We are people with a mission…to do what Jesus did. Pople who use the skills of their profession in frontline “field hospitals” or mobilize those who are committed to “seeking long-term solutions.”
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A Vincentian View: Yearning for Home (Joseph and Psalm 137)
The Babylonians destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem in 587 BC and took most of the people of Israel into captivity—moving them from their ancestral home to foreign lands. Psalm 137 engages the feelings of those displaced persons.
A Vincentian View: Joseph and Psalm 19 (Pleasure in Law)
Psalm 19 points in a similar direction and enables us to continue to reflect on Joseph as a just man in relation to the law of his people.
Vincentian Family Collaboration Commission meeting in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
VFCC Meeting Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 11- 14 Dec. 2014 The Vincentian Family Collaboration Commission held its regular winter meeting in Rio de Janeiro
Depaul UK wins £1.6M grant for homeless youth
Depaul UK has won the Fair Chance Fund grant to support homeless and disadvantaged young people into housing, education and work.
Vincentian Family Haiti Commission meets in Phildelphia
The Commission of the Vincentian Family Haiti Initiative met at St. Vincent’s Seminary in Philadelphia earlier this month as they closed the fiscal year and marked the end of its first three- year strategic plan.
New online “Vincentian Leadership Program” launched in Australia
The program launched on Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 is significant for several reasons. First, the offering of a leadership program within the Vincentian tradition and in partnership with a member of the Vincentian family based on the other side of the world, and secondly, the program was being launched in the year that the Society is marking 160 years of leadership and service in Australia.
Haiti Initiative Seeks Board Members with Business Knowledge
Haiti Initiative Seeks Board Members with Business Knowledge – The Initiative would like to expand its Board of Directors by asking people with business experience to help evaluate such business opportunities and operations.
Vocation Awareness Week addresses one kind of shortage
Vocation Awareness Week addresses a shortage of one particular kind of vocation. Everyone has a vocation. St. Paul puts it beautifully with his image of the Body of Christ and the many vocations within the kingdom of God. However, there is a real shortage of vocations to the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life .
East Coast Vincentian Family Collaborators meet
In a tradition that antedates the national meetings of Vincentian Family Collaborators East Coast Vincentian Family Collaborators met October 12 in Mother Boniface Spirituality Center, Philadelphia. One of the long time attendees at these meeting, Lucy Saunders, past...
Vincentian Family Branches pamphlet
In 1617 Vincent dePaul established the Confraternities of Charity, the first of the many foundations that would later become known as the Vincentian Family. This downloadable trifold pamphlet provides thumbnails sketches of some of these branches.
Vincentian Family in People’s Climate Change March
Sr. Julie Cutter, DC writes of the Vincentian Family participation in the People’s Climate Change March in NYC which drew literally hundreds of thousands.
