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SSVP in Expansion: Cyprus is the 154th Territory that is Joined into our Great Charity Network
The Council General International (CGI) of the SSVP has the immense joy to announce to the worldwide Vincentian community that two Conferences have just been founded in Cyprus. Now, with the entry of Cyprus, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is located in 154...![VMY Albania-Kosovo Continues to Respond “VMY, Here I Am!”](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811140b52a229a0199a0b5b0f77e425d131_XL-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
VMY Albania-Kosovo Continues to Respond “VMY, Here I Am!”
“Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it” Lk 11,28 From the 28th to the 30th September, the national meeting of the VMY was held in a village in Shkodra called Grude e Re, at the oratory of the Vincentian priests. Many members of local VMY groups...![Fr. Thomas Judge, C.M. and the Missionary Cenacle Family](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/missionary-cenacle-judge-featured-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Fr. Thomas Judge, C.M. and the Missionary Cenacle Family
Learn about the origins of the Cenacle Family, and how systemic change was and is evident in their ministries.
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What Happens to Thanks after Thanksgiving Day?
The forgetfulness of “Thanks” the day after Thanksgiving.
![A Canadian View: Freedom Behind Prison Walls](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/02/a-canadian-view-jim-paddon-featured-1080x675.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
A Canadian View: Freedom Behind Prison Walls
The Province of Ontario Regional Council of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul started the Ozanam education fund several years ago, which provides grants to a candidate sponsored by a member conference. We have helped almost 200 candidates. One unique candidate was...![The Feminization of Poverty](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2016/04/vincentian-family-UN-facebook.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
The Feminization of Poverty
As I read the article by Fr. Memo on the World Day of the Poor, celebrated in our Church this week, I could not help but think sadly of women in poverty. A majority of people who are poor are women. The expression, “The Feminization of Poverty” is used to...![Homeless Projects – Province of Our Lady of the Mission – Daughters of Charity](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2018/11/201811181116-Homeless-3-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Homeless Projects – Province of Our Lady of the Mission – Daughters of Charity
Sister Maria Isabel informed us that: On October 22 we received a letter from our Superioress General about ‘Famvin Alliance with homeless people.’ In our Province, we have two projects with the homeless. The first one is in Asunción, Paraguay, in the Sagrada Familia...![The Kingdom Interpretation](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2016/02/mckenna-tom-reflections-featured-facebook-1.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
The Kingdom Interpretation
The Kingdom Interpretation (Mk 12:44-48) To profess myself a Christian is to profess a desire – and that desire is to follow behind the Lord, Jesus Christ. Perhaps “follow behind” doesn’t quite get to the heart of it. It’s more accurately a “stepping into his...![Thanksgiving with Mary – Celebrating God’s Upside Down World](https://b704496.smushcdn.com/704496/en/files/2017/05/systemic-change-generic-facebook-1080x630.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1)
Thanksgiving with Mary – Celebrating God’s Upside Down World
Mary’s thanksgiving hymn is actually a hymn celebrating God’s “systemic change” of seeing things as God sees things … and an invitation to live it in our lives.
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