by CM Communications | Nov 6, 2020 | News, Spirituality, Vincentian Saints
The Holy Father Francis will bless the holy image of the Immaculate Virgin Mary of the Miraculous Medal on Wednesday 11 November in the Vatican in the presence of the superior general of the Congregation of the Mission, Fr. Tomaž Mavrič and a small delegation that...
by CM Communications | Nov 5, 2020 | News, Vincentian Saints
On November 6 we observe the memory of the 60 witnesses to the faith, up to the shedding of their blood. All of them belong to our great Vincentian Family. They belonged to these branches: * 40 missioners of the Congregation of the Mission (24 priests and 16 brothers)...
by CM Communications | Oct 31, 2020 | News, Saint Vincent de Paul, Spirituality, Vincentian Saints
Introduction: Holiness in the Church “The saints are not heroes but friends of God” (Cardinal Ratziner) What is the meaning of saint? Who is called to be a saint? Many still think that the goal of holiness is something that is reserved for a select few...
by CM Communications | Oct 20, 2020 | News, Vincentian Saints
San Fele (PZ), 9 October 2020. Justin De Jacobis is remembered, in the small Lucanian town where he came into the world 220 years ago, as a “man of dialogue and weaver of fraternity.” The initiative intended to inaugurate the missionary month of October in Basilicata,...
by Communication Cont | Oct 2, 2020 | Vincentian Saints
Catherine Labouré is a very human woman, a saint very close to us. Her life was, at the same time, extraordinarily simple and extraordinarily remarkable. She possessed a true passion for God, the Blessed Virgin, Saint Vincent and those who are poor. Her personality...
by Communication Cont | Oct 2, 2020 | Vincentian Saints
“Ask God for my conversion and my sanctification,… so that I may accomplish at least a part of his designs for me and grant me His mercy for the rest.” Excerpt from a letter of John Gabriel Perboyre to his brother, in charge of the Sacristy at St. Lazare, Motherhouse...
