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Present for Blessed Frederic’s 200th birthday
A NEW SVDP WEBSITE! The Society of St. Vincent dePaul offers a gift for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Frederic Ozanam. Even at this stage in development one can see the possibilities. For example an interactive map of where the Society serves. Go to...
To be a Daughter of Charity in Syria in a time of war…
Excerpts from an Interview with a Daughter of Charity returning from Syria You were previously in Northern Syria, and you left there … What was your work there with your sisters? Can you briefly tell us the reasons for your departure? I will give you some...
A Vincentian reflects on doubt
In this guest post written before the Boston Bombing,  Lynn L'Heureux reflects on "Doubts - God’s Infinite Goodness – Living in Christ - Healing gift/Bread of Life" (Lynn  L’Heureux is Special needs co-coordinator & Advisor of the Society of St Vincent de Paul...
Four aspects of Louise’s spitirtuality
The following presentation on Saint Louise as a spiritual woman has been taken form a freshly translated  article of the same title. It focuses on the following four aspects of her spirituality: a woman inspired by the Spirit a woman of prayer and a woman who...
Vincentian Center – Travel Industry and Human Trafficking
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Whose Business Is It? The Travel Industry’s Role in Ending Modern-Day Slavery The Vincentian Center for Church and Society, the Ladies of Charity and the Office of Multicultural Affairs at St. John's University sponsored a day long workshop drawing...
Vinnies (Australia) call for bipartisan commitment
The Australian St Vincent de Paul Society is holding the Australian government to it commitment of cutting homeless numbers in half by the end of the decade. They are calling for a bipartisan commitment in Canberra to the commitment made originally by in 2008 by Kevin...
Digital afterlife? Not what you think!
It is actually a serious question about what happens to your digital data when you die. TechNewsDaily addresses the issue - How Do You Deal with the Data of the Dead? AUSTIN, Texas — You are going to die. Probably not anytime soon, but you will. And when you finally...
Pope – take life as it comes
Pope Francis: Learning to take life as it comes, the good with the bad (Vatican Radio) When things go badly, we should not masquerade them. We should learn to have faith in God, and how to accept what happens in life, the good with the bad, always knowing that Christ...
The language of Francis … and Vincent
According to someone who knows him well,  the Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Francis' actions reveal  five characteristics of Francis -  simplicity, approachability, continuity and fidelity to the Magisterium, tenderness and service. Those who know him closely say...
When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself (Jn 12:32)
Third Sunday of Easter (C), April 14, 2013 - Acts 5:27b-32, 40b-41; Rev 5:11-14; Jn 21:1-19 Many qualify as promising Pope Francis’ elevation. I myself have the fond hope that his gestures of simplicity, humility, poverty and love for the poor will stop dead in their...
