A LETTER TO MY YOUNG FRIENDS IN THE VINCENTIAN FAMILY Dear friends: Two hundred posts ago, I wrote: Just like you, my...
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by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 14, 2017 | Formation, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Vincentian Family
A LETTER TO MY YOUNG FRIENDS IN THE VINCENTIAN FAMILY Dear friends: Two hundred posts ago, I wrote: Just like you, my...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 7, 2017 | Formation, News, Other Branch News
For almost 18 months a group of fantastic Depaul young men and women worked together, alongside Depaul UK’s ‘Your...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Sep 2, 2017 | Formation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Nicholas Volk died peacefully surrounded by his family on August 9. Loving husband of Barbara and father to Rebecca...
by Lynne Bauman (CVV 21) | Nov 20, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
I have heard the story of the Good Samaritan countless times: I remember reading it in my Children’s bible with illustrated pictures, seeing the parable come to life in skits and reenactments during retreats, and hearing homilies on the many messages contained in this...
by Santiago Azcarate, CM | Nov 17, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
To say #IamVincent means to live a life of virtue. Actually, it means to live a life of five essential virtues. The second is Humility: the virtue of nearness. In view of our desire to promote love and respect toward the poor, the Rule of the Society of St. Vincent de...
by Nikki Murillo (CVV '15) | Nov 17, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
They say that patience is a virtue. Is forgiveness one as well? As we sat under the shade of a metal canopy talking to two border patrol agents, the hot Texas sun assaulted our faces. The two border patrol agents who greeted us had last names that were of Latino...
by Santiago Azcarate, CM | Nov 10, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
To say #IamVincent means to live a life of virtue. Actually, it means to live a life of five essential virtues. The first is Simplicity: the virtue of transparency. In listing the virtues that Vincentians have to cultivate in order to follow Vincent de Paul and in...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Nov 10, 2016 | Formation, News
To "take a chance" on someone is profoundly Vincentian. Vincent and Louise did it when they said yes to Marguerite Naseau. Vincentian institutions need to focus on the possibilities within each human person. To do this is to say #IamVincent, and allow the person to...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Nov 3, 2016 | Formation, Reflections
To say #IamVincent means to live a life of virtue. Actually, it means to live a life of five essential virtues. Fr. Santiago Azcarate, CM, Religious Advisor to the Saint Vincent de Paul Society in Spain, has written, Virtue can be seen as the crystallization of good...
by Javier F. Chento | Nov 3, 2016 | News
Juvenal y Ramiro are two young people who belong to the Vincentian pastoral team at Mocomoco (Bolivia) where the Congregation of the Mission carries out its service from an international missionary community. They can also say #IamVincent: their work in education is a...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 27, 2016 | News, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
Young men and women have been walking in the footsteps of Saint Justin de Jacobis, together with native Vincentian priests, brothers and Daughters of Charity in Ethiopia. They are the Vincentian Lay Missionaries of the United States and Ireland. In Bahir Dar, VLM work...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Oct 27, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Social Media
Alienation makes for a different type of stranger. There are unseen wounds. https://youtu.be/fr1NumLiv54 Reflection and challenge: There are people all around us that hide their suffering: from poverty, from...