by cduggan@vincentian.org | Dec 8, 2021 | Carousel, Province News
When 26-year-old Brendan Manna was invited to make a mission trip to Kenya in 2018, he hesitated. “I told my friend Matt I wasn’t too interested,” he recalls. “When Matt said he’d go in my place, I thought that might make me look bad. We both went!” The friends joined...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Dec 8, 2021 | Carousel, Province News
Fr. Ron Ramson, C.M., has released a new book, Put Your Hands into Hers: Mary, Our Life, Our Sweetness, and Our Hope. Published through Archway Publishing, the book is Fr. Ron’s second this year. The other, I Frederic, is an “autobiography” of Blessed Frederic Ozanam,...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Dec 8, 2021 | Carousel, Province News
On June 25, Rev. Scott Jakubowski, C.M., was ordained a Vincentian priest at St. Vincent’s Church in Los Angeles. Most Rev. Andrew Bellisario, C.M., Archbishop of Juneau-Anchorage, Alaska, and himself a Vincentian, was the ordaining prelate. The ordination was...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Dec 8, 2021 | Carousel, Province News
Fr. Robert and Fr. Richard Gielow, C.M., were born in 1943 in the small town of LaSalle, IL. The fraternal twins belonged to a parish staffed by Vincentian priests and the Daughters of Charity. As their eighth-grade graduation neared, Bob and Dick made a surprising...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Dec 7, 2021 | Carousel, Province News
As winter gave way to spring last year and the realities of a global pandemic set in, the Vincentians of the Western Province had to re-think church services and a whole range of programs that rely on a closeness and presence that was no longer possible. Fr. David...
by cduggan@vincentian.org | Dec 7, 2021 | Carousel, Province News
The Provincial Office for the Congregation of the Mission Western Province will move this summer from Earth City in West St. Louis County to the Aquinas Institute of Theology building in Midtown St. Louis, next to Saint Louis University. The Western Province will...
