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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
President SVDP USA – Call to action!
"National Programs That Serve Those in Need are At Risk" - Joe Flannigan, National President SVDP USA, reminds Vincentians that Congress is in recess until September 7 and their senators and representatives are back home. When they return to Washington, they will...
Early holy card of Rosalie Rendu
Rosalie was Frederic Ozanam's mentor so members of the Vincent dePaul Society as well as Daughters of Charity might be interested in the recent acquisition of an early holy card by the Vincentiana Collection at DePaul University. It depicts her in an incident during...
Labor Day (USA) – more than the end of summer!
For Vincentians Labor Day can and should be a call to justice. Labor Day - "a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. (US Department of Labor)" There is a powerful poignancy about...
Contagious joy! Daughters of Charity “Orchestra”
If two YouTube videos ever captured the contagious joy of the Daughters of Charity and the Vincentian family, it would be these from the close of the Jubilee year in Peru! Pay attention to their faces. They become more fascinating as the video progresses. One of these...
A dream deferred, fulfilled
Sister Eleanor Reunites Immigrant Families - She dreamed of entering the Foreign Service. But in the early 1960s, women weren’t admitted to Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Undeterred, she sought another path. She became a novitiate at the Sisters of Charity...
For the homebound – Free admission to WYD iCat event
You don't need any tickets to attend iCat. Entrance to the event is free. iCat is meant to be a place where we can meet and share ideas about how Catholics can express their faith through social networking. At iCat, you'll hear from a panel of informed speakers and...
What is World Youth Day 2011 about? It’s about identity!
Fundamentally, this World Youth Day is about the hunger for identity in a fragmented world. So writes John Allen in an attempt set WYD '11 against a wider backdrop. He sees it as part of a broader trend of younger people rebelling against a rootless secular world,...
Recent reports and catechesis for Vincentian Youth in Madrid
Recent Posts HAPPINESS FORMULA A FAMILY AT THE SERVICE OF ITS TIME DISCOVERING WHAT WE ARE “TO BE RATHER THAN TO APPEAR” The Vicentian Family fun List of catechetical instruction as found on the JMV website. Catechesis 1 - Prayer, the source of the spiritual life for...
World Youth Day 2011: LIVE on Xt3.com
Xt3 has been webcasting some of the major World Youth Day events live from Madrid! In a matter of hours, on Thursday 18 August 2011, Pope Bededict XVI will be arriving in Madrid. So visit www.xt3.com/wyd to make sure you don’t miss out on all the action. You can also...
Story of the White Tablecloth – Vincent caring with dignity
The "Story of the White Tablecloth", a story which goes back to Vincent de Paul himself, is related on this 4:18 YouTube video clip by Fr John Rybolt CM, Vincentian Scholar in Residence at DePaul University in Chicago IL. The clip was posted on August 15, 2011. Fr...