Year of Vincentian Collaboration: Informal Evaluation Survey

by Margaret O'Dwyer | May 30, 2016 | Year of Vincentian Collaboration

As we conclude the Vincentian Family Year of Collaboration, the Vincentian Family Collaboration Commission (VFCC) invites you to give us some feedback. Your input will assist the VFCC to decide how best to share information among the Vincentian Family members and will...

Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (3)

by Javier F. Chento | May 16, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

3. Vincentian cooperation in the administration of goods … In the society and in the streets, there is this implicit or explicit idea that the Church and its religious congregations and institutions are more concerned about maintaining and managing theirs assets...

Vincentian Family: Lebanon

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 13, 2016 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

Beginnings August 21, 2013 – Convened by Father Ziad HADDAD CM, Visitor of the Congregation of the Mission in the Middle East, the leaders of the various branches of the Vincentian Family in Lebanon had their first meeting as one Vincentian Family. The meeting took...

Fr. Gregory Gay, C.M.: Message for Pentecost and #famvin400

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 12, 2016 | Announcements, News, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

The Vincentian Family Office shares this video message for Pentecost as we celebrate the year of collaboration and as we prepare for our anniversary as a Vincentian...

Open reflections in the Year of Vincentian Collaboration (2)

by Javier F. Chento | May 9, 2016 | Formation, Reflections, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

2. What it means to be a member of the Family Basing myself on Fr. Eli’s clear ideas, I dare expand the horizon of what, in my humble opinion, could encompass relationships among the members of the Family in this year of Vincentian Collaboration, a year that could...

Vincentian Family Leaders Reflections on Collaboration: Responses to Fr. Gregory Gay, C.M.’s Letter of January 2015

by Aidan R. Rooney, C.M. | May 9, 2016 | Formation, News, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration

St. Vincent de Paul told us “We should assist the poor in every way and do it both by ourselves and by enlisting the help of others…. to do this is to preach the gospel by words and work” (CCD 12: Conf. #195). The Vincentian family was invited to focus 2015 as the...