by John Freund, CM | Sep 26, 2011 | Vincentian Family
No Time Like Now- the Life and Times of Frederic Ozanam. This video puts Frederic squarely in the life and times of a country facing massive social change. In doing so it presents a side of Frederic that is perhaps too little appreciated. There is much food for...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 8, 2011 | Vincentian Family
He wrote to his his elder brother, Father Alphonse: “The priests must give up their little bourgeois parishes: their flocks are an elite in the midst of a vast population that they do not know…” and again: “You are not carrying out your true...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 4, 2011 | Vincentian Family
We have big shoes to fill! Sister María Pilar López, DC recently laid out how Vincent, without using the words was well in advance of the Church’s social teaching. Frederic, whose feast we celebrate September 9, influenced the magisterium in the words and...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 7, 2011 | Vincentian Family
Why We Need to Canonize More Lay Saints Ever since the Second Vatican Council spoke of the “universal call to holiness,” there has been a move to recognize more lay men and women as saints, as models of sanctity for lay Catholics. Several contemporary saints have...
by Beth | Jan 29, 2011 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
February 1 marks the anniversary of the Martyrs of Angers, Daughters of Charity ODILE BAUMGARTEN & MARIE-ANNE VAILLOT. For more information visit Vincentian Encyclopedia Article Martyrs of Angers as described in a homily by Fr. Richard Mc Cullen, C.M. February...
