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…people in the pews are looking for a significant spiritual message on Sundays and a community they’ll feel at home in.
Articles for parish
Celebrating St. Vincent in your parish
The Society of St. Vincent dePaul suggests these way to celebrate the Feast of St. Vincent in your parish on September 27. Others may find inspiration for their own parochial celebrations.
What is “The Amazing Parish”
The Amazing Parish – A parish is probably the most important organization in society — it is where most people come to know Christ and his Church. That is why every parish must strive to be amazing.
New Evangelization and the parish – Vincentian perspectives
Some thoughts from the article Vincentian “Parishes and the New Evangelization” …. A truly evangelizing parish
Children in church
Something that deserves wider circulation about children in church… “A parishioner gave me the following intro from parish they had visited. It is called “Celebrating Children at our Parish”
Fostering Vincentian Identity in parish work
Fostering a Vincentian Identity in Parish work. The following presentation by Fr. Tony Kuzia, CM and Marian O'Brien, MTh addresses the issues raised by changes in parish life in the last 50 years. This presentation offers their insights and practical suggestions....
Superior General washes dishes
Vincentian Superior General washing dishes for the Daughters of Charity in Macon Georgia on the eve of Holy Thursday. As noted in an earlier post he is spending Holy Week with them and visiting their ministries in an hispanic parish.
Pastors bridging the NCR/Wanderer divide
"I believe that every Catholic, conservative or liberal, is united in those ordinary things of parish ministry. That is what I want to communicate in this Parish Diary." Finding what unites the church beyond our disagreements . In a new column in the NCR "Parish...
Parish as Evangelizing community
Your Parish As The Light Of Christ Online Catholic Tech Talk writes ... “Come and see.” says so much in regards to the goal of evangelizing doesn’t it? Come and see. Not “convince”, but just come and see because we know you’ll be amazed. "It’s amazing and speaks...
Basic reading – Understanding the Church and Money
In an exceptionally revealing fashion John Allen moves beyond myths and provides facts and context of the Church and Money as well as the religious state of the world today. What is the financial footprint of the Church in the USA? How much money do the Bishops...
Gathering Young People on the Altiplano Bolivia
Gathering youth to form the next generation is a universal issue for the Vincentian Family. Aidan Rooney and Diego Plá write from the parish of San Pedro in Mocomoco Bolivia, of a successful first gathering of rural young people. Hopefully, some of them will become...
St. Vincent’s Church in Civil War history
“The Unionists would all go to hell, and the secessionists to heaven.” That was the message Catherine Bockman heard when she attended Mass on May 27, 1862, at St. Vincent’s, near the French market in St. Louis’s Soulard neighborhood. She had come to pray for the...