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A 5-day Vincentian Retreat (PDF)
Sister Mª Jesús, DC, shares her missionary experience in Senegal, where she lives among the poorest people with simplicity, closeness and dedication, responding to their needs in health, education and inclusion. Her testimony reflects how the Vincentian charism is incarnated in everyday life.
Fr. Mavric invites every member of the Vincentian Family to take one very concrete step; that is, every member is to bring one new candidate to one of the branches of the Vincentian Family.
To be a missionary is to leave one’s proper world and one’s secure place in the world in order to enter the world of the other; it is to leave one’s place in order to enter the place of the poor and to accompany the poor with the gospel.
The first Vincentian priests in the U.S. stood with immigrants dodging the rocks thrown by jeering Know Nothings who opposed them.
Do you know the address of the Facebook page that has been “liked” by 2.9 million people?
Pew Research is at it again. About a quarter of U.S. adults (27%) now say they think of themselves as spiritual but not religious, up 8 percentage points in five years… What does this mean to communities and groups that have been sent to evangelize the poor?...
Catholics often struggle to explain doctrines to their friends (Catholic by birth and/or non-Catholic). We often think “everyone knows.” We have assumptions. John Kane, in his Denver Post commentary “Holy day highlights Catholic “assumptions” about...
It may come as a surprise to some, but Madame de Gondi had to push Vincent a little. Calling Vincentians of Wherever! The Vincentian Family lives most of its life in a parish. And we need parishes equipped for the “new” evangelization. We need Vincentian...
It’s a question I often get asked. I’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I read… a lot! Here’s the opening of an article in the “Leader Essentials” section of the web site of the American Association of...
Evangelization takes planning. Planning takes research. Research means reading a lot of current marketing articles. Often, when planning our evangelization initiatives we think of using social media. But we don’t make a social media plan. What is this plan? A...
“A poor soul cried, and the Lord has heard her” These words from the Bible bring hope. Every person is a poor soul before God. And if poor souls unite in a prayer, the Lord visits them, comes to them and is present among them. The Word of God inspires us,...
To evangelize doesn’t mean only reading from the Bible. Social media trends ought to concern the “professional evangelizer. To all of you who manage webs, Facebook pages, twitter accounts…whatever… this is for you ! As of January 2015, 80% of...
