October 2016 - Vincentian Mindwalk

Ned Loughran – funeral information

Oct 16, 2016 | Eastern Province, Prayer request

Funeral information for New Loughran

Prayer request for Fr. Greg Gay’s sister

Oct 15, 2016 | Eastern Province

Please pray for Merete Gay, the sister-in-law of Greg Gay, CM, former Superior General. Merete is undergoing a liver transplant at this present moment. Many thanks for your prayers.

+ Jim Dorr’s brother

Oct 13, 2016 | Eastern Province

Jim Dorr’s brother James J. McGovern ddied five (5) months to the day after his wife Joan died

Proceeding discreetly and humbly

Oct 13, 2016 | Eastern Province

Seeing – the beginning of systemic change

Oct 12, 2016 | Eastern Province

Seeing is the necessary beginning of systemic change. Systemic change requires looking anew at something we see…but do not see. This kind of seeing is really more like reading, reading the “signs of the times.” St. Vincent was a man of the concrete whose starting point is direct knowledge of events about which he reflects […]

Ned Loughran requests prayers

Oct 10, 2016 | Eastern Province, Prayer request

Please remember our former confrere NED LOUGHRAN in your prayers (ordination class of 1967). He is presently under hospice care in his home in Boston. In March he learned that his prostate cancer, in remission for some eight years, has affected several lymph nodes, and he is presently under the care of a cancer oncologist. […]

Something we can all agree on

Oct 7, 2016 | Eastern Province

The Sisters of Charity Federation members at their recent meetings committed themselves to joining in prayer and fasting for wisdom and discernment as the U.S. moves toward national elections. As a Congregation, and as a collective of Congregations, we feel impelled to enter into deep prayer for all of the electorate, the candidates (national, state, […]

Update on Fr. John Prager

Oct 5, 2016 | Eastern Province

As many of you know from an earlier post, Fr. John Prager has been in serious condition in a hospital in Ecuador. The latest word is that he is progressing slowly but steadily. He is able to sit up and hopes to be breathing on his own shortly. His brother has been with him and when […]

+Father of Marty Howfield

Oct 3, 2016 | Eastern Province, Provincial's Perspective

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Paul Howfield, the father of Marty Howfield. Marty in known to many connected with the Eastern Province for his great efforts in gathering the alumni from St. Joe’s Preparatory Seminary. Funeral Arrangements Viewing: Monday, October 3, 2016 2:00-4:00 P.M. 7:00-9:00 P.M. Elmont Funeral Home 1528 Hempstead Turnpike […]

Mary’s Shrine – Dedicatory Organ Recital

Oct 2, 2016 | Eastern Province

Roger Nyquist, DMA, performed magnificently for the dedicatory recital of the newly installed organ at Mary’s Central Shrine. The recital concluded a week of celebration of the 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Vincentians in the US and the completion of the renovation of the sanctuary of the Mary Central’s Shrine. Benefactors and the general […]

Superior General with Pope Francis