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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
