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75th Anniversary of the UNITED NATIONS
Leaving no one behind The Vatican’s interest in the UN goes all the way back to the beginning, since the Holy See had representatives on the ground when the charter for the new planetary body was signed in San Francisco on October 24,1945. Since then, regardless of the disagreements, the Vatican’s relationship with the UN […]
The waste of food
Care for our common home has become urgent yet remains controversial 2015 – LAUDATO SI’ About $1 trillion worth of food is wasted each year, yet 820 million people go hungry and 144 million children experience stunted growth. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) indicates that reversing the food waste trend could provide […]
Saint Vincent in Haiti
On October 18-25 we celebrated another Missionary Week. We surround those who left their homeland for the Mission Ad Gentes with prayers and fond memories! Sr. Weronika, a Polish Sister who belongs to the Caribbean Province and serves the poor people of Haiti, shares with us how her Community honored St. Vincent de Paul, Founder […]
Life in prison during the Lockdown
♦ The Prison Ministry Team tells us what those days of maximum health alert meant for the inmates in prisons. The confinement we lived for weeks because of the pandemic taught us to value situations that daily pass through our lives without giving importance to them. One of them is the freedom of movement: to […]
ABLE, the Musical
Music is a medium that connects everyone. It was in this light that the concept of Able: The Musicalwas conceived. It was a Concert for a Cause with the aim of raising funds for the Our Lady of Victory (OLV) Center where differently-abled persons are housed when they come to the city for hospitalization, surgery, […]
Daughters of Charity, Province of St. Louise Goes Virtual for Assembly
This year, for the first time and because of health concerns and travel restrictions due to COVID-19, the Daughters of Charity Province of St. Louise held an all-virtual Zoom Video Meeting for its Provincial Assembly. Prior to the opening of the Assembly, two new Councillors were installed—Sisters Ellen LaCapria and Sister Denise LaRock. Through the […]
Vocation Ministry in the face of a new reality
How very precious is a good missionary! God must raise him up and fashion him; that is the work of His omnipotence and His great goodness. (St Vincent ,VII, 626) When we begin a new year, we think of proposals and projects and when we prepare an action plan, we mark it with something greater: […]
Welcome to four new Daughters of Charity!
The two Provinces of Daughters of Charity in the United States share an Inter-provincial Seminary which is located in St. Louis, Missouri. On August 22, 2020, in the Provincial Houses in Los Altos Hills, California and St. Louis, Missouri, the Sisters welcomed four new Daughters of Charity who then began their Seminary (Novitiate) on August […]
Laudato Si’ – Awareness raising while “social distancing”
Strength and stability are said to be among the qualities to celebrate at a fifth or “wood” anniversary. In designating 2020 as the beginning of a “multi-year Laudato Si’ roll-out plan”,Pope Francis invites us to strengthen and stabilise our faith in a new way. The subtitle “on care for our common home”, is not what […]
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