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DC's Make Thanskgiving Possible for the Poor
For many, there would be no Thanksgiving dinner without the sisters' guiding hands. "If it wasn't for the sisters ... they're miracles -- they are," said Tammy Dailey, 42, of Dunbar Borough, who gets food from the pantry at Rendu Services every month. In 1999, the...
Halifax Sister of Charity Represents 22,000 Members of Canadian Religious Confer
Speaking on behalf of the CRC's 22,000 members, Geernaert, a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (Halifax), stressed that no country can act in isolation regarding the global problem of climate change stressing that cutting greenhouse gas emissions is a spiritual...
SVDP Reflections for First Quarter 2007 Online
Sr. Kieran Kneaves has posted her weekly reflections of use in meetings of the Society during the first quarter of 2007They can be at the SVDPUSA site. This same page has previous quarters in 2006 in both Word and PDF format, English and Spanish.
Srs. of Charity (Halifax) Motherhouse Reconstruction Problems
Elderly Sisters of Charity (Halifax) face winter in partially demolished building. The Sisters of Charity are patient women, but even they have their limits.More than 60 sisters, most in their 80s, had hoped to be in their new Halifax retirement home before the snow...
Pope to Visit House of Mary in Turkey Discovered by Fr. Jung CM
On July 29, 1891, Father M.H. Jung, a Lazarist priest and professor at Smyrna’s Sacred Heart College, found the remains of an ancient house, spring and full immersion baptistery here. He’d come to check the veracity of the mystical visions of Ven. Anne Catherine...
DC Mother General Visits Arkansas
The Daughters of Charity in Arkansas got a rare opportunity to meet their order's superior general from Paris and give her a tour of their ministries in Little Rock and southeast Arkansas. Superior Sister Evelyne Franc and Sister Margaret Barrett, a native of Scotland...
DC Featured on WCBS TV New York
Sr. Madeleine Kavanaugh, DC was featured New Yorker of the Week.A video describes her work with the Mobile Soup Kitchen. Joe Martino of the SVDP is also featured in the video. Link to Video
Service on a Global Scale
St. John’s Students Join Catholic College Peers at United Nations WorkshopEager to learn how to make the world a better place, 20 students from St. John’s University gathered at the United Nations on November 17 with peers from other local Catholic colleges to learn...
Gratefulness Resources for Thanksgiving
Noted spiritual author Br. David Steindl-Rast has a very inspiriting website dedicated to gratefulness."Our international nonprofit organization provides resources for living in the gentle power of gratefulness, which restores courage, reconciles relationships, and...
Resources for Celebrating the Feast of Catherine Laboure
An updated list of resources useful in preparing for the feast. Vincentian Encyclopedia VINCENTIANA articles mentioning Catherine The Story of Saint Catherine Laboure Association of the Miraculous Medal * The Early Life of Saint Catherine Laboure * The Apparitions of...
