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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
What did Louise say?
by John Freund, CM | Sep 26, 2012 | Vincentian Family
New Database Spreads the Wisdom of Louise de Marillac What did Louise say? The Vincentian Studies Institute of DePaul University has launched a searchable, interactive Internet database that provides worldwide access to the wisdom of St. Louise de Marillac. It serves...
Depaul International celebrates Vincent around the globe
by John Freund, CM | Sep 26, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Depaul International affiliates draw their inspiration from the life and work of St. Vincent de Paul. This year, the Depaul International affiliates will commemorate St. Vincent’s feast date (September 27th) with a week-long series of service activities, celebrations,...
SVDP – Voice of the Poor
by John Freund, CM | Sep 26, 2012 | Vincentian Family
WHAT IS VOICE OF THE POOR (VOP)? The Phoenix website of the St. Vincent de Paul Society asnwers this way. Voice of the Poor is the advocacy arm of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. As followers of Christ, we are challenged to help create conditions for marginalized...
Where in the world are the Daughters of Charity
by John Freund, CM | Sep 25, 2012 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The international website of the Daughters of Charity offers an interactive map of the world. Click on any portion of the map to see the countries as well as the provinces and houses in which the Daughters of Charity work.
Vincent on keeping historical records…
by John Freund, CM | Sep 25, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Daughters of Charity Provincial Archives Facebook page writes "Long before anyone had even begun to codify archival practices, St. Vincent de Paul laid out what today would be called “best practices” for documenting the history of those who followed him. To a great...
Parish as Evangelizing community
by John Freund, CM | Sep 25, 2012 | Evangelization
Your Parish As The Light Of Christ Online Catholic Tech Talk writes ... “Come and see.” says so much in regards to the goal of evangelizing doesn’t it? Come and see. Not “convince”, but just come and see because we know you’ll be amazed. "It’s amazing and speaks...
Message to the Vincentian Family
by John Freund, CM | Sep 24, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Father Gregory Gay, CM extends a a video invitation to a convocation Vincentian Youth to be held in conjunction with World Youth Day in Rio de Janiero. The gathering will take place in Belo Horizonte from July 19-21. (Those of a “certain age” will remember July 19 as the day on which St. Vincent’s feast was celebrated around the world.)
SVDP CEO Launches Australian Bishops’ Social Justice Statement
by John Freund, CM | Sep 24, 2012 | Vincentian Family
"Long before there was such a thing as Australia there were families who lived here, people who cared for each other and the earth, people for whom the world was a deeply spiritual place, people who loved to tell stories about the things that really mattered to them:...
The new Agora or town square
by John Freund, CM | Sep 24, 2012 | Evangelization, Technology: Issues and Uses
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest have become the equivalent of the town square. "That's where the public conversation is happening now," said David L. Hansen, pastor of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church Prairie Hill in Brenham, Texas. "The place where...
Vincent – he left us no learned treatise…
by John Freund, CM | Sep 23, 2012 | Vincentian Family
Tim Williams of the Australian CMs reminds us of the words of one of Vincent's biographers... “He left us neither a learned treatise nor a body of doctrine, only the little volume of his Rule, a brief synthesis of his theological spirituality. He was content to lay...