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“The light shines in the darkness...- Superior General writes for Advent 2011

Words from the Gospel of St. John: “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” introduce us to the Advent Letter of the Superior General. In his reflection addressed to all members of worldwide Vincentian Family Fr. Gregory Gay CM writes: “I am edified by [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Superior General writes on use of new technologies in the mission

“The world is not now what it once was, nor is it what it will be”, says Superior General, Rev. Gregory Gay CM in his letter released today, on use of new technologies in communication and mission. “Just twenty years ago few in the Congregation had any awareness of how the world would [...]

A Story of Living Without Frontiers - Advent Letter of Superior General

As it was in previous years, Superior General, Fr. Gregory Gay CM addressed all members of the Vincentian Family in his Advent Letter. He entitled this year’s reflection: «Christmas: A Story of Living Without Frontiers». “The images of darkness and light, night and day, despair and hope, death and life, hell and [...]

Superior General presents recents Curia appointments

On November 9, 2010 Superior General, Fr. Gregory Gay CM has issued a Circular Letter providing background on recent nominations of Curia officials: Econome General – Rev. Joseph Geders CM, Secretary General – Giuseppe Turati CM and Procurator General – Rev. Alberto Vernaschi CM. Below we present these Confreres to you according [...]

New Director General of the Daughters of Charity named

This morning, October 21, 2010 in Paris Sister Evelyne Franc, D.C., Superioress General of the Daughters of Charity, announced to the Sisters that Father Gregory Gay, C.M. has appointed Father Patrick J. GRIFFIN, C.M., member of U.S. Eastern Province as the new Director General of the Company of Daughters of Charity of St. [...]

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