Jan 12, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Mary Mother of God – Welcoming the Stranger – God’s Mercy – New Year’s Resolutions Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tues. Jan. 12, 2016 Dear Vincentian Brothers and sisters: Pray Always for those we serve and our Vincentian Family around the world. Remember to...
New undoubtedly and completely
by Ross Dizon | Jan 11, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Changing water into wine, Jesus is manifested as the Author and Perfecter of the new thing prophesied in Is 43, 19: “See, I am doing something new.” Jesus makes use of “six stone water jars … for Jewish ceremonial washings.” Could this be another way of saying that he...
Connect and Learn: Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul
by Vincentian Family Office | Jan 11, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
The Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul was founded in Ukraine (in the Byzantine rite) by Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky on June 8, 1926 as eastern branch of the Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent, originated in Deinze, Belgium in...
God’s Beloved Child
by John Freund, CM | Jan 10, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Remember how God whispered to us on the day of our Baptism: you are my beloved child, I am pleased with you.
Vincentians of Wherever: Alexis Fuentes
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jan 10, 2016 | Formation, Other Branch News, Reflections
You find Vincentians in cities, towns, schools, cafes... wherever. In a recent interview in a cafe in northern New Jersey, Alexis Fuentes, a former Missionary Cenacle Volunteer, spoke with me about her connection to the Vincentian Family and a bit of her life now....
60 Seconds with Sister Carmeli Proano
by John Freund, CM | Jan 8, 2016 | Daughters of Charity, Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
Sister Carmeli Proano, D.C., gives us 60 seconds about the value of community life as a Daughter of Charity. https://youtu.be/z5TOZ_r6Jio http://daughters-of-charity.com/year-of-consecrated-life As followers to the call of consecrated life, Daughters of Charity are...
God of the journey
by John Freund, CM | Jan 7, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Sisters of Charity
Sr. Tracy Kemme, SC offers another one of her reflections, God of the Journey, in her series for the blog The Future of Charity Yesterday, I witnessed two college friends enter into the covenant of marriage. The beautiful Mass took place in the Chapel of the...
January 7: Feast of Blessed Lindalva Justo de Oliveira
by John Freund, CM | Jan 6, 2016 | Daughters of Charity, Formation
In her vocational journey as a Daughter of Charity, Blesssed Lindalva Justo de Oliveira was sent to Salvador in Bahia, Brazil to a shelter for the elderly called “Dom Pedro II”. Like Marguerite Naseau, the good country girl at the time of Saint Vincent (the “first...