On Thursday, October 4, 2018, there was a meeting in Brussels of the National Council of the Vincentian Family in...
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Is there a Vincentian Influence on the Youth Synod?
Is there a Vincentian Influence on the Youth Synod? The answer is...No.. and, very definitely, Yes! If by influence...
International Day of the Girl Celebrated Today
Girls’ voices are echoing through hallways of UN Headquarters in New York today as the world celebrates “International...
Vincent de Paul and women in ministry
Almost 400 years ago (1617) St. Vincent de Paul pioneered in facilitating and organizing women for ministry. That the International Association of Charities or AIC (1617) has more than 250,000 "volunteers" 52 countries is a tribute not only to his vision but his...
Mary Rose McPhee, DC giant in health and spirituality
Sister Mary Rose McPhee, a towering presence in Austin’s health care and spirituality circles, died Monday in Evansville, Ind., surrounded by the sisters she had gone to live with when she left Central Texas in late 2004. McPhee was 95 and had been in failing health....
A creative relay – Vincentian Love crosses Canada
The Journey Home – A story of Vincentian Love across Canada Let us put our Faith into Acton (National Theme SSVP Canada for 2013-2014) (Lynn L’Heureux Calgary) “I would like to embrace the whole world in a network of Charity” (Blessed Frederic Ozanam) In February...
Doing theology from the Margins?
With Pope Francis urging us to go to the margins have you ever wondered what it is like to "do theology from the margins"? The Philippine Province of the Congregation has a school of theology dedicated to doing just that. St. Vincent School of Theology "An institute...
October Beatification in Bayonne NJ
Sister Miriam Teresa, a Sister of Charity - New Jersey, will be Beatified on October 4th, 2014 in Sacred Heart Basilica in Newark. The Charity Federation website posts notice of a Day of Reflection - “Venerable Sister Miriam Teresa SC: Her Life, Spirituality and...
Pope Francis prays the Way of the Cross
Every year, the pope asks a person or group of people to write the meditations that are read aloud during the nighttime torch-lit Good Friday ceremony, which he presides over. For 2014, Pope Francis picked Italian Archbishop Giancarlo Maria Bregantini of...
Formation Friday – Vincentian Stations
The Stations reflect our service and our journey as Christians who love Christ and seek to serve Him in the poor. This is our mission as Vincentians. This is our mission as Catholics. When we look into the eyes of the poor we see Your suffering Son, Your love and...
Superior General washes dishes
Vincentian Superior General washing dishes for the Daughters of Charity in Macon Georgia on the eve of Holy Thursday. As noted in an earlier post he is spending Holy Week with them and visiting their ministries in an hispanic parish.
Washing the feet of women
Women and men were both participating in the ancient rite long before Pope Francis arrived on the scene. An article in April 2014 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 79, No. 4, page 46) provides the history. In 1955, Pius XII reformed the liturgy to make foot washing part...
