A call for Prayer on the 10th, 20th and 30th of the month
The spirit of this initiative is to motivate each member of the SSVP to take 15 minutes every 10th, 20th and 30th day of each month to ask the intercessions of our Lady of Fatima,
L to R: President General Renato Lima de Oliveira, Cardinal John Dew and NZ President Terry Comber
SSVP International President General’s Visit to New Zealand
MESSAGE FOR LENT 2017
The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Lent is a new beginning, a path leading to the certain goal of Easter, Christ’s victory over death. This season urgently calls us to conversion. Christians are asked to return to God “with all their hearts” (Joel 2:12), to refuse to settle for mediocrity and to grow in friendship with the Lord. Jesus is the faithful friend who never abandons us.
THE 400TH BIRTHDAY OF THE VINCENTIAN CHARISM
Father Robert Maloney, CM – International Spiritual Advisor of CGI/SSVP
St. Vincent always regarded 1617 as the birthday of his Family. Even though his three principal foundations had distinct juridical birth dates – the Confraternities of Charity in 1617, the Congregation of the Mission in 1625, and the Daughters of Charity in 1633 – Vincent consistently looked back at 1617 as the year when everything began.... Read More
