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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life (Jn 6, 54)
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), June 9, 2013 – 1 Kgs 17, 17-24; Gal 1, 11-19; Lk 7, 11-17 A conference of some 4, 911 words, given by St. Vincent de Paul, is about chapter II, article 12, of the Common Rules of the C.M. (Coste XII, 260-276). Its topic is charity...
SVDP helping tornado victims
To help restore their lives after a local disaster, individuals and families count on the Domestic Disaster Fund from the National COuncil of the U.S. Society of St. VIncent de Paul. To help survivors of the Oklahoma tornadoes, click here, check "Domestic...
Nazareth Sisters gather in General Assembly
Hundreds of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth  from all over the world are at Nazareth, Kentucky this week and next for the Congregation's General Assembly. In her opening remarks Sister Mary Elizabeth, President, said, "The very circumstances in which this General...
Changing habits – Daughters of Charity
Daughters of Charity Provincial Archives announces that  for next week they will begin a series of daily posts answering the following questions about their habit the origins of the Sisters' traditional attire, how the look of the cornette changed over time, why it...
Daughters of Charity – Sacred Heart
The international website of the Daughters of Charity celebrates the Sacred Heart this month. (The image of Louise's devotion to the Sacred Heart is taken from an altar piece in a Vincentian Parish in Bratislava courtesy of the Vincentian Image Archive at dePaul.)...
Vincent – Life from both sides
"Vincent dePaul - Patron and Client" - The website of the Australian Vincentians has a link to a study by Guy Hartcher CM. "To understand M. Vincent de Paul as evangeliser and worker for the poor we must understand the socio-political world in which he lived. He was...
Pope: Sad Christians can’t transmit the Gospel
During his daily Mass at the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta, the Pope invited Christians to embrace happiness and to not live life with a 'funeral face.' The Pope explained that the Holy Spirit brings Christians a special joy that should lead them to praise God. He echoes...
Garbage dump through the eyes of Garbage Pickers
Fast Company, a business magazine, offer these thoughts about Waste Land, an Oscar nominated documentary about an art world superstar and garbage pickers in one of the largest dumps in the world, that will change the way you think about chucking trash. (Stories about...
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
In the midst of crisis The economic crisis is going to be long and difficult. We should not fool ourselves. We will not need to look elsewhere. In our more or less immediate surroundings, we will be running into families forced to live on charity, persons...
Gold Medal to Daughters of Charity
The international site of the Daughters of Charity writes of a Gold Medal awarded to the Daughters of Charity in Guadalajara, Spain for their two centuries of social work. The Gold Medal of the Province of Guadalajara was given to the Daughters of Charity of Saint...