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12-18-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders 1200 1200 SVdPUSA

12-18-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

Give the Gift of Your Vocation This Christmas Dear Vincentian Friends, In this holy season, we once again marvel that God chose poverty, simplicity, and obscurity as the place where divine love would enter the world.​ Jesus arrived not in comfort, but in the vulnerability of a family seeking shelter, turned away more than once…

Society of St. Vincent de Paul Ranks 45th in Latest Forbes Annual List of America’s Top 100 Charities 764 786 SVdPUSA

Society of St. Vincent de Paul Ranks 45th in Latest Forbes Annual List of America’s Top 100 Charities

St. Louis, Mo. (December 17, 2025) – The Society of St. Vincent de Paul USA (SVdP) has risen to number 45 in Forbes’ latest ranking of America’s top 100 charities. This is the first time that SVdp has ranked in the top 50. Last year, SVdP was ranked 59th. The annual ranking by Forbes is…

Contemplation: To Hear and to Answer the Call 720 402 Tim Williams

Contemplation: To Hear and to Answer the Call

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  To be a member of the Society of St Vincent de Paul is not merely to volunteer, because to volunteer is to do something. Vincentians are not called simply to do something, but rather to be something. That is the nature…

‘Thriftmas’ is Here: Giving with Purpose this Holiday Season 1280 853 SVdPUSA

‘Thriftmas’ is Here: Giving with Purpose this Holiday Season

By Chad Caliguiri, Deputy Director, SVdP Des Moines Holiday shopping is evolving – and secondhand gifts are taking center stage. According to new consumer research, more than 8 in 10 Americans plan to purchase at least one secondhand gift this holiday season, with many allocating up to half of their gift budget to thrifted or…

Michael Acaldo, National CEO
12-11-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders 600 600 SVdPUSA

12-11-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

O Holy Night… For me it is so special to be with family at Midnight Mass to start the Christmas Season.  It is so wonderful singing and hearing the entire congregation singing, “O Holy Night.” As Vincentians, this great Christmas song touches all our hearts.  It puts into words the special time when the Word…

Contemplation: To Love as We are Loved 720 401 Tim Williams

Contemplation: To Love as We are Loved

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  Monsignor Louis Baunard, a biographer of Blessed Frédéric, once cited the Greatest Commandment to ask “is not all that the Rule, the work, and the end of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul?” [Baunard, 416] Indeed, when our Rule reminds…

12-4-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders 1200 1200 SVdPUSA

12-4-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

The Wish We Live: Personal Relationships in the Heart of Service When I moved to Georgia almost 34 years ago, it didn’t take me long to become a country music fan. Seems unlikely for a hardcore rock and roller who grew up on the beach. But it happened (let me clarify that I do not…

Bringing the Vincentian Voice to PRSA: Paula Gwynn Grant Speaks at Annual Conference 2560 1920 SVdPUSA

Bringing the Vincentian Voice to PRSA: Paula Gwynn Grant Speaks at Annual Conference

Last month, our Senior National Director of Marketing and Communications Paula Gwynn Grant participated in an interfaith communications workshop session at the annual Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) conference held at the historic Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.  The hotel is known for hosting major events like the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner…

11-26-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders 1200 1200 SVdPUSA

11-26-2025 A Letter from Our Servant Leaders

Should We Think of the Society as an Apostolate or a Ministry? In Catholic Church circles, there has been a debate over the last 20 years about what to call church groups – “ministries” or “apostolates.”  “Ministry” seems to be the favorite as it’s easy to say, but in recent years there has been more…

Contemplation: Total and Perfect 1600 900 Tim Williams

Contemplation: Total and Perfect

Leer en Español By Timothy P. Williams, Senior Director of Formation and Leadership Development  Faithful to our Rule, we “endeavor to establish relationships based on trust and friendship” with the neighbors we serve. [Rule, Part I, 1.9] It’s easy to remember of the importance of friendship. After all, it is one of our essential elements,…

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