So Said Saint Vincent
“If we are faithful to God, we will lack nothing.”
— St. Vincent de Paul
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VinSights
Vincentian Insights from the Province
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Fr. John Freund, CM
Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, Executive President of the Worldwide Vincentian Family, looks back on his six years of leadership. As I read his letter, I had the sense of a man opening his heart to over four million followers of Vincent. Read or listen to the post HERE.
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Fr. Tom McKenna, CM
Moving On
(Jeremiah 1:17-19)
“Call,” a notion that figures prominently in the Scriptures, God summoning people to change direction. Heading nowhere in particular, someone senses an inner prod to take some new course. The prophets experience this, living through ordinary days when some faint impulse begins to register inside them. Read the post HERE.
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Fr. Patrick Griffin, CM
A Vincentian View: Be Kind
Sometimes when I read the Scriptures, a word pops out for me in a way that it has not done before. In a Eucharist of the past week, Psalm 103 had that effect. The repeated responsorial verse professed “The Lord is kind and merciful.” The word that really emerged in the phrase was “kind.” Read the post HERE.
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Special VinSight
A “We” Virus?
A million refugees, no refugee camps: Poles open their homes to Ukrainians (Crux )
The headline immediately caught my attention – especially since the reality as I write has swelled to more like two million.
The Polish Ambassador to the United States, Marek Magierowski, told CNN: “This is probably the first migration crisis in Europe’s history, in which the host country doesn’t need to build refugee camps.”
Read Fr. Freund's complete essay HERE.
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A Daughter of Charity
Speaks About the Ukrainian Conflict
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Sister Petra and other Sisters are on the Slovakian-Ukrainian border, assisting people who are fleeing their country because of the war. Our assistance consists providing the refugees with food, clothing and medicine. See Sister's video HERE.
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Letter of Father Pedro Opeka, CM to Vladimir Putin
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Pedro Opeka, C. M. is a missionary of the Congregation of the Mission who has lived and ministered in Madagascar for more than fifty years. Father Pedro Opeka, CM has written and published an open letter to the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, urging him to immediately stop the invasion and the war that was initiated against Ukraine. Read the letter HERE.
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Depaul Ukraine Emergency Appeal – Aiding the People of Ukraine
The terrible war and suffering that has been unleashed against the people of Ukraine has united us in prayer for the victims, the refugees, and all those in harm’s way.
If you are looking for a charity in Ukraine working directly with the displaced and in Slovakia with the Ukrainian refugees pouring into that country, Depaul International is part of the Vincentian Family of organizations. Read more HERE.
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Meet Fr. Leo Tiburcio, CM
A monthly series in Vincentian Voices that asks five random questions to an Eastern Province Priest or Brother. This month, we talk with Fr. Leo Tiburcio. Fr. Leo is Pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Charlotte, NC. Read his answers HERE.
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Professor Michael Sampson taught Ukrainian children as a Fulbright Scholar and now imagines the terrors they face
The crisp morning last October I had been anticipating for months finally arrived. After a two-day orientation organized by Fulbright Ukraine, I flew to Dnipro and arrived at my new apartment in the city center. I felt mild culture shock as I walked the streets, encountered the Cyrillic alphabet on storefronts, and heard Russian and Ukrainian being spoken by everyone around me. Read his story HERE.
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Members of the Niagara University community gathered to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine during a panel presentation on March 10, 2022. Four professors offered insight from different academic perspectives and answered questions following the presentation. Read more HERE.
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SUPPORT the Work of the Vincentians
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The Vincentian Priests and Brothers of the Eastern Province serve those on the margins in areas often forgotten by the world. This includes pastoring the poorest of parishes, prison ministry, addiction recovery, immigrant and migrant services, and much more.
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Fr. Rooney's most popular Vincentian Minute video from the past month is titled,
A Vincentian Minute - The Vincentian Family
Fr. Rooney, introduces the Vincentian Family and its various branches.
To watch the short video, click the image above or click HERE.
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Talking Catholic chats with the Vincentian Congregation priests in the Diocese of Camden
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Talking Catholic hosts, Kari Janisse and Mike Walsh, welcome special guests from the Vincentian Congregation to continue the podcast’s religious communities series! Father Sanjai Devis, VC, Father Shaji Muttathottil, VC, and Father Naveen Borlakunta, VC., who serve at Our Lady of Peace Parish in Williamstown, NJ. Listen to the podcast HERE.
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The Saint Vincent de Paul
Food Pantry Stomp
Madison, Wisconsin, 1980
By Martín Espada
Waiting for the carton of food
given with Christian suspicion
even to agency-certified charity cases
like me,
thin and brittle
as uncooked linguini,
anticipating the factory-damaged cans
of tomato soup, beets, three-bean salad
in a welfare cornucopia,
I spotted a squashed dollar bill
on the floor, and with
a Saint Vincent de Paul food pantry stomp
pinned it under my sneaker,
tied my laces meticulously,
and stuffed the bill in my sock
like a smuggler of diamonds,
all beneath the plaster statue wingspan
of Saint Vinnie,
who was unaware
of the dance
named in his honor
by a maraca shaker
in the salsa band
of the unemployed.
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Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist and translator. His new book of poems from Norton is called Floaters, winner of the 2021 National Book Award. His book of essays and poems, Zapata’s Disciple (1998), was banned in Tucson as part of the Mexican-American Studies Program outlawed by the state of Arizona, and reissued by Northwestern. A former tenant lawyer in Greater Boston, Espada is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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Comic by Fr. Al Pehrsson, CM
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