Despite facing a marital separation, eviction, double kidney failure, job loss, and the pandemic, Demishia and her daughter Kira found stability and hope through St. Vincent de Paul’s supportive housing and community services.
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by Shirley Smalley | June 6, 2024 | Formation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
Our vocation calls us to reach out and serve beside other people of good will to help relieve poverty and injustice.
by Tim Williams | June 4, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
by Tim Williams | May 28, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
by .famvin | May 25, 2024 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul | 0 Comments
by Tony Nochim | Jun 15, 2024 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Despite facing a marital separation, eviction, double kidney failure, job loss, and the pandemic, Demishia and her daughter Kira found stability and hope through St. Vincent de Paul’s supportive housing and community services.
by Tim Williams | Jun 11, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org In 1833, President (and Spiritual Advisor) Emmanuel Bailly opened the...
by Shirley Smalley | Jun 6, 2024 | Formation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Our vocation calls us to reach out and serve beside other people of good will to help relieve poverty and injustice.
by Tony Nochim | Apr 8, 2024 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
For the last 40 years, Ozanam Inn has been a place where you can get yourself together. It’s a place of second, third, and fourth chances. In fact, we don’t count.
by Tim Williams | Apr 2, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org “Life,” the old saying goes, “is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” There is a deeper truth captured in this witticism, one that St. Vincent often repeated. It is not that we should make no plans and...
by Tim Williams | Mar 26, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org With the rapid growth of the Society within its first two years, there arose a debate as to whether the first Conference, now grown quite large, ought to split in two. “Do you not think that our charitable society itself...
by Tim Williams | Mar 19, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org Have you ever had a friend with very different interests than your own? Maybe he was a big baseball fan, and you just didn’t follow that sport, or he had a great appreciation for art, but you couldn’t stand museums. How did...
by Tim Williams | Mar 12, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org In Monsieur Vincent, the 1947 movie about our patron’s life, he is asked near the end of his life if there is anything he wished he had done. His reply is simple: “More.” This captures the indefatigable commitment to new...
by Tim Williams | Mar 5, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org To boast about our accomplishments in works of charity brings to mind a routine by the comedian Chris Rock, in which he jokes about people who brag when they do what they are supposed to do. (“I graduated high...
by Tim Williams | Feb 27, 2024 | Formation, Reflections, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This post originally appeared on ssvpusa.org There are thousands of agencies, organizations, and individuals who offer assistance to the poor. In our Conferences we often get to know them and refer neighbors to them when it seems they may be better able to provide for...
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 2, 2023 | News, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
On November 18, twenty new martyrs were beatified in the Cathedral of Seville in a Eucharist presided by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. These individuals were martyred during the religious persecution that took place...
by Famvin Media Resources | Sep 9, 2023 | Formation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
This film was written and Directed by Bruce Dynan, and produced for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory (ACT) State Council, Australia. It was posted online by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA. ...