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When the poor evangelise the Church

Among slaves, the sick, and the forgotten poor, Saint Vincent discovers a surprising truth: the poor do not only receive the Gospel. Often it is they, with their hidden faith, who evangelise the Church.

Saint Vincent de Paul

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The poor, the heart of the mission: Saint Vincent’s view of the world

When reading the letters and stories related to the work of St. Vincent de Paul, it quickly becomes clear that the word ‘poor’ does not refer to a marginal category of Christian life for him. The poor are the centre, the point from which to interpret the mission of the Church and the actions of missionaries. A decisive insight emerges strongly in many pages: the poor are not simply recipients of aid, but constitute the immense field of mission, the concrete place where the Gospel takes shape and becomes history.

Saint Vincent de Paul

Nuntia January–February 2026

We invite our brothers and sisters to read, reflect on, and share Nuntia in their communities and with the Vincentian Family, so that the communion and apostolic zeal that unite us in the same vocation may grow.

News, Nuntia

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New Book Release: A Vincentian Reflection on Mary

The Congregation of the Mission is pleased to announce the publication of a new book now available on Amazon: St. Vincent de Paul and Devotion to Mary: The Founder’s Gift to the Vincentian Family – Yesterday and Today, by Robert P. Maloney.

Libri, News

“Signs of Hope for the Poor”: a Vincentian booklet that puts the Jubilee “in your hands”

The Congregation of the Mission announces the release of the new book by Fr. Salvatore Farì CM, Signs of Hope for the Poor, already available on Amazon in four languages. A lively and profound text for the Vincentian Family: Christian hope, concrete charity, and service to the poor, in dialogue with the journey towards the Jubilee 2025.

Libri, News

Vincentian Family in Catania: an intense and varied mosaic

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Congregation of the Mission, on Sunday 12th May, Father Tomaž Mavrič Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission visited the Vincentian Family of Catania.

May 14, 2024

From everywhere

Ash Wednesday: ‘today and forever’ with profound humility

Ash Wednesday not only inaugurates a liturgical season: it opens a decisive passage, a return to the essential. The ashes on our foreheads bring us back to the truth: we are fragile, not self-sufficient, in need of salvation. And this very truth, if accepted in the Spirit, becomes a grace: it frees us from presumption and puts us back on the path towards God and towards the poor.

Spirituality

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Lent Cycle A

A Lenten journey from the desert to glory: Cycle A accompanies catechumens and communities on a decidedly Easter-oriented path. Water, light and new life (the Samaritan woman, the man born blind, Lazarus) become concrete questions about pain, faith and the ‘last place,’ experienced with Christ.

Spirituality

At Giordano, the beginning of the mission: the Baptism of the Lord and our consecration

On Sunday, 11 January, we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord: at the Jordan, Jesus enters our history and inaugurates his mission. The heavens open, the Spirit descends, the Father proclaims him his beloved Son: the Trinity reveals itself in meekness. Read the article and renew your baptismal grace to serve and evangelise the poor in the Vincentian style.

Spirituality

The General Superior’s Lenten Letter for 2026 has been published

The Lent Letter 2026 from Superior General Tomaž Mavrič, CM, addressed to the entire Vincentian Family, entitled ‘Today and forever… with deep humility’, is now available.

Superior General

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Let us turn the page: the letter from the Superior General that accompanies us beyond the Jubilee

With deep gratitude, we welcome the letter from the Superior General to the confreres, written as the Congregation of the Mission reaches the end of the Jubilee of the Fourth Centenary of its foundation (1625–2025): a time that has united the Little Company throughout the world in prayer, celebrations, reflection and concrete service to the poor.

Superior General

Christmas Message 2025 from the Superior General Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM

Celebrating 400 years of the Congregation of the Mission, the Christmas message invites us to service and the evangelization of the poor

Superior General

Ján Havlík – As on a mission

Ján Havlík, beatified on 31 August in Šaštin, Slovakia, the servant of God Ján Havlík, seminarian of the Congregation of the Mission, recognised as a martyr of the faith.

Postulation, Saints and Blesseds

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Memorial of Blessed Ján Havlík: Texts for Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours

For the memorial of Blessed Ján Havlík, a young Vincentian and martyr of the faith, we are making these liturgical resources available. Attached you will find the texts for Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours to celebrate and pray in community.

Saints and Blesseds

Blessed Rafael Lluch Garin

“Don’t cry, Mum; I want you to be happy, because your son is very happy. I will give my life for our God. I’ll wait for you in Heaven.”

Postulation, Saints and Blesseds

Nuntia January–February 2026

We invite our brothers and sisters to read, reflect on, and share Nuntia in their communities and with the Vincentian Family, so that the communion and apostolic zeal that unite us in the same vocation may grow.

News, Nuntia

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Nuntia November 2025

Nuntia November: editorial on Christmas as closeness; Day of the Poor, art and mission, UN, life of the Curia. Read and share the CM bulletin.

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Nuntia June 2025

Download and read the latest issue of Nuntia, the magazine of the Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul!

Nuntia

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.

Congregation of the Mission

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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 are a refuge and a fraternity “of dear friends,” capable of generating vocations.

Congregation of the Mission

«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’.

Congregation of the Mission

2026: The Year of Response. A Commitment to Vocational Discernment

The reflection ‘2026: The Year of Response’, dedicated to vocational discernment from a Vincentian perspective, has been published. Jean Rolex, C.M., offers an interpretation of the ecclesial and social context and invites us to develop a ‘culture of response’ based on listening, discernment and mission. This is a useful contribution for communities and young people in the Congregation of the Mission, helping to renew paths of accompaniment and availability to serve the poor.

Vocational culture

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Discover the Heart of the Durando Institute in Vietnam

We invite you to explore, through this video, the life of the Durando Institute, the formation home for seminarians of the Congregation of the Mission in Vietnam.

Spirituality, Vocational culture

A call (also) for you: choose the Gospel that takes to the streets

If you are 16, 20 or 28 years old and feel that your faith cannot remain “on the back burner”, Vincentian spirituality gives you a simple compass: Jesus proclaiming the Gospel to the poor. This is not a ‘sector’ of pastoral care: it is the style of Jesus, for everyone, at all times. In the Congregation of the Mission, this compass has become a community journey with three very clear coordinates: growing in holiness, evangelising the poor, training servants of the Gospel..

Spirituality, Vocational culture

Drawing maps of hope, opening paths of mission

Pope Leo XIV, Apostolic Letter ‘Drawing New Maps of Hope’: Education Returns to the Heart of Evangelisation. Missionary Appeal 2025 of the Congregation of the Mission: 1% ad gentes on the 400th anniversary. Discover how the Vincentian Family and educational works combine formation, charity and new missionary openings.

Formation, International Missions

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New Vincentian missions in Pakistan: the beginning of a presence among the poor

The Province of Vietnam has sent two Vincentian missionaries to Pakistan, opening a new chapter in evangelisation. Father Peter Tran Dinh Duong, CM, and Father Vincent Nguyen Van Doan, CM, serve the poor in the Diocese of Rawalpindi. A sign of collaboration and hope that strengthens the charism of Saint Vincent in Asia.

International Missions

Mission in St. Montfort Serawai Parish – Sintang, West Kalimantan

The mission in the parish of St. Montfort Serawai, located in Sintang district, West Kalimantan, and cared for by the fathers of the Congregation of the Mission, tells of missionaries who, driven by their evangelical commitment, work not only for the spread of the Catholic faith, but also for the socio-cultural development of the population.

September 16, 2024

International Missions

From the seed planted in folleville and paris… To the lush tree of today- jubilee 2025 – III

After gratitude and repentance, the Jubilee journey opens up to a third dimension: commitment. The Jubilee is not just a remembrance, but a leap forward into the future. We are called to renew our dedication to the mission, with a heart fully committed to God and to the poor.

Jubilee, Spirituality

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From the seed planted in folleville and paris… To the lush tree of today- jubilee 2025 – II

Our jubilee journey continues, guided by the living memory of Saint Vincent de Paul. After contemplating gratitude as the first attitude of the heart, we now enter the second dimension that the Jubilee invites us to live: repentance. This is a favourable time to allow ourselves to be reconciled with God and rediscover the mercy that regenerates.

Jubilee, Spirituality

From the seed planted in folleville and paris… To the lush tree of today- Jubilee 2025

In 2025, the Congregation of the Mission will celebrate the 400th anniversary of its foundation. It is a time of grace to renew, in the light of the charism of Saint Vincent de Paul, our fidelity to Christ, evangeliser of the poor. This anniversary invites the entire Vincentian Family to live the mission we have received with a grateful, repentant and committed heart.

Formation, Jubilee

Towards the Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal

On 27 November, the Vincentian Family joyfully celebrates the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate of the Miraculous Medal. It is a moment dear to all – Vincentian Missionaries, Daughters of Charity, Associations of the Miraculous Medal, Marian Youth and lay people – to remember the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Saint Catherine Labouré in 1830 and the gift of the “Medal” that originated from that event.

Vincentian Family

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Mary, Mother of the Faithful People, leads us to Christ

Mater Populi fidelis and the Miraculous Medal: why Mary, Mother of the Faithful People, always leads us to Christ. The Medal as a sacramental that educates in the faith: a sign that disposes the heart to grace and mission.

Vincentian Family

Feast of Saint Vincent de Paul – 27 September 2025

On 27 September, we celebrate Saint Vincent de Paul, the father of our vocation. The Superior General calls us to active hope and concrete charity. A letter to read, share and live as a Vincentian Family.

Superior General, Vincentian Family

Drawing maps of hope, opening paths of mission

Pope Leo XIV, Apostolic Letter ‘Drawing New Maps of Hope’: Education Returns to the Heart of Evangelisation. Missionary Appeal 2025 of the Congregation of the Mission: 1% ad gentes on the 400th anniversary. Discover how the Vincentian Family and educational works combine formation, charity and new missionary openings.

Formation, International Missions

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Informed consent and organ donation

Informed consent is the ethical and legal basis that protects dignity and freedom in organ donation. Understanding and respecting this principle means ensuring transparency, trust and safety in transplants. Promoting a culture of informed consent is essential to saving lives and strengthening human solidarity.

Formation

The Vincentian Charism as a transformative force in contemporary education: towards a comprehensive pedagogical model

This article explores the articulation of Vincentian charism with contemporary pedagogical principles, examining its relevance and applicability in today’s educational system. It analyzes the origin of Vincentian charism, based on comprehensive service to the poor, and its evolution toward a conception of education that views students as active protagonists of their own destiny.

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