Digital Mission: The Church Meets the New Online Peripheries
An international online event organized by the Communications Office of the Congregation of the Mission explores how to bring the Gospel into digital contexts through authentic and missionary strategies.
THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSION AT 401 YEARS: HISTORICAL MEMORY, THEOLOGICAL DISCERNMENT AND PASTORAL COMMITMENT
401 years after its foundation, the Congregation of the Mission is called upon to preserve the memory of its charism and to reinterpret it in the context of the present day. Between theological discernment and pastoral zeal, the Vincentian legacy continues to point to the poor as a living place of conversion and mission.
Sign today the same contract that Saint Vincent de Paul signed 401 years ago
Today, you too can sign the contract that gave rise to the Congregation of the Mission.
A companion in discernment: André Duval alongside Saint Vincent
Sometimes God entrusts our faithfulness to a discreet voice: someone who does not replace us, but helps us to see clearly. For Saint Vincent, that presence had a name: André Duval.
Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul and Anniversary of the Founding of the Congregation of the Mission (1617 – 2026)
On 25 January, the feast of the conversion of St Paul, we celebrate 409 years since the intuition that was born in Folleville. In the silence of a confessional, Vincent de Paul encountered the Risen One: that is where our missionary “adventure” began. Today, in different cultures, our charism calls us to be communities that […]
«Give yourselves to God in the person of the poor»
When reading St Vincent’s letters and accounts of his life, sooner or later you come across a phrase that seems to sum up his entire experience: some young women, talking to him, say that they have ‘given themselves to God in the person of the poor’.
Saint Vincent and the “discarded”
When we think of Saint Vincent de Paul and the poor, we think of peasants in the French countryside or beggars in Paris. But if we look at his letters and documents, the picture broadens: we see lepers, blind beggars, galley slaves, prisoners, “disorderly” girls, women wounded in their souls. It is the world of […]
The Congregation of the Mission celebrates 400 years of charity together with Pope Leo and 1,300 people living in poverty
The new liturgical books of the Congregation of the Mission and the Company of the Daughters of Charity
The new Vincentian Lectionary gives voice to the Word of God in the liturgy of the Vincentian Family. A separate volume, edited by Fr. Giorgio Bontempi C.M., which renews the texts, structure and readings specific to St. Vincent, St. Louise and the Miraculous Medal. A visible sign of the Word that illuminates mission and charity.
Announcement of the appointment as Bishop of the Diocese of Alotau-Sideia of Fr. Jacek Piotr Tendej CM
With gratitude to the Lord, we announce that the Holy Father has entrusted a new mission to our confrere, Rev. Jacek Piotr Tendej, C.M., appointing him Bishop of the Diocese of Alotau-Sideia, in Papua New Guinea.
