Great Britain’s Ambitious 13 Houses Plans
The Vincentian Family in Great Britain is collaborating to plan 13 Houses projects across the country. As Fr Robert Maloney showed, collaboration was the default position of the early Vincentian Family and so it continues today. The UK-based Family members met at the...
Laudato si’ and Homelessness
'The baneful consequences', Pope Francis told the United Nations, 'of an irresponsible mismanagement of the global economy, guided only by ambition for wealth and power, must serve as a summons to a forthright reflection on man’. The poverty, the inequality, the...
“To be outside”: A “spiritual” experience!
"Lazarus, come out! Jesus cried out (John 11, 43)”. However, what does it mean "to be outside"? Summary of Mgr. Bruno-Marie DUFFÉ speech during the FHA International Conference (November 28, 2018) To be outside, explains Bishop Duffé (Secretary of the Dicastery...
A View from India – The Congregation of the Mission in Southern India and the 13 Houses Campaign
The Coordinator of the Famvin Homeless Alliance (Mark McGreevy) visited India a couple of weeks ago. The following is one of a short series of reflections on what work the Vincentian Family in India is doing in the field of homelessness and in particular in...
A View from India – The Society of St Vincent de Paul, the Daughters of Charity and the Institute of Global Homelessness
The Coordinator of the Famvin Homeless Alliance (Mark McGreevy) visited India lately. The following is one of the reflections on the work the Vincentian Family in India is undertaking in the field of homelessness and in particular in celebration of the 400th...
A View from India – The Vincentian Congregation and the 13 Houses Campaign
The Coordinator of the Famvin Homeless Alliance (Mark McGreevy) visited India. The following is one of a short series of reflections on the work the Vincentian Family in India is doing in the field of homelessness and in particular in celebration of the 400th...
Home Visits in the Vincentian Tradition
Home visits have been entwined in the Vincentian Family’s service from its inception. Upon founding the first Confraternities of Charity in 1617, Vincent instructed the members to go ‘two by two’ to visit the sick and disadvantaged. This practice was extended to both...
Hope for Venezuela’s Refugees | 13 Houses Campaign
Over the past two months, we have shared with you some of the 13 Houses Campaign projects under construction. But there are many more we hope to build in the coming months. Here is Peru’s 13 Houses dream. Peru has almost 1.8 million people in need of a home. Fr Cruz,...
13 Houses for Homeless Families in Mexico I 13 Houses Campaign
13 Houses are being built for families who lost their home in the 2017 earthquake in the northeast town of Hueyapan in rural Mexico. The earthquake was so destructive it took rescuers over a week to access to the community. But one year later, many families are still...
Against the odds! | 13 Houses Campaign
Slum, Favela, Shanty Town... The names are different but the implications are all too often similar. Hundreds of thousands of people living crammed together in a tiny space in or around an urban area. Originally temporary but now morphed into something that feels so...
Winter is here! | 13 Houses Campaign
Winter is here: Tallinn, Estonia: -16° C; Beijing, China: -2° C; Chicago, USA: -12° C; ... As the temperatures plummet below freezing across the northern hemisphere, we tuck ourselves a little bit tighter into our warming winter coats. We put on that extra pair of...
The drop that makes the difference | 13 Houses Campaign
Kateryna quickly packed her bags in the Luhansk region of Ukraine in September 2015, only taking what was absolutely necessary for herself and her two small daughters. Her hometown had become too dangerous. Constant shelling had destroyed the homes around her. Fleeing...