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SVDP Announces new Gifts in Kind Program; Date of Annual Mid-year Meeting
The SVDP National site features its new "Gifts in Kind Program" The SVDPUSA 2005 MidYear Meeting will be held on April 13-17 in St. Louis, MO. Gifts In Kind International and its nearly 450 affiliated programs worldwide distribute hundreds of millions worth of newly...
Vincentian Tradition and the Year of the Eucharist
As we begin the Year of the Eucharist some might wish to review the recent article written by Robert Maloney, CM "Love is Creative Even to Infinity — On the Eucharist in the Vincentian Tradition"Vincent's words (Creative Unto Infinity) .... refer to the institution of...
USA SVDP Weekly Reflections Online
The National SVDP web site has posted its weekly reflections for January through March.The following link takes you to a page which allows one to download these reflection in either Word or PDF format, English or Spanish. Dowloads
Peace Message of Br. Roger of Taize
"If some are gripped by worry about the future and find themselves at a standstill, there are also young people all over the world who are inventive and creative. ""A Future of Peace" by Brother Roger, Taizé Community "God has plans for a future of peace for you, not...
Sr. Gwen Tamlyn Contninues Weekly Reflections for SVDP Meetings
Sr. Gwen Tamlyn DC of the Blessed Frederic Institute of Spirituality has once again sent her handy one page reflection guides for use in SVDP meetings.The theme of this series of reflections in tke from the fact that 2005 has been named "Year of the Eucharist" by Pope...
How John Paul II Remade Christmas
ROME, DEC. 23, 2004 (Zenit.org).- How John Paul II Redid Christmas; Archbishop Foley's Yuletide Reflections This is the 21st Christmas that the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Archbishop John Foley, is celebrating in Rome. One of his...
What Christians Should Get Out of Christmas
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 21, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The event of Jesus' birth should prompt Christians to practice charity, says the head of the Vatican dicastery that organizes and manages the Pope's charitable works. ZENIT interviewed Archbishop Paul Cordes, president of the...
CM Installed as President of Adamson University (Philippines)
"Vincentian Education in the Philippines: From Servant University to Education with a Heart" Full coverage complete with inaugural address and extensive photo album can be found on Investiture From the inaugural address... As the Vincentians took over the reins of...
Inaugural Address of Dennis Holtschneider CM – De Paul University
DePaul University began as a solution to a problem. Immigrant populations, largely Catholic and Jewish, could not get into other Chicago colleges because of price and because of admissions quotas. It was abundantly clear to immigrant parents that a college education...
Christmas Greetings From AIC International President Anne Sturm
Dear friends and volunteers of AIC, Â There are only few days left until Christmas, the feast of joy, when we will celebrate the incarnation of Christ. As always the cradle and the Holy Family will be in the heart of our celebrations: Saint Mary, Saint Joseph and the...
