We know Vincent heard the cries of the poor. Can we listen as Vincent did?
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Second Meeting of the Vincentian Indigenous Confraternity
The Vincentian Indigenous Confraternity, during their second virtual meeting, decided to establish a team that would take responsibility for our external communication.
Vincentian Prayer Images: Getting To Know Our Family
What couldn’t we do if we got to know other branches of our Vincentian Family, especially in our local area?
Funeral Prayer for Homeless in Ukraine
"May the angels take your soul, raise it from earth to heaven, may the song of the saved follow it, in the face of the highest God." Today “Volunteer School” (Kyiv) was held in a different format – volunteers, Fathers missionaries, Marian sisters and seminarians...
Paris Agreement on Climate Change and COP 22
Paris Agreement on Climate Change and COP 22 – Conference of Parties to UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) In December 2015, 197 countries promised to keep the world safe from the worst effects of climate change at the COP 21 in Paris. The...
Meeting of the Vincentian Family Leaders in Kenya
On Sunday morning, October 16, leaders of the Vincentian Family in Kenya gathered at the DePaul Center of the Lazarists (CM's) for a meeting with Fr. Joe Agostino, CM, the coordinator of the international Vincentian Family Office (VFO). The session provided us with an...
Vincentian Family Collaborates to Address Root Causes of Poverty
“We should assist the poor in every way and do it both by ourselves and by enlisting the help of others…. To do this is to preach the gospel by words and work.” Vincent de Paul[1] Frederic Ozanam founded the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in collaboration with five...
Joint Vincentian Family Commissions Meeting
On Monday, April 25, members of the Commission for the Promotion of Systemic Change and the Vincentian Family Collaboration Commission met in Bayside, New York. Their purpose was to share with one another the work of their Commissions and to seek ways in which they...
A New Secretary General for the UN and UN Day
A New Leader for the UN: Selection of a new Secretary General on October 13 and UN Day: October 24 We, the Vincentian Family at the UN and our respective NGOs, are a small part of the bigger picture of the continuing work of the United Nations. Currently there are...
Meeting of Vincentian Family Leadership in North America
Twenty one leaders of the Vincentian Family in North America gathered in New Orleans October 14-15 for their annual Leadership meeting. The goals for this gathering of presidents/elected leadership/provincials/directors were to: Continue to develop and deepen...
Vincentian Family in Ukraine: Connecting the Global and the Local Levels
The Vincentian Family in Ukraine Connecting the Global and the Local levels – Advocacy at the UN I was invited last week to visit the works of the Vincentian Family in Ukraine. This was a wonderfully busy week that brought me to experience firsthand the effective...
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. Currently, the...
