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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
The Good Life – Eye of the Needle
In her weekly column for the Vincent dePaul Society in Calgary Lynn L'Heureux writes of ... More Than one Way – Living the Good Life - Getting through that needle – Going the Extra Mile More Than One Way – I am sorry this was missed last week and so I add it today. ...
Send a birthday greeting to Fr. Greg Gay
If you would like to send a greeting to Fr. Greg Gay on the occasion of his 60th birthday please click on the following link http://bitly.com/fathergreg. These greetings will be collected and sent to him in the next few days!
Fr. Maloney video – Systemic Change and Vincentian Holiness
Fr. Robert Maloney delivered the keynote address "Systemic Change and our Vincentian Call to Holiness Today" at the recent national meeting of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul held in Madison, WI. Please wait a moment for the video to load. It is well worth the...
Beatification of 14 Congregation of the Mission Martyrs of Spanish Civil War
Beatification of 14 Vincentian Martyrs of Spanish Civil War
60th birthday – Superior General
Fr. Gregory Gay's hometown celebrates his birthday as part of a three part series on their best known, and loved, son. Another Look at the Vincentian Ministry of the Very. Rev. G. Gregory Gay, C.M. Part 2 On the recent Feast of Saint Vincent de Paul, I highlighted the...
SVDP and Bank of America Venture
The National Newsletter of the St. Vincent dePaul Society describes a pioneering collaboration between the SVDP and Bank of America. "Asset-Building Integration Learning Cluster" If your SVdP provides: affordable housing options to low- and moderate-income families;...
DEPAUL USA awarded housing programs
DEPAUL USA AWARDED HOUSING PROGRAMS IN ST. LOUIS The City of St. Louis has awarded Depaul USA operating grants for the Project MORE and Project PLUS programs effective October 1, 2013. These two programs provide scattered site housing and services to 70 formerly...
“Encounter” – Theme of World Communcations Day
"Communication at the service of an authentic culture of encounter" The capacity to communicate is at the heart of what it means to be human. It is in and through our communication that we are able to meet and encounter at a meaningful level other people, express who...
Preventing jihad
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), October 13, 2013 – 2 Kgs 5, 14-17; 2 Tim 2, 8-13; Lk 17, 11-19 I am grateful to him who has strengthened me …, I who am the foremost sinner (1 Tim 1, 12. 15) St. Vincent de Paul says that God makes use even of our sins for...
27 Daughters of Charity Martyrs – Beatified Oct. 13
They all paid with their lives! On October 13, Pope Francis will beatify 27 Daughters of Charity and one of their lay collaborators who were martyred during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). See their names and faces, and read about this period in history when the...