by Javier F. Chento | Oct 14, 2016 | Disasters and Responses, News
We have received a report on the devastation of Hurricane Mathew in Haiti, written by Sister Zelinda Caversan, Daughter of Charity and director of the Vincentian School “John Paul II,” in the capital of the country, Port au Prince. According to Sister...
by Javier F. Chento | Oct 14, 2016 | Brothers CMM, News
From October 9-21, 2016, the General Board of Brothers CMM organizes an international meeting with the motto: Accountable Brothers – Good Stewardship in CMM. The meeting is taking place in the CMM Retreat Centre ZIN in Vught (the Netherlands). Goal The participants...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 13, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
How many of us fully understand what a Vincentian is or does? Being a student at Niagara University, I was assumed to have known what the mission of my school is for its student body. After attending NU for three years now, I’ve come to notice that not many...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 13, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
A Vincentian has a deeply rooted social conscience that informs her actions. Vincent had that, too. Vincentian Father Greg Cooney writes: …the call of conscience becomes a call to personal conversion, requiring a re-orientation of convictions and patterns of...
by Catherine Prendergast | Oct 13, 2016 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
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,...
by Mitxel Olabuenaga, C.M. | Oct 12, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
“I ask Our Lord to grant us the grace of considering those matters as they are in God and not as they appear apart from Him; otherwise we might deceive ourselves and act other than He wishes.” (CCD VII, to Phillippe Le Vacher, December 6, 1658). “O...
by Tom McKenna, CM | Oct 12, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Prayer and Management (Luke 6:12-19) In this section of Luke, we find Jesus continuing a ministry that’s spreading out further into the society, and in the process selecting 12 people from the group around him to be his “apostles”, i.e., the sent-out ones. You might...
by John Freund, CM | Oct 12, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Systemic change
“Seeing” calls for “judging.” But judging presupposes a lens! “Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw mud, the other stars!” This quote, variously attributed, seems to express that what one sees depends greatly upon one’s mental model and...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 11, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
As many have noted, it took a while for the news media, especially in the USA and Europe, to note the devastation of the recent Hurricane in the Caribbean, and especially its effect in Haiti. Conscious and unconscious bias are at work. Vincentians need to see this and...
by Ross Dizon | Oct 11, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus guarantees absolutely that God will secure justice for his chosen ones who cry out to him with steadfast faith. We know from Jesus’ example and teaching that God’s chosen ones are the poor. Christ, the Anointed with the Spirit, makes clear that his mission is...