by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 7, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Georgianna Torres Reyes recounts an encounter in the Chapel at Rue de sèvres in this simple video. #GiorgiannaisVincent How have you been changed by your encounters with people who have been marginalized? How has your personal history helped or hindered your...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 7, 2016 | Formation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Just do it. You know it as Nike’s® motto. It’s the phrase that Society of St. Vincent de Paul member Nick Volk has made his mantra, and his advice to any prospective or current volunteer. Volk has little patience for people who say they’d like to volunteer...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 7, 2016 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N., Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Guillermo Campuzano, CM, the Congregation of the Mission’s representative to the United Nations, writes… The Vincentian Family at the United Nations is part of a coalition of NGOs called the Working Group on Mining. This coalition prepared, after much...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 6, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
About her vocation to prayer, Andrea Pinnavaia writes from St. Johns… The deeper I delve into my vocation as a Vincentian, the more I am drawn into caring for the poor through prayer. People who are truly people of prayer will be inspired to serve and be drawn...
by Pat Griffin, CM | Apr 6, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
“The Journey” On this past Sunday, April 3, eighteen of our St. John’s University students completed the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) program. I confess to be touched and honored to have been there for this last step. I had been there for the...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 6, 2016 | Announcements, News
The new french language edition of the .famvin network at famvin.org/francais and its news site, famvin.org/fr are active, thanks to the .famvin team! Due to the excellent work of Father Claude Lautissier, C.M., we have a firm foundation upon which to build. We will...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 6, 2016 | Systemic change
Will donating to a food bank alleviate hunger pangs? Absolutely. But it can never eradicate hunger itself. Charity gives, but justice changes. It’s time to place the latter above the former. Glen Pearson, Director of the London Food Bank and former Member of...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Apr 5, 2016 | Social, Social Media, Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative
Throughout the Vincentian world, laudable projects go unfunded or underfunded. It’s not because of the lack of resources available. It’s often because of the failure to provide people with the opportunities to give “to their heart’s...
by Ross Dizon | Apr 5, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
Jesus alone clothes the naked and fills those who are empty by sharing with them his mission to clothe the naked and fill those who hunger and thirst for justice and mercy. Peter, who is fishing naked—do those who have fishing as their occupation work naked...
by Elizabeth Astridge | Apr 5, 2016 | News
The Junior Ladies of Charity from St. John’s Preparatory School sponsored a Human Trafficking Awareness Project for their school community. The Junior Ladies chose to coincide with the United Nations 60th Commission on the Status of Women the United Nations Missions,...
