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Friends of the Poor Grant Awards Announced for Mideast and Midwest Regions 500 500 SVDP USA

Friends of the Poor Grant Awards Announced for Mideast and Midwest Regions

We received 52 grant applications totaling $260,000.00. Grant awards for this round total $75,000. Through a simple application process, SVdP Conferences and District Councils can apply for up to $5,000 from the National Council’s Friends of the Poor® Fund. The Friends of the Poor® funds available to grant is normally limited to the amount raised…

07-27-2023 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders 1080 1080 SVDP USA

07-27-2023 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders

In 1986, when I joined the Society of St. Vincent de Paul as a teenager at the age of 15, I never imagined that one day I would be elected International President General. Never. My desire was to respond to the call of Our Lord Jesus Christ, who preached: “What you do to the least…

Contemplation — The Mysterious Voice from Within 1080 1080 SVDP USA

Contemplation — The Mysterious Voice from Within

Of our five Vincentian Virtues, the one that first comes to mind in considering the life and works of our founder, Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, is humility, which our Rule teaches us is “accepting the truth about our frailties, gifts, talents, and charism, yet knowing that all that God gives us is for others and that…

SVdP News Roundup July 15 – July 21 1080 1080 SVDP USA

SVdP News Roundup July 15 – July 21

With 100,000 Vincentians across the United States and nearly 800,000 around the world, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul provides person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering. Read some of their stories here: INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA: Queensland government’s social housing build of 485 in past financial year labelled ‘disappointing’ by advocacy groups IRELAND: Planning logged by…

A Week in Prayers July 17 – July 21 1080 1080 SVDP USA

A Week in Prayers July 17 – July 21

Monday, July 17 Hear my prayers, Lord, Not for myself, But for all those in need Of Your grace. My friends and my foes, The rich and the poor, In each of whom I see Your face. Amen Tuesday, July 18 Light of the world Dawn of the day Hope of the kingdom to come…

7-20-23 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders 1080 1080 SVDP USA
  • Jill Pioter

7-20-23 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders

My wife and I spread our charitable giving over the year, giving to a different charity or two each month. We annually add one here and there, and sometimes we subtract a charity too — usually because of how they have listened to us, or increasingly, changed their mission or activities away from our reasons…

Contemplation — Our Most Earnest Study 1080 1080 SVDP USA

Contemplation — Our Most Earnest Study

As Christians, we are called to perfection, which we seek to attain through formation. We are formed in mind, body, and spirit in a lifelong process of attaining the fullness of our humanity, revealed to us in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. In the Society, we recognize four different dimensions of formation: human, spiritual, intellectual,…

SVdP News Roundup July 8 – July 14 1080 1080 SVDP USA

SVdP News Roundup July 8 – July 14

With 100,000 Vincentians across the United States and nearly 800,000 around the world, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul provides person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering. Read some of their stories here: INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA: Cost of living increases mean more people are seeking help from charities AUSTRALIA: NSW Vinnies Community Sleepout launches in Western…

A Week in Prayers July 10 – July 14 1080 1080 SVDP USA

A Week in Prayers July 10 – July 14

Monday, July 10 Lord, in Your mercy, Lord, in Your love, Lord, in Your infinite grace, Forgive me my failings, Lift me from darkness, Into the light of Your face. Amen Tuesday, July 11 Lord, may my faith move mountains; May it heal, may it soothe, may it grow. Lord, may my hope light the…

SVdP Disaster Services Corporation Welcomes New Chairman of the Board 787 738 SVDP USA

SVdP Disaster Services Corporation Welcomes New Chairman of the Board

SVdP USA’s Disaster Services Corporation (DSC) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Brian Burgess as the new Chairman of the Board. Brian will succeed Chairman Emeritus Christopher Disney, assuming the position at the conclusion of his appointment. With his extensive experience and dedication to the SVdP mission, Brian Burgess is well-suited to lead as…

07-13-2023 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders 1080 1080 SVDP USA

07-13-2023 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders

Dear Vincentian Friends, Conferences and Councils are the heart of the Society. They are where we live out our spirituality, friendship, and service on a daily basis. To meet the Society’s primary purpose of helping our members grow in holiness, there is an ongoing need to strengthen, grow, revitalize and support Conferences and Councils. The…

Contemplation — Chosen as Friends 1080 1080 SVDP USA
  • Jill Pioter

Contemplation — Chosen as Friends

Childhood friends, friends from school, friends from the neighborhood, teammates, Army buddies, work friends, Facebook friends, new friends, and old friends — we all have many lists of friends, and many ways of forming friendships. But when you hear the word “friend,” whose face comes to your mind first? Is it a friend you see…

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