Midwest Vincentian Newsletter


December 2005		“He has sent me to evangelize the poor”
Front Page Pligrimage of Faith World Youth Day A Special Visit and Blessing Superior General Visits Volunteers New Seminarian Obit: FR. Gerald Brown, CM Father Jerome Calcagno, CM Obit: Father Francis Germovnik, CM Obit: Father Nick Persich, CM Obit: Father Charles Saunders, CM Memorials & Tributes Midwest Provincial Reflection Prayer Requests Around the Provinces The Family Remembers Birthdays Contact The Vincentian The Vincentian Archive Midwest Provine Home Page		Chicago Marian Youth with Superior General, the Very Reverend G. Gregory Gay, CM Pilgrimage of Faith Seven Vincentian Marian Youths and one Daughter of Charity traveled together to Cologne, Germany in August 2005 for World Youth Day. Reflections from this journey are shared below by Vincentian seminarian and member of the Chicago chapter of the Vincentian Marian Youth, Jeremy Dixon. Read more… Adopting ‘Vincentian-Marian-Youth’ for World Youth Day Established in the fall of 2004, the Chicago chapter of the Vincentian Marian Youth (JMV) is comprised of DePaul students, DePaul alumni, and Vincentian seminarians. Over the last year, the JMV members have become regular participants in many of the activities, meals and prayers at Perboyre Mission House, and this has become the place where they gather for their monthly meetings. Soon after the Chicago JMV was established, the group decided to focus their energy on making a pilgrimage to World Youth Day 2005. Read more… A Very Special Visit and Blessing The Very Reverend G. Gregory Gay, CM, blesses the cornerstone for the new Perryville residence. Read more… Superior General Visits Gateway Vincentian Volunteers While the Congregation of the Mission’s Superior General from Rome, the Very Reverend G. Gregory Gay, CM, was visiting the Province in September, he was able to spend some time with the youth of the Gateway Vincentian Volunteers (GVV.) The mission of this program, a year-long service ministry begun in 1999 by the Midwest Province, is to provide young adults with an experience of living in community and working with the poor in the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul. “It is the goal of the program that by working, praying, and living in the spirit of St. Vincent, these young adults will develop a consuming commitment to improving the lives of the poor and marginalized in our society,” shared Jim Ryan, Co-Director of the GVV program. Read more… New Seminarian Toshio Sato is the Province’s newest seminarian beginning his first year of formation at Perboyre Mission House in Chicago. Read more… Obituaries Father Gerald Brown, CM 1927–2005 Father Jerome Calcagno, CM 1923–2005 Father Francis Germovnik, CM 1915–2005 Father Nick Persich, CM 1922–2005 Father Charles Saunders, CM 1904–2005

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