Official Website of the Vincentian Family
news
Latest News from the Vincentian Family
formation
Vincentian Formation
reflections
Living a Vincentian Life
featured
Don’t miss this!
featured series
Our featured series
homelessness
Homelessness & 13 Houses
vinFormation
Media Resources for the Vincentian Family
We Are Vincentians
Formation Resources for the Vincentian Family
FAMVIN app
Stay in touch with the FAMVIN app
Vincentian Retreat
A 5-day Vincentian Retreat (PDF)
A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Frederic Ozanam: Hope in the Future…But Working! • A Reflection with Ozanam
I believe in the progress of Christian times. I do not fear the falls and the gaps which may interrupt it: the chilly...
A Truly Christian Life • A Reflection with Ozanam
It is easier to use an uplifting language, to fulfill certain positive precepts and to reject certain pleasures, than...
Charity Knows No Limits • A Reflection with Ozanam
Ozanam says, This [social] order rests on two virtues, justice and charity, Love and charity: are they the same? How do we try to promote justice?
A Patron Saint to Imitate and Invoke • A Reflection with Ozanam
A patron saint is not, in fact, a trivial insignia for a Society, such as a St. Denis or St. Nicholas for an inn. Nor is it an honorable name under which a good impression can be made before the religious world: it is a model that we must strive to live, as he himself...
On Almsgiving (Part 3) • A Reflection with Ozanam
Part three of four on Almsgiving…a reflection on a full article by Ozanam, which is among Frederic’s most outstanding.
On Almsgiving (Part 2) • A Reflection with Ozanam
Part two of four on Almsgiving…a reflection on a full article by Ozanam, which is among Frederic’s most outstanding.
On Almsgiving (Part 1) • A Reflection with Ozanam
Over the next four weeks we are going to reflect on a full article by Ozanam, which is among Frederic’s most outstanding. On Almsgiving, Part 1.
Always on the Side of the Poor • A Reflection with Ozanam
Education is an essential aspect in promoting the poor.
Being a Father: Gift and Responsibility • A Reflection with Ozanam
I'm already a father. I am custodian and guardian of an immortal creature. I long to see her baptism, which will take place tomorrow; then I will follow, one by one, all her steps, I will see the birth of all the graces of her childhood, and when holding her, I will...
Being a Christian at All Times and Places • A Reflection with Ozanam
Are you a Christian “from time to time” (maybe only at the Church, your group, community), or do you live your faith in all fields of your life?
Go to the Peripheries • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
Always take care of the servants as much as of the masters, and of the workers as of the rich: that will be, in the future, the only means of salvation for the Church of France. The curés must set aside their bourgeois parish congregations, little flocks of good sheep...
Let Us Put Our Faith Under the Shelter of Charity • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
At that time, a number of philosophical and heterodox doctrines were stirring around us, and we felt the desire and need to strengthen our faith amid the attacks that came from the various schools of false science. Some of our young friends were materialistic; some...