In her essay “In the Service of Life,” Rachel Naomi Remen distinguishes service from “helping” and “fixing.”
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Vincentian Marian Youth General Assembly: “Witness with Hope” (Day #1)
by Vincentian Family Office | July 15, 2021 | News, Vincentian Marian Youth | 0 Comments
Yesterday, Wednesday July 14, the General Assembly 2021 of Vincentian Marian Youth began. From the VMY International Facebook page you can follow the event.
Homelessness is on the rise
by Pattie Hughes, Vincentian | July 15, 2021 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N. | 0 Comments
As the pandemic spread throughout the world the number of people without homes has grown exponentially.
Tanzania water project provides lifegiving help to locals
by Vincentian Family Office | July 12, 2021 | Daughters of Charity, News | 0 Comments
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development is supporting efforts to ensure access to safe, clean water for Catholic health care facilities around the world.
Vincentian Mapping Project
by Vincentian Homeless Alliance | July 11, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
If you ask Vincentians why their work with homeless people is essential, you will receive a number of answers.
Images from Ukraine
by Max Rodríguez | Mar 24, 2022 | Conflict in Ukraine, Formation, Reflections
The images that are presented to us through the press and social networks from Ukraine are heartbreaking.
Commission on the Status of Women – CSW66
by Teresa Kotturan, SCN | Mar 24, 2022 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Studies have shown that it is women and girls who are disproportionately affected by climate change.
VI SSVP Ibero-American Meeting
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 14, 2017 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
National Presidents from Americas, Spain and Portugal will meet in Quito. From November 15 to 19, 2017, the International General Council, through the International Territorial Vice Presidencies America 1 (North America and the Caribbean), America 2 (Central America...
Misevi-Egypt holds its First Meeting
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 13, 2017 | News, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
The association of Lay Vincentians Missionaries in Egypt known as MISEVI-EGYPTE officially held the first meeting on Friday, October 13 at Cairo, Al-Helmeya House of the Daughters of Charity. The meeting started with the mass service conducted by Father Milad Zakhary...
Sixty Vincentians martyred during Spanish Civil War are beatified
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Nov 12, 2017 | Church, News, Vincentian Family
This past Saturday Saturday 60 members of the Vincentian Family who were martyred during the Spanish Civil War were beatified at a Mass in Madrid, a “celebration of hope, faith and forgiveness.” “The grace experienced by these martyrs is impossible to understand...
Sisters of Charity of Nazareth: Three times 100
by Elizabeth Astridge | Nov 11, 2017 | News, Sisters of Charity
Centenarian Sisters at Nazareth On October 11, Sister Alice Teresa Wood celebrated her 101st birthday. Here she is pictured with two other Sisters of Charity of Nazareth centenarians, Sister John Ann Kulina to her left, 100, and Sister Evelyn Hurley to her right, 102....
Celebrating 150 Years of SSVP in Slovakia and New Zealand
by Elizabeth Astridge | Nov 10, 2017 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Slovakia and New Zealand both recently celebrated 150th Anniversaries of the presence of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. Read about their celebrations below. Slovakia Saturday 23rd of September the members of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul in Slovakia...
Edmonton, Alberta: We’ll be one of 150 Cities Free of Homelessness
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Nov 9, 2017 | Announcements, News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Edmonton is on the move. 150 cities. By 2030. That's the idea that the Institute for Global Homelessness has planted. It's part of the larger initiative that they are leading as an institution deeply rooted in the Vincentian Family (at DePaul University). From their...
Students Share Time with Vincentian Family U.N. Representatives
by Ed Keane, SSVP | Nov 9, 2017 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
Wednesday, November 1 was All Saint Day, and I found myself sitting in a meeting room at The Church Center at United Nations Headquarters in New York with a group of approximately 35 college students from Saint John’s University. Included as part of the group were a...
Sisters of Charity exploring ways to work smarter
by John Freund, CM | Nov 7, 2017 | News, Systemic change
The Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland are promoting ways to work smarter in a novel and exciting partnership introduced last spring: "The Innovation Mission: Fighting Poverty with Big Ideas." [inlinetweet prefix="" tweeter="" suffix=""]Five Cleveland-area...
Collaboration at the Heart of the Vincentian Family in Ireland
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 6, 2017 | News
As part of our celebrations for the 400th Anniversary of the birth of the Vincentian Charism, the leaders of the eight different branches of the Family came together yesterday to explore the possibility of forming a Vincentian Family Group in Ireland. Fr. Joe...