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Vincentian Encyclopedia Adds New Feature
The Vincentian Encyclopedia has added a new feature that automatically updates the main page (towards the bottom) with Vincentian events that took place on the current date in history.At the lower right of this new section there is a link to the Archives of these...
Current Issue of NUNTIA of the Congregation of the Mission Online
The combined issues of NUNTIA for the months of May through August are now available online.They were delayed due to the serious illness of Fr. Alfredo Becerra. We wish him well now that he is back on the job. NUNTIA - May-August 2006
St.John Chrysostom on the Poor
He writes... What is the use of loading Christ’s table with gold cups while he himself is starving? Feed the hungry and then if you have any money left over, spend it on the altar table. Will you make a cup of gold and without a cup of water?(H)ere's a translation of...
September 14 – Anniversary of Canonization of Mother Seton
September 14 marks the 31th anniversary of the canonization of Mother Seton in 1975.For further information click on the link for a Google search
Vincentian Center at SJU Co-Sponsors Dialogue at United Nations
The Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See Mission to the United Nations, along with St. John’s University’s Vincentian Center for Church and Society and the Path to Peace Foundation, will host a side event on September 13 at the United Nations headquarters. This...
Emmitsburg Province of Daughters of Charity Adopts Corporate Stance on Water
The Daughters of Charity of the Emmitsburg Province have adopted a corporate stance on the issue of the privatization of water."After thorough study of the reasons for and against the use of bottled water and in solidarity with poor people throughout the world who...
Spiritual Practices for the Anniversary of 9/11
A website devoted to spirituality in practice has put together a special feature for the fifth anniversary of 9/11. It drawn from some of the Living Spiritual Teachers who have appeared on their website.It's a powerful collection, which we commend to you. There are...
Feast of St. John Gabriel Perboyre, CM
Pope John Paul II declared Fr. John Gabriel Perboyre a saint on June 2, 1996 and we celebrate his feast day on September 11.FOr more information see this earlier post on famvin.
SVDP Celebrates 100 Years in South Bend, Indiana
It’s a group definitely leaving a legacy in South Bend. Thursday, the St. Vincent De Paul Society hosted it's first ever Legacy Luncheon. The event, on the Notre Dame campus, celebrated the society's 100 years of helping the community. Since 1904, the volunteer group...
More Than 200 Ladies of Charity Meet in Buffalo
Over 200 Ladies of Charity from across the United States shuffled off to Buffalo for their Sixth Annual National Assembly.The theme of this gathering WOMEN OF TOIL AND TRIUMPH, says much about the spirit of their membership who are so passionate in their care of the...
