by John Freund, CM | Jul 4, 2015 | News
It’s a cold Thursday night on June 18 2015. We are out on Gwen Street, in Sandton, Johannesburg, where more than 20 chief executives have left their cushy beds and warm homes for a cause – the 702 CEO sleepout. The 702 Sun International CEO SleepOut invites...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jul 3, 2015 | Daughters of Charity, Formation, Reflections
“I think daily prayer is what inspires our day–keeps us going, gets us back on track when we’re a bit off,” says Daughter of Charity Julie Kubasak. “Oh, sure, there are times in life when we may be feeling like we are just “putting time...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 2, 2015 | Formation
Vocation Vacation By S. Janet Gildea – Summertime … and the livin’ is easy … fish are jumpin’… and the cotton is high …” So begins the latest issue of E-Voc, the electronic newsletter from the Vocation Team of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati for single...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 2, 2015 | Daughters of Charity, Formation
Remembering those who are poor: …looking at “Laudato Si” through the eyes of a Daughter of Charity Reflections from the international site of the Daughters of Charity… Pope Francis’ recently issued encyclical contains much for a Daughter of Charity and those who...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 2, 2015 | Formation, News
July 4: Feast of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati again and again made the choice to devote his life to the poor and indigent despite his aristocratic upbringing. In 1918 Pier Giorgio joined the Saint Vincent de Paul Society. By that time, he...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 1, 2015 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Marian Youth
English Anthem of the JMV Assembly released on YouTube. Vincentian Marian Youth Yasmine CAJUSTE VMY International President writes “Evangelized, we evangelize!” With this theme we journey as an Association toward the IV General Assembly of the VMY which will...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 1, 2015 | News
Father Gregory Gay forwarded this description from Joseph Fitzgerald, CM about how the new encyclical of Pope Francis relates to the work of the Vincentians in Panama with indigenous people. ( Published in La Estrella de Panama, Saturday, June 27, 2015) “The...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jul 1, 2015 | News, Social, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Using the latest in technology, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in the Philippines premiered their new web site at http://ssvp.ph. We have a growing list of Vincentian Family sites. If yours isn’t listed, let us know by commenting. Or, if you’re...
by Ross Dizon | Jun 30, 2015 | Formation, Reflections
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), July 5, 2015 – Ez 2, 2-5; 2 Cor 12, 7-10; Mk 6, 1-6 When I am weak, then I am strong (2 Cor 12, 10) Jesus came to his own people, but they did not accept him. Is he not a stranger to us who claim to be his own? God reveals to...
