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Superior General – Future of the Miraculous Medal
In the coming year, I request that the various branches of our Vincentian Family, particularly those with a special devotion to the Miraculous Medal to pray, reflect, and discuss how to promote awareness and further devotion to Our Lady and the pious and charitable works of this wonderful Association.
14 Vincentian Family groups in path of Super Typhoon Hagupit
HAGUPIT Typhoon Hagupit is now a super-typhoon and most predict that it will make land-fall over the very same areas...
Sisters of Charity on 60 Minutes TV
60 Minutes, profiled the work of billionaires with the Sisters of Charity New York in what we now call systemic change. The Robin Hood Foundation has provided significant support for NY Sisters of Charity POTS program. Part of the Solution (POTS) is a program widely...
Mother’s Day: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
View or download VinFormation’s new presentation: How St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Embodied Motherhood.
The Pope and the Vincentian Superior General
The message was sudden and startling. “Sr. Marie Claire asks that you call Sr. Claudia at the Casa Santa Marta immediately”
Living systemic change – new series
How are ordinary people changing the systems that have trapped them? The members of the International Commission to Promote Systemic Change offer a new series of stories illustrating lived insights from around the world. Simple ideas that work. In the first of these...
A pair of 24 year old role models
Enjoy this guest post from Brandon Vogt on the impact of a young man who joined the St Vincent dePaul Society at 17 (cf. Vincentian Encylopedia)... A couple years ago, on my 24th birthday, I decided to spend one year studying two unfamiliar saints: St. Therese of...
Resources for Frederic Ozanam 200th Birthday
VinFormation offers two new presentations on Blessed Frederic. In the first, Frederic Ozanam: Social Justice Vision + Personal Action, we see how Ozanam defended the Truths of the Faith and assisted the poor in post-Revolutionary France, setting the stage for the Catholic Social Thought of today.
Superior General reflects on Pope Francis
A New Pope, with a Vincentian Heart The following is a reflection on the recent election of Pope Francis by Fr. G. Gregory Gay,C.M., Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity: When Pope Francis was announced as our new Pope, I...
Year of Faith: St. Justin de Jacobis
See the new presentation on St. Justin de Jacobis from the Vincentian Year of Faith series. View the presentation online or download it for your own use.
Vincentian Center – Travel Industry and Human Trafficking
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Whose Business Is It? The Travel Industry’s Role in Ending Modern-Day Slavery The Vincentian Center for Church and Society, the Ladies of Charity and the Office of Multicultural Affairs at St. John's University sponsored a day long workshop drawing...
