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From DePaul University: The Power of History to Build a Better Future
DePaul’s library is home to special collections and archives that give direct accounts of those advocating for change in our world.
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Leaven or Fungus for “Thy Kingdom Come!”?
Leaven is “a pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better.” Fungi are the principal decomposers in ecological systems. When are we leaven … and when are we fungi for the Kingdom?
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Thirteen Houses Project in Curitiba
In January 2021 two families lost their homes and all their belongings and documents in a fire caused by an electrical short circuit.
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Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water
Learning about the SDGs and understanding their significance is an important first step as together, creatively, we search for the most effective ways to advocate for these aspects of social justice.
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A Vincentian View: Joseph in the Eucharistic Prayers
An important maxim in Christian tradition affirms simply lex orandi, lex credendi that can be rendered “The law of praying is the law of believing.”
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August 6 – Transfiguration… or… Disfiguration?
Transfiguration – Disfiguration. We have a choice. Which light will we walk in?
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Perishable, Yet Saving Just the Same
The Word becomes flesh; the imperishable, perishable. And he shares in our humanity so that we may share in his divinity. Jesus says that he is the bread that came from heaven, which makes the Jews grumble. They are sure that he is from the same land as they and as...![Vincentian Prayer Images: What Moved Saint Vincent? V](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2020/05/praying-our-heritage-featured-new-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Vincentian Prayer Images: What Moved Saint Vincent? V
Vincent was “drawn into” the Sending that is always radiating out from God.
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Clear and Expressed Preference for the Apostolate among the Poor
We, the members of Misevi Colombia, are people of different ways of being.
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All CIF Meetings in Paris Cancelled During 2021
For years, the International Center for Vincentian Formation (CIF) has been offering on-site courses that help us in our Vincentian Ongoing Formation at the international level.