New prayer for the Jubilee Year

Lord God Almighty, Father of the poor, we thank you for the grace and the opportunity you give us to celebrate this year the 350th anniversary of the death of St. Vincent and St. Louise. Through their intercession, grant that we may allow ourselves to be transformed more fully by the Spirit you gave them. May the Spirit of Charity so fill our hearts and minds that our love for our brothers and sisters - marginalized and rejected by society – may be gentle, attentive, compassionate, pro-active and “inventive unto infinity”.

Help us to find within ourselves some of the courage and diligence of Vincent and Louise, and an ever-growing love for the poor that may help to change their lives, for their spiritual and material benefit – and for your greater glory.

Help us make our faith strong and humble in a world that seems so far away from you – yet thirsts so much for you.  Make us become a sign of hope for many, as were Vincent and Louise, companions in life.

Grant that we may not back down in the face of difficulties but be ready to dirty our hands in the service of the poor, our masters. Help us learn from them to become your true sons and daughters, worthy heirs of the charism you entrusted to Vincent and Louise for the good of the Church and of all humanity,

May this jubilee year be for our Vincentian Family a year of grace and conversion, and for those we love a year of many blessings.  Amen.

VIRTUAL VINCENTIAN EXPO

A Virtual Vincentian Expo will be VinFormation’s contribution to the many resources being developed around the world for the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the deaths of Vincent and Louise.

Although there are some wrinkles to be ironed out you can get an idea of what is already available.
(Warning: it requires newer versions of browsers.)

The site gathers Vincentian material under the headings of Arts, Literature, Media, Legacy as well as sections devoted to Vincent as priest and Louise as Social worker.

It will be a supplementary source of information to the official new international 350th site in 5 languages.