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 19, 2022 | Education/Evangelization, Province News
By Sharon Essner This monthly series on the China Missions of the 20th and 21st centuries leads up to the 2023 celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Congregation of the Mission Western Province’s ministry in China. We begin with an introduction of the...
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 22, 2022 | Carousel, Province News
Though she didn’t know it at the time, Vie Thorgren’s first introduction to the Congregation of the Mission was on the night before her First Communion. In a dream, a man showed her to a bridge between some big, fancy houses and a rundown shack. She and the man stood...
