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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Thanksgiving in the Vincentian Family
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."--Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) As the United States celebrates thanksgiving, over the next few weeks the Vincentian Family has many feasts to celebrate and much to be thankful for....
SVDP Australia garners 9 of top 10 Google results
Talk about making effective use of the media. A quick search of Google for the words Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal revealed 9 of the first 10 were from the Society's appeals in Australia. The other one was from the Salvation Army in the UK. The second result below...
Vincentian Family marks second year of merger
On Saturday, November 13, SCNs commemorated the two year anniversary of the merger between the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and the Vincentian Sisters of Charity. The service was created using the results of a recent survey completed by the Congregation. The...
TV report of PROJECT DREAM in Africa
Project Dream, a collaborative project involving branches of the Vincentian Family especially the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity, recently received video coverage in RomeReports. See also Famvin coverage .
Advent letter of Superior General
Fr. Gregory Gay, CM wrotes, in his Advent letter, "I entitle my reflection this year, Christmas: A Story of Living Without Frontiers." ... "The images of darkness and light, night and day, despair and hope, death and life, hell and heaven are images that often come...
Follow international SVDP on Twitter
" we open our official accounts of (International SVDP) on Twitter, they are in the first instance, in English and Spanish. This program allows users to send and read micro-text entries with a maximum length of 140 characters known as "tweets ". Sending these messages...
Questioning micro-loan practices (India) – no bearing on Zafen
Media reports questioning micro-financing efforts in India have no relationship to Zafen. For those who are interested in the Haitian / Zafèn perspective on this issue, very seldom (and in the case of Zafèn, never) are microloans designed to be given (as mentioned in...
Sr. Lila Cochla, D.C. writes from Haiti
Asking our prayers she writes, "In the Alma Mater Hospital, in the north of the country, we had five deaths among our patients yesterday [November 9] and two more today [November 10]. About 60 people are saved daily thanks to the Daughters of Charity. Actually, for...
Photo gallery of DC ministries in the Philippines
The Daughters of Charity in the Philippines describe their mission "We Continue serving and journeying with persons who are poor in". Visit the photo gallery of their ministries. The video galleryhas an interesting clip telling the story "They Have Jesus: The Stories...
Junior Ladies of Charity lend a Helping Hand in New Orleans
The Junior Ladies of Charity from St. Vincent/Guardian Angel, St. Louis, just returned from a trip to New Orleans where they helped two families refurbish their homes. The girls scraped and painted two houses and added the finishing touches that made the houses home...
