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Articles from the Famvin News Archive
Does Anyone Care? Homeless in Boston
Homelessness in the Boston, MA area from the perspective of Sister Maureen Lynch who works at Pine Street Inn Her hand trembled as she struggled to sign the scrap of paper on the front desk. Her steps unsteady, she turned to drop it into the bucket. Eyes glazed over...
SVDP Annual Meeting – Atlanta (Sept. 2-7, 2003)
A quick reminder of and request for safe journey to the 2003 Annual Meeting of the SVDP in Atlanta this week.The 89th National SVdP Meeting. Atlanta. September 3-6, 2003. Y’all Come! Spiritual Emphasis, Innovative workshops As much as Vincentian ministry strives to...
Low Wage Jobs
Low-wage reality (as seen by a Democrat in the US) Sunday, August 24, 2003 - AS THE Fully 30 million Americans -- one in four U.S. workers -- earn $8.70 an hour or less, a rate that works out to $18,100 a year, which is the current official poverty level in the United...
Day-by-day in the Life of Vincent and Louise
The Congregation of the Mission English language site has begun publishing a translation of the work of a Spanish confrere who is reseraching the day by day activities of Vincent and Louise.For further information write John Freund When complete (and translated) this...
The cause of canonization for a Vincentian Archbishop opens in Valencia, Spain
The Archbishop of Valencia, Spain, AgustÃn GarcÃa-Gasco, will open this coming September 20, at 12 noon, at the Cathedral of Valencia, the cause of canonization of Archbishop Emilio Lissón Chaves, C.M., who died in the exile in Valencia in 1961. Born in Arequipa,...
Some Thoughts on CM Identity – Joe Loftus, CM
TAIWAN, June 2003: Writing about a particular period of Vincentian history in China (Dancing in Tight Shoes - the Vincentian Vicariates in China, 1840-1911, China Sparks, June 2003, IX, 2, p9), Joseph Loftus CM has this to say in a note at the end of the article -...
$5.00 Minimum wage proposed by Henry Ford 1915
On January 5, 1915 Henry Ford committed himself the following.... "To establish a minimum wage scale of $5 per day. Even the boy who sweeps up the floors will get that much." On this Labor Day 2003 in the USA we can ask "How far have we come?"For the complete...
'Dig and Save'- SVDP Thrift Shop in
This innovative SVDP Thrift Store also has a "Drive-Thru" repository.http://www.svdpmadison.org/dig.html
Resources for the Feast of Fredric Ozanam – Sept. 9 UPDATED
A compilation of resources on this site as well as the wider web useful in preparing for his feast day . Basic Resources Liturgical texts Sr. Kieran Kneaves Reflections for Council Meetings Meditation/Litany for Feast of Frederic Sr. Gwen Tamlyn's Reflections for...
Service to Poor Calls for 'Contemplatives in Action,' Says Pope
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, AUG. 28, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Service to the neediest calls for "contemplatives in action," says John Paul II. The Pope expressed this conviction in a message to the Ursuline Sisters of Mary Immaculate, meeting in general chapter, to address the...
