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Vincentian Family Leaders Reflections on Collaboration: Responses to Fr. Gregory Gay, C.M.’s Letter of January 2015
St. Vincent de Paul told us “We should assist the poor in every way and do it both by ourselves and by enlisting the...
Vincentian Family in Ecuador: Connect and Learn
News from the Vincentian Family in Ecuador. Please remember to pray for our brothers and sisters. “The future of...
Brazil: a special charitable work exceptionally Vincentian
In the city of Fortaleza, capital of Province of Ceara (northeast of Brazil), the Refuge Saint John Gabriel Perboyre,...
Vincentian Family in India: Connect and Learn!
The Vincentian Family 10th Annual Meeting was held in St Vincent’s Retreat Center, Gopalpur on Sea, on 12th and 13th of March, 2016. There were 43 participants from 9 branches of the Vincentian Family. Bishop Emeritus Thomas Thiruthali, C.M., and Bishop Simon...
Handmaids of Charity (Ancelle della Carità)
The Handmaids of Charity (Ancelle della Carita) were founded in 1840 at Brescia, Italy, by Saint Maria Crocifissa di Rosa (1813-1855, canonized in 1954) for care of the sick, lepers, and elderly. Saint Vincent is considered one of their patrons. Initially the...
Connect and Learn: CONFAVI – Venezuela
ACTIVITIES AND INITIATIVES: The Team or Council of Famvin – Venezuela was formed following the first meeting of the Vincentian Family in July 2001 and since there has been a meeting every three months, and the coordinator changes every 4 years. We have conducted...
Helpers of the Souls in Purgatory (Auxiliatrices)
Founded in 1856 at Paris, France, by Blessed Eugene Smet, (1825-1871, beatified in 1957), (in religion, Mary of Providence), whose community, in its origin, collaborated with the Vincentian priests at rue de Sevres and with the Daughters of Charity at rue de...
Association Louise de Marillac – Connect and Learn
The “Association Louise de Marillac” belongs to the larger “Vincentian Family” and is totally dedicated to the cause of elderly abandoned people. Its members are lay volunteers who devote some of their time to look after these old people, under the supervision of the...
Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity
Rev. Thomas Augustine Judge, CM, founder of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity, was ordained a Vincentian priest in Philadelphia in 1899. On April 11, 1909, at a meeting at St. John the Baptist Parish in Brooklyn, New York, six women responded to his...
Missionary Cenacle Apostolate – MCA
Doctor Margaret Healy was an early associate of Fr. Thomas Judge, CM. She had known him from his early preaching in Brooklyn, New York. Margaret had followed him as a lay apostle and became an effective recruiter of others. As an educator, she came in contact with...
Blessed Trinity Missionary Institute: Connect and Learn
A very gifted member of the Missionary Cenacle Apostolate, Dr. Margaret Healy, following the inspirations of Fr. Thomas Judge, CM, set on the path to create the Blessed Trinity Missionary Institute, a secular institute composed of vowed laity. It was formally...
Congregation of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul (Canada)
The Congregation of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul views its founding as a process of history involving key people guided by a deep spirituality and passion for the poor. Their heritage is rooted in the creativity and spirituality of Vincent de Paul...