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05-20-2021 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders 600 685 SVDP USA
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05-20-2021 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders

Dear Vincentian Friends, This Sunday we celebrate the feast of Pentecost. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has always had a special devotion to the Holy Spirit. We begin many of our meetings with this familiar prayer: “Come, Holy Spirit, live within our lives, and strengthen us by your love. Send forth your Spirit,…

Contemplation – Putting Ourselves First? 940 788 SVDP USA
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Contemplation – Putting Ourselves First?

To become a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is to dedicate ourselves to serving others, to “love God…with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brows.” We hope that our works always are characterized by the Vincentian virtue of selflessness. And yet, as Bl. Frédéric put it, “it…

05-13-2021 News Roundup 1200 1200 SVDP USA
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05-13-2021 News Roundup

Through the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentians across the United States and around the world are finding spiritual growth by providing person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering. Read some of their stories here: INTERNATIONAL CANADA: Team biking from Oshawa to CN Tower in support of the Society of Saint Vincent…

05-13-2021 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders 275 287 SVDP USA
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05-13-2021 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders

Why should I care? We all ask this at some point when we learn something new, and especially when it challenges our assumptions and what we think we believe. We want to stay in our comfort zone. We believe that we act as we always have, and may not realize that our views and knowledge…

Contemplation – Together Towards Holiness 940 788 SVDP USA
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Contemplation – Together Towards Holiness

New friends are silver, they say, and old friends are gold. Maintaining our friendships during this long year of absence and isolation has been challenging. As Blessed Frédéric Ozanam once explained, friendships, when we are separated, can be nourished via letters, which are a “truly an epistolary meeting where one always gains and never loses.”…

05-06-2021 News Roundup 1200 1200 SVDP USA
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05-06-2021 News Roundup

Through the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentians across the United States and around the world are finding spiritual growth by providing person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering. Read some of their stories here: NATIONAL BOISE, ID: St. Vincent de Paul hosts mobile food pantry at new Boise office CINCINNATI, OH:…

05-06-2021 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders 150 150 SVDP USA
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05-06-2021 A Letter From Our Servant Leaders

This week I visited a Council with a small film crew to record what Vincentians have been doing during the pandemic, and how it differs from pre-COVID practices to serve neighbors in need. Much more on this at a future date, but we look forward to sharing the Society’s year of  innovative love and caring…

Contemplation: Our Labor of Love 940 788 SVDP USA
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Contemplation: Our Labor of Love

On the very first page of our Rule you will find a truly remarkable statement: “No work of charity is foreign to the Society.” [Rule, Pt. I, 1.3] All modern communities thrive by specialization; farmers farm, builders build, writers write, and so on. Within the community of charitable and philanthropic organizations, there also tends to…

04-29-2021 News Roundup 1200 1200 SVDP USA
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04-29-2021 News Roundup

Through the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentians across the United States and around the world are finding spiritual growth by providing person-to-person service to those who are needy and suffering. Read some of their stories here: INTERNATIONAL  AUSTRALIA: Vinnies 2021 CEO Sleepout will bring awareness to homelessness AUSTRALIA: St. Stanislaus College students provide…

04-29-2021 Letter from Our Servant Leaders 275 287 SVDP USA
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04-29-2021 Letter from Our Servant Leaders

We all learned something this past pandemic year. Individuals learned how much they can stand their family members in the house for long periods of time. They memorized the pizza carryout phone number. And they realized how much we miss airplanes, meetings with real, live people and the concept of breaking bread together – without…

New Conference With Special Tie to St. Gianna Beretta Molla 680 583 SVDP USA
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New Conference With Special Tie to St. Gianna Beretta Molla

St. Gianna Molla Parish was erected by Denver Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila in 2018. Fr. Jason Wunsch, who was the Parochial Vicar at Ascension Parish, was appointed as pastor of the new parish. Fr. Wunsch and Archbishop Aquila are pictured here with Gianna Emanuela Molla, St. Gianna Molla’s daughter, at her mother’s grave in Mesero,…

Contemplation: God’s Gift, Wrapped in Humility 940 788 SVDP USA
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Contemplation: God’s Gift, Wrapped in Humility

Have you ever seen somebody, puffed up with himself, stride into a room, clearly expecting to be the center of attention? Sometimes we hear people mutter, “He thinks he’s God’s gift to us…” It’s a shame that this expression is used as a derisive commentary on personal vanity, because, when you think about it, aren’t…

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