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Formation: Collaboration Reflections
St. Vincent and St. Louise – Ideal Collaborators?
by John Freund, CM | August 3, 2018 | Formation, Reflections | 0 Comments
Successes, Expectations, Needs, Challenges and Difficulties of Collaboration in Africa
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | February 10, 2018 | Formation, Reflections, Vincentian Family | 2 Comments
Collaboration: From Advantageous Strategy to a Strategic “Must”
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | July 20, 2017 | Formation | 0 Comments
Vincentians United Against Poverty
by Famvin Media Resources | July 9, 2017 | Formation | 0 Comments
Be inspired by this presentation of quotes from St. Vincent de Paul on aspects of collaboration.
Editorial: Collaborating to “Feed” the Vincentian Family
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Jul 4, 2017 | News, Social, Vincentian Family
Two years ago, when famvin.org was a project of the Congregation of the Mission, a trio of Vincentian priests - John...
Collaboration #3: Leadership #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 28, 2017 | Collaboration, Formation
Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity and planning...
Collaboration #2: The People #IamVincent
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 25, 2017 | Collaboration, Formation
Last year (2015-2016) was the Year of Collaboration for the Vincentian Family. With all the activity...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (4)
by Javier F. Chento | May 23, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Reflections
4. On retirement and “early retirement” of family members... The bourgeois society in which we are immersed sneaks through the cracks of our familiar habitat, whether of one kind or another, of one branch or another. Creeping all too frequently into our life, and our...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (3)
by Javier F. Chento | May 16, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
3. Vincentian cooperation in the administration of goods ... In the society and in the streets, there is this implicit or explicit idea that the Church and its religious congregations and institutions are more concerned about maintaining and managing theirs assets...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (2)
by Javier F. Chento | May 9, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
2. What it means to be a member of the Family Basing myself on Fr. Eli’s clear ideas, I dare expand the horizon of what, in my humble opinion, could encompass relationships among the members of the Family in this year of Vincentian Collaboration, a year that could...
Vincentian Family Leaders Reflections on Collaboration: Responses to Fr. Gregory Gay, C.M.’s Letter of January 2015
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 9, 2016 | Formation, News, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
St. Vincent de Paul told us “We should assist the poor in every way and do it both by ourselves and by enlisting the help of others…. to do this is to preach the gospel by words and work” (CCD 12: Conf. #195). The Vincentian family was invited to focus 2015 as the...
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (1)
by Javier F. Chento | May 2, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
1. A timely announcement It was a beautiful and inspiring idea from our Superior General, Fr. Gregory Gay CM, to convene a Year of Vincentian Collaboration. The fact that it coincides with important dates in the Church that are close to each other made the idea even...
Sharing Experience Is Collaboration Too
by Javier F. Chento | Apr 29, 2016 | Collaboration, News
A meeting with extramural (correspondent) students (studying family consulting and catechetics as major) from the Institute of St. Thomas Aquinas and took place in the “God’s Gift” House in Kiev. Volunteers from Vincentian Family, Sisters of Mary of Miraculous Medal,...
Collaboration is… to look forward always
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 28, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
We have just finished our yearly celebration of Jesus Christ’s victory over death and sin. The Easter Triduum is the center of the liturgical life of the Church and the vital core where believers find the be-all and end-all of their existence. Because God the Father...
Collaboration is… to live in permanent resurrection
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 21, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
We are entering the most important liturgical time for the people of God: we celebrate the passion of Jesus Christ, the death that begets life and confirms the commitment of God the Father to His Son Jesus Christ and to all humanity through Him. In celebrating the...
Collaboration is… to dream together
by Javier F. Chento | Mar 14, 2016 | Collaboration, Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Dreaming is not escaping reality. “It is to undermine obvious facts to break their hold on people, to abandon deliberately the paths of obedience, to project oneself into a reality that we daringly think is different” (Myriam Tonus, “Dangereuse l’utopie?” in La Libre...