by John Freund, CM | May 15, 2011 | Congregation of the Mission, Vincentian Family
“Vincent de Paul – a Priest of Charity at the Service of the Poor”. The article in the Vincentian Encyclopedia focuses on Vincent’s conversion to the poor, and the manner in which he lived out that conversion. The article concludes...
by John Freund, CM | May 15, 2011 | Church
Charity urges us… “The mission of charity is urgent. Benedict XVI states: It is Christ’s charity that drives us on: “caritas Christi urget nos” (2 Corinthians 5:14). The urgency is inscribed not only in things, it is not derived solely from the rapid...
by John Freund, CM | May 15, 2011 | Vincentian Family
For a fascinating example of the development of a project attempting to implement systemic change principles in a a deteriorated area of Philadelphia it is worth the time to view either the Germantown-Powerpoint or Germantown-PDF (easier download) version of how far...
by John Freund, CM | May 13, 2011 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
An English translation of the new Statutes of Vincentian Secular Missionaries have been published on the Spanish language site Somos Vicentianos.
by John Freund, CM | May 13, 2011 | Vincentian Family
The SVDP international website celebrates 10th anniversary of a meeting wiht now Blessed John Paul II. “On February the 14th the Holy Father receives in Rome the then President General of the SSVP, the fellow member José Ramón Díaz-Torremocha together with the...
