by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Mar 9, 2010 | Congregation of the Mission, Disasters and Responses, Formation, News, Vincentian Family
Students of philosophy and theology of the CM Chile Province –like thousands of young people across the country — have been working with Caritas, in preparing food boxes and other aid destined the areas most affected by earthquake. When managers of Caritas...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 28, 2010 | Congregation of the Mission, Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
We’ve heard from the Daughters of Charity in Tome and Talcahuano. They are well after the shock. In Tome, the tsunami would have reached Marguerite Nasseau School, but we have no report of damage. In Maule a sister of a Daughter of Charity has been rescued alive...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 27, 2010 | Daughters of Charity, Disasters and Responses, News, Vincentian Family
In the wake of the earthquake in HaitÃ, the Vincentian Family and the people with whom they serve and and live are enduring another trial: this time in Chile. We have not heard much, but we have the following news through the C.M. province’s Facebook presence,...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 7, 2010 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
As part of their assembly doings, the official representatives to the Third Assembly have elected a new coordinating council. The new officers are Maria Rosa Mormesso de Castro, Presidenta (Brasil), Claudia Patricia Lugo Moreno (Colombia), MarÃa Jesús Cuena (España),...
by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | Feb 6, 2010 | Vincentian Family, Vincentian Lay Missionaries
The Third General Assembly of los Misioneros Seglares Vicencianos (Vincentian Lay Missionaries) has begun in Bogotá, Colombia. Opening with a Eucharistic celebration which included a procession of flags from the countries represented, the Missionaries were joined by...