Amid the conical hats, demands for hot tea and general hullabaloo of New Year’s Eve was a gripping mini-documentary...
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January: a USA season of protests #IamVincent
January brings a new year, and renewed attention to continuing social issues in the United States: Abortion, Women's...
A Giving Tuesday Morning #IamVincent
It was Giving Tuesday. While most college students were sound asleep Tuesday morning, Justin Crawford woke up early to...
Kennedy Love-Green Loves the World #IamVincent
When she was accepted to the highly competitive Ozanam Scholars Program at St. John’s University, Kennedy Love-Green ’17CPS felt she was answering a calling. “I was drawn to St. John’s by God,” Kennedy said. Ozanam Scholars examine and seek solutions to real-world...
Want to Help the Poor? Do Something Practical! @SVDPWNY
Do something practical. That's what Vincent would say. Every year in the USA, people struggle to manage the scarce resources they have, while still being good citizens. Saying #IamVincent means helping people do the good things they want and need to do. It's a...
The “Good Works Team” @SJUmission #IamVincent
On Tuesday, February 7, St. John’s redshirt senior Sandra Udobi was named to the 2017 Allstate Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Good Works Team®. The team honors college basketball student-athletes who have shown dedication to bettering the lives of...
Shedding Light on the Relationship of Charity and Justice
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 mean? Let's shed a...
Ozanam Scholar Blends Passion for the Arts with Commitment to Social Justice
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...
“I Protest Because Walls Only Serve to Separate and Divide Us” Activists Saying #IamVincent
See. Judge. Act. We often think of this as analysis for project planning. But activism stems from this as well. A new generation of Vincentians in the United States have heard the call of the Gospel: "I was a stranger and you welcomed me!" In response to the recent...
1.5-minute Podcast #IamVincent = imitate Vincent?
To imitate the saints. A laudable goal? Listen, download for later, or read on... Fr. John Guy Winfrey wrote, Oscar Wilde once said, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” It is certainly a common place response. I recall...
I Love People Like Alexis Fuentes #IamVincent
In January of last year, I met with a young woman in a cafe in northern New Jersey. She is Alexis Fuentes, a former Missionary Cenacle Volunteer, and I spoke with her about her connection to the Vincentian Family and a bit of her life as she was living it. She's a...
Sisters of Charity Federation – Welcoming the Stranger Among Us
Each month, the Sisters of Charity Federation will be posting images from Charity Federation archives that demonstrate how these congregations "Welcome the Stranger Among Us," the theme of the 400th anniversary of Vincentian charism. This first month, the photograph...
