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Congregation of the Mission is 395 years old today

Since almost 400 years, the Feast of Conversion of St. Paul marks the milestone of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, which is known as Congregation of the Mission now, in English speaking world commonly known as Vincentians. On January 25, 1617 Vincent de Paul, a young priest, chaplain of the [...]

Christmas Message from the Superior General and the Curia

“The Lord comes to rule the Earth, justice ad right sustain His throne” says Superior General, Most Rev. G. Gregory Gay CM at the beginning of his annual Christmas message addressed to all members of the Vincentian Family in the world. Other members of the Curia, Assistants General and other officers follow Fr. [...]

Christmas greetings from the Personnel of General Curia in Rome

Unlike any other year before, special Christmas message is delivered from all the personnel of the General Curia of the Congregation of the Mission in Rome, Italy. Both members of the Vincentian community and lay employees are wishing you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Everybody in the video speaks in native language and [...]

Advent Letter 2011 in various languages and file formats

Letter for Advent 2011 addressed to all members of the world-wide Vincentian Family by the Superior General is brought in eight different languages this year. Additionally, technology allowed us to give it to you in different file formats PDF,TXT, EPUB. We believe, this efforts will help spread Fr. Greg’s Advent reflection to more [...]

Mission Appeal of the Superior General

In October every year Superior General addresses his Mission Appeal to all members of the Congregation of the Mission. “My brothers, we once again are in the month of October, the time when traditionally the Superior General makes an appeal to missionaries throughout the world in order to respond to the needs of [...]

Four Becomes One - New Province of the Daughters of Charity in the USA

On Sunday, July 31, 2011 the Baltimore Basilica of National Shrine of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, America’s First Cathedral hosted the very special event in the modern history of the Company of Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and the Vincentian Family the USA. During the Eucharist presided [...]

Superior General announces Vincentian Day of Prayer

“…I write to you in order to present some comments with regard to the Vincentian Family Day of Prayer which will take place on the feast of Saint Vincent de Paul…” Its proposed theme is «Harvest the fruits of the Jubilee Year!», says Superior General Rev. Gregory Gay CM in his letter [...]

Vincentian Provincial of Philippines named Bishop in Papua New Guinea

Vatican Press Office has announced today, April 6, recent episcopal appointments made by the Pope Benedict XVI: new Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and four Bishops: in diocese of La Plata (Argentina), Chittagong (Bangladesh), Cincinnati (USA) and Alotau-Sideia, Papua New Guinea, which Fr. Rolando Santos CM, Visitor of the Province of Philippines [...]

Superior General: Letter for Lent 2011

As followers of Christ “we are called to imitate Him in this unique relationship with the Father as well as imitate His reaching out in meeting the marginalized of society” – Superior General, Fr. Gregory Gay CM states in the beginning of his annual Lenten Letter which we publish below. Reaching out [...]

New technology, media and languages for Superior General Lenten Letter

Congregation of the Mission, and Vincentian Family are multilingual. Therefore nobody wonders that a document like Lenten Letter of the Superior General is published in more than in primary languages only. 2011 LETTER FOR LENT is available in eight different languages commonly used in our global community: English, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, [...]

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