by cduggan@vincentian.org | Dec 15, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
Fr. Richard Wehrmeyer, C.M., Formation Director for the Congregation of the Mission Western Province, discusses the need for quiet times, whether discerning a calling to religious life or at any other times. He begins with a story of how his own calling came out of...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Nov 15, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
Fr. Jerome Herff, C.M., tells Conversations with Confreres about a three-year assignment at a Navajo reservation that turned into 14 years. With a ministerial career that also includes establishing Spanish-language Masses at a parish in California, Fr. Jerome, who now...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Oct 17, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
In the October installment of Conversations with Confreres, Bro. Harvey Goertz, C.M., tells of serving a community after a devastating tornado. Bro. Harvey took his vows more than 40 years ago and spent much of that time in the farm ministry in Perryville, MO, which...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Oct 6, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
The 2021 recipient of the CM Western Province’s Walking with the Poor Grant, the Division of Mission and Ministry at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, TX, reports a successful year of programming aimed at teaching a variety of social justice lessons to...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Oct 5, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
With some frequency, Vincentian priests and brothers are asked what the initials “C.M.” stand for. The humorous reply is usually “constantly moving,” but of course the real answer is “Congregation of the Mission.” This leads people to think (erroneously) that this...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Sep 27, 2022 | Carousel, Education/Evangelization
By Fr. Ray Van Dorpe, C.M. The feast day for St. Vincent de Paul, the founder of the Congregation of the Mission, is celebrated Sept. 27. For this occasion, Fr. Ray Van Dorpe, C.M., offers the following reflection. One of the most often-quoted lines from St. Vincent...
