by John Freund, CM | Oct 24, 2014 | Congregation of the Mission, Spirituality and Spiritual Practice
Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, C.M. writes”…on weekends, I help my Vincentian confreres in their parish in Payatas, the biggest garbage dump in Manila. … I was invited there to help in giving pastoral care – celebrate Masses or bless the dead, give seminars, meet people. Later, I began to realize that it was not mainly I who was helping. It was in fact they who were helping me make sense of my theology. But that is going ahead of the story.”
by John Freund, CM | Nov 8, 2013 | Vincentian Family
Step Up signs recently a consulting contract with the Vincentian Missionaries Social Development Foundation, Inc. (VMSDFI). The non-government organization is based in Quezon City and has tasked Step Up to formulate a business plan for a community enterprise that it helped establish in Payatas.
by John Freund, CM | Dec 21, 2008 | Congregation of the Mission, Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
[flash /enarchive/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/hpfp.swf] Philippines Homeless People’s Federation was formed, to bring together low-income community organizations that had developed housing savings groups in many different cities and to encourage and support the...