by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 28, 2015 | Formation, Sisters of Charity, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
The House of Charity New Orleans is a collaborative ministry of the Sisters of Charity Federation. The idea was dreamed up by members of the Company of Charity Formation Personnel or CCFP over several years. The idea of coming together to share our common Charism in...
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 28, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
On March 30, 2011, the three Provincial Councils of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States held a joint meeting in which the Superior General was encouraged to convene a gathering of the Congregation’s three U.S. Universities in order to foster a...
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 21, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Founded in 1889 in Greece at Thessalonica (now Salonika) by Reverend Joseph Alloatti, C.M., (1857-1933), and Sister Marianna Pucci, D.C., (1848-1918) with the purpose of promoting Eucharistic devotion in Macedonia and Bulgaria, especially by religious education of...
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 14, 2015 | Formation, Vincentian Family, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
While attending the first Provincial Council of Baltimore in the fall of 1829, Bishop John England of Charleston, SC met four women of that city: sisters Mary and Honora O’Gorman, their niece, Teresa Barry (aged 15), natives of Ireland and Mary Elizabeth Burke, who...
by Vincentian Family Office | Dec 7, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
It was founded in 1957 in Rome, Italy, by Sister Catherine Morosoff, D.C., (b. 1910) under the direction of Pope Pius XII at the recommendation of Cardinal Eugene Tisserant, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Eastern Churches, in order to start a monastery...
by Vincentian Family Office | Nov 30, 2015 | Formation, Year of Vincentian Collaboration
Prior to its independence in July 2011 from the old Sudan, South Sudan has known nothing but war and conflict. The devastation that engulfed this part of Africa for more than 20 years included destroyed infrastructure, the highest rate of illiteracy in the world,...
