by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 19, 2016 | Social
The world is moving to messaging. We told you about .famvin on Telegram, and not many of you seemed interested 🙁 Many of you use WhatsApp. In a public Q&A session November 2014, Mark Zuckerberg explained: “Messaging is one of the few things that people do more...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 19, 2016 | Disasters and Responses, News
Slowly, information regarding some of the branches of the Vincentian Family affected by recent earthquakes is being received here at .famvin. From the Daughters of Charity: Sr. Ana María Maldonado, Visitatrix of the Daughters of Charity in Ecuador, has sent a...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 19, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus reveals to us the way of love that leads to glory and the new life. Judas leaves to carry out fully his betrayal. It is night, which does not mean that the light no longer shines in the darkness. Divine glory still shines brightly. Jesus speaks of it to his...
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 19, 2016 | News, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
On November 24, 2015, a warm-up center was opened by DePaul Ukraine foundation with the support of administration of the city of Kiev railway station. Talks were going on for about a month. Thanks to God, we were able to open this Room, and now we can help people...
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 18, 2016 | News, Pope
This weekend, Pope Francis visited the refugee camp in Lesbos (Greece). With him were the leaders of the Orthodox Church, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, and Jerome II, Archbishop of Athens. The news has not gone unnoticed in the European media, even if many...
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 18, 2016 | Disasters and Responses, News
As we all know, an earthquake of 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale devastated this Saturday night much of Ecuador’s land, and has caused a still unpredictable tragedy. More than 400 people have died, 2,500+ have been wounded, and a number of people in the country...
by Lynn L'Heureux | Apr 18, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Vincentian Special Bond – Vincentians Moving Forward – Vincentian Spiritual Growth – God Speaks to Us Vincentian Day of Prayer and Fast – Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Vincentian Special Bond – Vincentians are blessings in our troubled world where it seems not...
by Emile Ghali, c.m. | Apr 18, 2016 | News
Fr. Alexis Cerquera Trujillo shares the logo he prepared for the 400 years of the Vincentian charism with us. Explanation of the logo: It is built from a basic figure: the circle … (the world, history, life, etc. …) This circle is formed by different lines...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 18, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
The Handmaids of Charity (Ancelle della Carita) were founded in 1840 at Brescia, Italy, by Saint Maria Crocifissa di Rosa (1813-1855, canonized in 1954) for care of the sick, lepers, and elderly. Saint Vincent is considered one of their patrons. Initially the...
by .famvin | Apr 17, 2016 | Formation
April 16 marked the anniversary of the death of Bishop John Timon, C.M., first bishop of Buffalo, New York and first provincial superior of the American province of the Congregation of the Mission. Throughout the 400-year history of the Vincentian Family, we find so...
