by Erica Dix | Jul 6, 2017 | Formation, Reflections
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once.” -John Green My Vincentian Story begins in a church. As I grew up and learned about Catholicism, I always felt as if there was something missing. When I came to DePaul and learned the story of St....
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 9, 2017 | Formation, Poverty: Analysis and Responses
I’m writing this on Candlemas, a feast of Light. St. Vincent once said, “There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.”[To François du Coudray, In Toul, 17 June 1640] What did he...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 9, 2017 | Justice and Peace, News
Jeremy Ashton ’17C ‘18G came to St. John’s University from Orlando, FL in the fall of 2013 because he was offered a scholarship through the selective Ozanam Scholars Program. “The tuition funding brought me here,” he said, “But the work kept me here.” Though he was...
by Guillermo Campuzano | Dec 1, 2016 | News, Vincentian Family at the U.N.
How Can the Vincentian Family Embrace the Global Utopia, the Agenda of the Common Good? “REDUCE INEQUALITY WITHIN AND AMONG COUNTRIES” (SDG 10) If we, the Vincentian Family, want to meaningfully contribute to the global agenda, we need to embrace the challenge of the...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 23, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
In his book Mister Vincent, J Patrick Murphy quotes Malcolm Gladwell who writes about tipping points – the time when things come together to tilt the scale of life to something new. For Vincent, the tipping point primarily came from two events in 1617, starting...
