by cduggan@vincentian.org | Mar 31, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
Serving the poor and homeless has always been important to St. Louisan Jim Kistner. So, when he began a search for a new home parish, one of the churches he visited for Mass was St. Catherine Labouré, a Vincentian-run parish in South St. Louis County. Jim recalls that...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Mar 30, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
The Congregation of the Mission Western Province mourns the loss of Rev. John. T. Richardson, C.M., who passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at the age of 98 after a lengthy illness. Born Dec. 20, 1922, and ordained in August 1949, Fr. Richardson served his long...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Mar 28, 2022 | Province News
The spring 2022 edition of our quarterly newsletter, The Vincentian, is now available online with articles about the history of our work in Kenya, a donor spotlight, a Lenten reflection, and much more. Read the newsletter HERE. Watch for our next issue of The...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Mar 22, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
Let me say right off the bat that I have never liked the season of Lent. I’ve been a priest for almost 40 years, and I should know better. Yet I still dread the buzzkill of Ash Wednesday. It’s not the traditional practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that I...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Mar 21, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
Bro. Mark Elder, C.M., who has taught art at DePaul University in Chicago for 28 years, is near the final stages of his six-year public art project, “The Story of the Little School Under the ‘L.’” A visual history of DePaul’s 125-year history, the project consists of...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Mar 15, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
The Vincentians have always responded to the needs of people in crisis. Today, we again hear cries for help with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its terrible consequences on innocent children, men, and women. The Congregation of the Mission Western Province...
