by cduggan@vincentian.org | Dec 8, 2021 | Carousel, Province News
Young People Living the Vincentian Charism While the recruitment and formation of new Vincentian priests and brothers is a vital work today, so is the mission of encouraging young people to take up the work of serving the poor. Today, youth volunteer groups like the...
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...
