Vincentian Family Context, Collaboration, Challenges

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Why a family?

Reflections on

context, spirituality,collaboration, andchallenges


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3. Method of our response

1. Situation of poverty

2. Heart of our Vincentian

response: Vincentian Spirituality

4. Challenges


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Jeffrey Sachs

Head of Earth Institute Columb

University (New York)

UNITED NATIONS

Millennium Development

Goals

Reduce worldwide poverty

into half by 2015

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8+ million people die each

year because they are toopoor to stay alive

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1.1 billion people live inextreme poverty

More than 1/6th of the 6 billion

people in the world today

AIDS, drought, isolation, civil

wars, government corruption, etc.

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2001: East Asia200 M +

South Asia400 M +

Africa250 M +

Africa: nearly half of its

population live in

extreme povertylive

on less than $1 a day

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Suggested means to cut

worldwide poverty in half by

2015:

More aid to extremely

poor countries

especially in sub-

saharan Africa; debtrelief; more trade, and

new taxes

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Is there anything that the Vincentian

Family can do in the face of such

extreme need?

What would this (these) be?

How would it (they) be to thoseoffered by other people?

What needs to be done on the short

term as well as the long term in order

to give an effective, long-lasting

response?

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1. What the data imply

The kind of response we give depends onhow we view poverty.

Is it evil? Is it something that will always

be with us?

Is it economic?

Political? Social,

cultural, moral,or even

spiritual?

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2. Collaboration is the method with

which to address poverty today

Is it to be presumed or encouraged,

nay institutionalized?

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VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY:THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO

THE POOR

1. Vincent de Paul always

looked at the human personas a wholeas much a

spiritual, moral, as a

political, social, culturalentity, with aspirations that

include also the economic.
http://famvin.stjohns.edu/con99/html/sv39.html


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St. Vincent de PaulPoverty

is not the will of God.

It defaces the dignity ofevery poor person and the

image of God in them.

Gordon Brown - one moralreason for fighting poverty:

no child should die if it is

avoidable.


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2. St. Vincent de Paul -

Poverty is also a possible

event of salvation. Vincent saw in the poor the

very person of Christ.

In the person of the poor,you serve Jesus Christ. . .

You serve Christ in the

person of the poor


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3. Vincent experienced how the poor brought him to

God. The poor, to put it in contemporary terms,

evangelized him. the net result of my experience on the

matter is the judgment I have ever

formed, that true religiontrue religion,

Gentlemen, is to be found among thepoor. God enriches them with a lively

faith; they believe, they touch, they taste

the words of life. . .


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We thought we went to help. We ended up receivingmore than we have given.

the poor are an integral part of our Family and not

merely recipients of our benevolence and charity.


THE POOR
http://www.famvin.org/malaria/


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There is need for collaboration all over

the world to rally around this project.


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The Vincentian Family tries to unite groups

trying to address poverty. But we are not the

only one. There are many others, with whom wecan collaborate, synchronize, network.

Individual

charities and

foundations

would not besufficient.

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Collaboration can make a world of

difference.

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Networking, synergizing, global

cooperation, etc.

Vincent, Louise de Marillac, and

Ozanam discovered this several

centuries ago

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AIC: Against all forms of poverty,

we are to act together.

St. Vincent de Paul:

Today the poor

continue to multiplyin number, their cry

goes up to heaven.

God calls us to serve

them, but he wants

that we do it

together.

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Poverty is a social, political, economic

and moral issue.

The only way to fight it and to help the poor

is to bring together economists, politicians,

and social scientists, religious men and

women, etc.

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Vincentian Family

Collaboration on the international level

On the national level, only in some

countries.

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CHALLENGES OF TODAY

1. Deepen our VincentianSpirituality.

2. To make direct contactwith the poor.

caring presence, and

help and assistance.

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3. To promote formation of directors

4. To intensify collaboration

Appreciate the need today

to coordinate, network, andcollaborate with other

government, non-

government agencies,

national and internationalorganizations such as the

U.N.

CHALLENGES OF TODAY

CHALLENGES OF TODAY


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5. To involve the young

Vincentian Family

focus: being present to

the world of the youth

International Meeting of

the Vincentian Marian

Youth (JMV)Paris inAugust 2005

CHALLENGES OF TODAY

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