by Famvin Media Resources | May 1, 2013 | Formation
As we approach Mother’s Day in the United States, VinFormation presents: How St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Embodied Motherhood. (View or download by clicking the link.) She was mother to five children of her own and seven of her husband’s orphaned siblings....
by John Freund, CM | Apr 29, 2013 | Vincentian Family
In a special to FAMVIN and  CMGLOBAL John Maher CM tells of the phone call Fr. Gregory Gay received inviting him to celebrate the Eucharist with Pope Francis. — The message was sudden and startling. “Sr. Marie Claire asks that you call Sr. Claudia at the Casa...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 27, 2013 | Spirituality and Spiritual Practice, Systemic change
How are ordinary  people changing the systems that have trapped them? The members of the International Commission to Promote Systemic Change offer a new series of stories illustrating lived insights from around the world. Simple ideas that work. In the first of these...
by John Freund, CM | Apr 25, 2013 | Vincentian Family
Enjoy this guest post from Brandon Vogt on the impact of a young man who joined  the St Vincent dePaul Society at 17 (cf. Vincentian Encylopedia)… A couple years ago, on my 24th birthday, I decided to spend one year studying two unfamiliar saints: St. Therese of...
by Famvin Media Resources | Apr 20, 2013 | Formation
VinFormation offers two new presentations on Blessed Frederic. In the first, Frederic Ozanam: Social Justice Vision + Personal Action, we see how Ozanam defended the Truths of the Faith and assisted the poor in post-Revolutionary France, setting the stage for the...
