In a recent article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, collaboration was on the agenda again. This time, for a...
Formation: collaboration
Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (8)
8. ...with feet firmly on the ground… from time to time... I am aware that the statements or hypotheses that I have...
Vincentian Collaboration – An Outside Perspective
We share with you the Keynote Address of our Vincentian brother, John Darley, at the international Vincentian Family...
Connect and Learn: Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul
The Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul was founded in Ukraine (in the Byzantine rite) by Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky on June 8, 1926 as eastern branch of the Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent, originated in Deinze, Belgium in...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Satu-Mare
They were founded 1842 by Bishop John Ham (1781-1804) in Satu-Mare (Szatmar, then Austria-Hungary, now Romania) for diverse apostolic and charitable services because of his concern for the poor, the sick, the neglected, and the education of youth. He sent some...
Serve: House of Charity
The House of Charity New Orleans is a collaborative ministry of the Sisters of Charity Federation. The idea was dreamed up by members of the Company of Charity Formation Personnel or CCFP over several years. The idea of coming together to share our common Charism in...
Connect and Learn: Vincentian Conference of Presidents
On March 30, 2011, the three Provincial Councils of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States held a joint meeting in which the Superior General was encouraged to convene a gathering of the Congregation's three U.S. Universities in order to foster a...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of the Eucharist
Founded in 1889 in Greece at Thessalonica (now Salonika) by Reverend Joseph Alloatti, C.M., (1857-1933), and Sister Marianna Pucci, D.C., (1848-1918) with the purpose of promoting Eucharistic devotion in Macedonia and Bulgaria, especially by religious education of...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy
While attending the first Provincial Council of Baltimore in the fall of 1829, Bishop John England of Charleston, SC met four women of that city: sisters Mary and Honora O’Gorman, their niece, Teresa Barry (aged 15), natives of Ireland and Mary Elizabeth Burke, who...
Connect and Learn: Monastery of the Assumption (Monastero Uspenskij)
It was founded in 1957 in Rome, Italy, by Sister Catherine Morosoff, D.C., (b. 1910) under the direction of Pope Pius XII at the recommendation of Cardinal Eugene Tisserant, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Eastern Churches, in order to start a monastery...
Serve: South Sudan
Prior to its independence in July 2011 from the old Sudan, South Sudan has known nothing but war and conflict. The devastation that engulfed this part of Africa for more than 20 years included destroyed infrastructure, the highest rate of illiteracy in the world,...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish
Historically, the Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish began their life with the Sisters of Charity of Halifax and can trace their roots in the same traditions. The Sisters of St. Martha were formally established as a religious congregation in 1900 after a providential...
