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Resources from SVDP New South Wales
by John Freund, CM | Sep 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
Among the resources offered... The Vincentian Visitation Guidelines The Vincentian Visitation Guidelines are for members and volunteers who are engaged in visitation. They provide a common framework for offering assistance and aim to encourage good practice in the...
Vincentian Family of Chicago
by John Freund, CM | Sep 21, 2013 | Vincentian Family
The Vincentian Family of Chicago offers a new website with details of its celebration Saturday, September 28 Translating the Vincentian Charism Today how we can translate our founders’ charism in our city of Chicago today what are the essentials on which we all need...
Champion of Protecting Trafficked Persons
by John Freund, CM | Sep 21, 2013 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Personal Advice from a Champion of Protecting Trafficked Persons - Sister Mary Jo Swift, DC Guest Blogger, Sr. Brenda Fritz, DC shares about a Daughter of Charity dear to her who passed away last month. Having lived with Sr. Mary Jo for 2 years I was blessed to learn...
Vincentian talks art, spirituality
by John Freund, CM | Sep 21, 2013 | Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
Muralist Br. Mark elder writes... "How do folkies! It’s a new season and I’m ready to get to it at ‘The Buffalo Bro ½ Hour’! I wento out to the ranch and completed a new mural for Munroe hall here at DePaul. I’m going to bring themes on Visual art, Spiritualty,...
Brothers of Charity awarded 65,000 €
by John Freund, CM | Sep 20, 2013 | Vincentian Family
On September 18, the psychiatric centre of the Brothers of Charity in Bukavu received the triannual Caritas International – Deckers Award because of the remarkable pioneering work in mental health care in Congo’s war-torn South Kivu Province. The psychiatric centre,...
Halifax Sisters – Meeting “Special Needs”
by John Freund, CM | Sep 20, 2013 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
For more than 50 years, Sister Ruth Anne has been passionately helping children with special needs stay at home and in community. Sister Ruth Anne admits her patience must be “God-given” or she couldn’t do the work she is called to do. That patience, her special...
Formation Fridays – The Vincentian Family in North America
by John Freund, CM | Sep 20, 2013 | Formation
The week's suggestion for our new series "Formation Fridays" is a short presentation of the various branches of the Vincentian Family in North America. You just might be surprised at how many branches of the Vincentian family minister in North America. We hope you...
Pope Francis’ major media innovation
by John Freund, CM | Sep 19, 2013 | Pope
What would you say is the major media innovation of Pope Francis? L’Osservatore Romano writes "I believe that the major innovation consists in his ability to make himself understood by people of every origin. " “More than 9,300,000 followers and, thanks to retweets,...
The Pope Francis Interview
by John Freund, CM | Sep 19, 2013 | Pope
So many words! So much spin! All set in motion by a 10,000 word interview with Pope Francis. No doubt the torrent will pick up pace. In places the interview seems to echo the words of another Pope some 50 years ago. “Scrape the barnacles of history off the bottom of...
Vincent and Louise – Croatia to Oceania
by John Freund, CM | Sep 19, 2013 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Formed and upheld and by their spiritual founders St. Vincent de Paul and St Mother Louise de Marillac in spirit, charism and Holy Rules, the Sisters of Charity of Zagreb brought the flame of Vincentian charism first to Croatia and the countries of the southeastern...