Outline for Course on VIncent de Paul

Fr. John Prager, CM. for many years taught a course Vincent for novices in English and Spanish. This is the 1995 edition of his notes.The full text can be found at http://www.famvin.org/cm/founder/charism/P-index.html

 

VINCENTIAN STUDIES COURSE

BOQUERON, CHIRIQUI, PANA

JOHN P. PRAGER, C.M. 1995

 

INTRODUCTION
DEDICATION

Introduction
for the Teacher
Introduction
to the Course

 I. THE HISTORIC VINCENT

A.
THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS
SITUATION OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE

1. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCENE
2. THE DOMESTIC POLTICAL SCENE
3. THE SOCIO-CULTURAL SITUATION
4. THE ECONOMY
5. THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION

 B.
THE LIFE OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL

1. THE BIRTH AND YOUTH
2. SLAVERY
3. THE CONVERSION
4. THE SPIRITUAL MASTERS
a. PIERRE DE BERULLE
b. FRANCIS DE SALES
c. BENEDICT OF CANFELD

 II.
THE MYTHIC VINCENT:SPIRIT AND CHARISM

 A. FOUNDATIONS OF VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY: GOD, THE
WORLD AND THE HUMAN PERSON

 B.
THE VINCENTIAN CHARISM

 C. THE MISSIONARY DIMNSION OF THE CHARISM

 D. THREE INCARNATIONS OF THE CHARISM

1. The Congregation of the Mission
2. The Confraternities of Charity
3.
The Daughters of Charity

A. St. Louise de Marillac
B. The Foundation
C.
The Relationship with the CM

III. THE WORKS AND ACTIVITIES OF ST. VINCENT

1. Popular Missions
2. Service to the Clergy
3. Foreign Missions
4. Italy
5. Ireland, England Scotland
6. Poland
7. North Africa
8. Aid to the War-ravaged Provincess
9. Aid to the Sick/Hospitals
10. The Galley Slaves
11. Education/ Catechesis
12. Orphans & Foundlings
13. The Elderly
14. Jansenism
15. St. Vincent & Politics

 IV. THE CONSTITUTIONS: CODIFYING THE CHARISM

 1. THE
COMMON RULES
2. THE
HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS
3. THE
CONSTITUTIONS: VOCATION
4. THE
CONSTITUTIONS: APOSTOLIC ACTIVITY
5.
THE CONSTITUTIONS: COMMUNITY LIFE
6. THE
CONSTITUTIONS: PRAYER
7.
THE CONSTITUTIONS: THE MEMBERS
8.
THE CONSTITUTIONS: GOVERNMENT

 V. THE EVANGELICAL COUNSELS & THE VINCENTIAN VOWS

1.
HISTORY OF THE VOWS IN THE CM
2. THE
CANONICAL ASPECTS OF THE VINCENTIAN VOW OF POVERTY
3. THE
VOWS & EVANGELICAL COUNSELS FROM A VINCENTIAN PERSPECTIVE

 VI. THE
FIVE VIRTUES

 THE CHARACTERISTIC VIRTUE OF THE CM

 VII. HISTORY OF THE CM & THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY

1. INTRO.
TO THE HISTORY OF THE CM
2. HISTORY
OF THE CM (1625-1789)
3. THE
CRISIS: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
4.
FROM THE 2ND FOUNDATION UNTIL TODAY(1843-)
5. THE
EASTERN PROVINCE
6. THE
MISSION IN PANAMA
7. HISTORY
OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY

VIII. THE
SAINTS & BLESSEDS OF THE VINCENTIAN FAMILY

A. THE SAINTS AND BLESSEDS
B. OTHER
NOTABLE MEMBERS OF THE VINCENTIAN
FAMILY

 IX.
MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

1. ST. VINCENT AND THE SCRIPTURES
2. ST. VINCENT & MARIAN DEVOTION
3. THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL
4. THE GREEN & RED SCAPULARS
5. ST. VINCENT IN ART & CINEMA

 X. ST.
LOUISE DE MARILLAC & THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY:
A BIBLIOGRAPHY

 I. ST. LOUISE DE MARILLAC

A. BIOGRAPHY
B. SPIRITUALITY
C. FRIENDSHIP WITH ST. VINCENT
D. WORKS

 II. THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY

A. GENERAL WORKS
1. VOCATION
2. APOSTOLATE
3. HISTORY

 B. SPIRITUALITY

1. GENERAL WORKS
2. VOWS

C. CONSTITUTIONS

1. GENERAL WORKS
2. THE COMMON RULES
3. COMMUNITY LIFE
4. GOVERNMENT & STRUCTURES

 APPENDICES

 1. THE
VOCATION OF THE CM
2. HISTORY
OF THE CM
3. HISTORY
OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY
4. QUESTIONS
FOR REFLECTION
 
 

MAPS

 I. EUROPE (17th CENTURY)
II. FRANCE (17th CENTURY)
III. FRANCE( PLACES IMPORTANT IN VINCENT’S LIFE)
IV. PARIS (17th CENTURY)
V. THE UNITED STATES(CM PROVINCES)
VI. PANAMA