St Vincent de Paul gave the mission he was given by God: \u201cto preach the Gospel to the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n
When sending forth his first missionaries, St. Vincent de Paul said \u201cour vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but to all over the world, and to do what?\u00a0 To set people\u2019s hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did.\u00a0 He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with his love.\u201d<\/p>\n
The spiritual sons and daughters of Vincent\u00a0…\u00a0\u201cset America “on fire” with Christ ‘s love; and the flame is still burning, burning for for the poor and abandoned; burning for those in formation for priestly ministry; burning for those in countless churches longing to hear God’s Word; burning in their confessionals, for those aching for God’s mercy; burning for those in schools and universities seeking knowledge and wisdom; burning in hospitals and prisons; burning for and with the Daughters of Charity and the wider Vincentian family; burning at home and in mission lands; burning for justice and peace and inclusion and wholeness and Christ’s love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bishop David O\u2019Connell, CM
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St Vincent de Paul gave the mission he was given by God: \u201cto preach the Gospel to the poor.\u201d When sending forth his first missionaries, St. Vincent de Paul said \u201cour vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but to all over the world, and to do what?\u00a0 … Continue reading St Vincent de Paul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34095,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34092\/revisions\/34095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}