by John Freund, CM | Aug 19, 2013 | Vincentian Family
The second term of Mayleen Bernardino, familiarly known as PMay, as SSVP National President officially started July 1, 2013 and will end June 30, 2016. To ensure that the Society‘s leaders are of one mind and one spirit, she called for a National Strategic Planning...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 17, 2013 | Justice and Peace, Society of St. Vincent de Paul
SVDP Voice of the Poor writes… If you saw Christ sitting across your kitchen table, what would you say? Would you ask questions? Would you just listen? One of my favorite movies was “Michael”. In the story, Michael the Archangel, played by John Travolta, has a...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 15, 2013 | Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
Depending upon your perspective 19,000 is a pitifully small or amazingly large number. Whatever, last year 19,000 friends of the poor walked their way to raising $1.8 million from events in 220 locations. That money, used to support local special work, would not be...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 13, 2013 | Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Family
Young people from St William’s Parish, Grovely, will each wear at least one item bought from St Vincent de Paul Society stores to a formal dinner at the end of August. The idea of a Vinnies Vamp Up dinner surfaced at the InsideOut 2013 youth retreat at Camp...
by John Freund, CM | Aug 12, 2013 | Vincentian Family
Michael O’Keeffe (59), a well-known figure in the St. Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) (Correction: Ireland not Australia) both nationally and locally, died in a farm accident on Friday evening. His sudden and tragic death has been met by shock and sadness across the...
