On March 14, 2013, almost three years ago, the church experienced a day full of joy and hope: the white smoke...
Formation: Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Enlarge the Space in the Vincentian Tent!
Collaboration in the Vincentian Family by Eli Chaves Dos Santos, C.M. This year’s theme for the Vincentian Family is...
Collaboration is… to know we are needed and also in need of help
If collaboration has a necessary aspect, it is the strong bond of unity that makes us rely on one another. To better...
Connect and Learn: Soeurs de la Toussaint (Strassburg)
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul of Strassburg (Soeurs de la Toussaint) were established 1734 at Saverne, France, by Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan Soubise, prince bishop of Strasbourg (1704-1749) to address the pressing needs of the poor, especially...
Connect and Learn: Sisters of Charity – Halifax
The story of the Canadian foundation of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax begins when four American ladies, black-robed, black-capped, landed in Halifax from the Cunard liner "Cambria" on May 11, 1849. They came from New York City, these first Sisters of Charity, in...
New video on Year of Collaboration
New video on Year of Collaboration provides an outline to what will happen. You can choose from many languages. The Year of Vincentian Collaboration: Let's Get Started Here are some new materials published today on the .famvin network. The Vincentian Family...
YVC2015: Let’s Get Started
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy2SdY_joE
Connect and Learn: Daughters of Divine Love
The Daughters of Divine Love Congregation by the special grace of God, without affiliations to any foreign Congregation is the first veritable indigenous Congregation of Women Religious, the fruit of the labour of the early Missionaries in Nigeria. Founded in Ukpor in...
Serve: Germantown Systemic Change Initiative
The Germantown Systemic Change Initiative (GSCI) is a project aimed at improving the lives of the vulnerable citizens of the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia by building meaningful collaboration among community-based organizations and creating a collective...
” We trivialize our charism…” – Prophetic words – Sr. Gertrude Foley SC
" We trivialize our founders and our charism, if ..." - Prophetic words - Sr. Gertrude Foley SC It was almost 20 years ago at one of the first major gatherings of the Vincentian Family in the US that Sr. Gertrude Foley, SC offered the reflections below. As we begin...
Federation of Sisters of Charity of Strasbourg
After the Second Vatican Council, in 1971 ten German and Austrian communities descended from the Strasbourg foundation became a federation. In 1994 the member communities of the Vincentian Federation (Germany) became affiliated to the large family of Vincent de Paul...
Vincentian Family: Red Educativa Vicentina
There's a new member of the Vincentian Family! When the Company of the Daughters of Charity decided, in 2013, to reconfigure as one Province what were originally four provinces in five countries of South America -- Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay --...
