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Contemplation: Go Gently, Pray Much 720 472 Tim Williams

Contemplation: Go Gently, Pray Much

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  The challenge of poverty seems always to be urgent, to demand our immediate attention and action. As people of action, Vincentians can even sometimes become impatient with one another as we seek to put into motion new plans and new works…

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Connecting SVdP Thrift Stores to Our Mission

People have asked, “How are SVdP Thrift Stores connected to our overall mission?” This is a great question. Many SVdP thrift stores have been around for a long time raising financial resources and giving merchandise from their stores to help their Neighbors in Need (NIN). Other stores, like the one you will see in the…

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10-23-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

Just Ask — Sharing the Blessing Of Our Vocation As Vincentians, we are each called to live our vocation through the simple yet profound acts of friendship, service, and spirituality. Every home visit, every prayer shared, and every meal served brings us closer to Christ through those we serve. But this vocation—this blessing—is not meant…

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10-23-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

We Are All Called To Be Vincentian Fundraisers “I didn’t join the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to become a fundraiser.” “I don’t know how to fundraise, and I thought we hired people who already do that.” “I don’t like asking people for money.” I hear these comments quite often when I speak to…

Contemplation: Fully and Creatively 720 471 Tim Williams

Contemplation: Fully and Creatively

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  “Love,” St. Vincent taught, “is inventive even to infinity.” Vincent’s example in this observation was the ultimate example of both love and creativity, the institution of the Eucharist by Jesus, who recognized that “His absence could cause some forgetfulness or cooling…

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10-16-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

When More Is Less As Vincentians, we all see the increase in requests for assistance coming into our Conferences and Councils every day. And as that demand grows, expanding services for people in need causes us to face a difficult challenge: how to remain faithful to Vincentian values and spirituality while embracing new systems, technologies,…

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Contemplation: Redeeming Our Miles

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  “There but for the grace of God go I” we often think when we meet the neighbor on our home visits. We are reminded how precarious and fragile life can be, and how easily any one of us can fall into…

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SVdP USA on Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic Exhortation, Dilexi Te

The first Apostolic Exhortation from Pope Leo XIV entitled Dilexi Te (“I Have Loved You”) is greeted with the utmost joy and appreciation by our 81,000 members of The Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA (SVdPUSA). The vision outlined by the Holy Father to serve the poor with love and compassion is not only the call of the Gospel, it has…

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Fr. Chester P. Smith National Black Catholic Men’s Conference

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was represented by four Vincentians – Mark Warren of New Jersey, Myron Hubbard of Chicago, Ill., Bruce Steward of Houston, Texas, and Bernard Onwuemelie of Detroit, Mich. – at the Fr. Chester P. Smith National Black Catholic Men’s Conference in New Orleans, La. on September 4-7, 2025. The…

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10-09-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

Architects of Hope This week has been a whirlwind for me.  I woke up early Sunday morning in Washington, D.C., and got ready for my first Red Mass. The chief celebrant was Robert Cardinal McElroy, Archbishop of Washington D.C. Concelebrating were: Cardinal Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States; Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Archbishop for…

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