Un Programa Participativo

[English follows]Ayer tuve la maravillosa experiencia de estar en una reunión de jóvenes que están comprometidos a utilizar la nueva Internet – Web 2.0 – para mejorar sus propias vidas y las vidas de sus conciudadanos.

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Rosa Marta Zárate

When I was researching and preparing the homily for today, I discovered the music of Rosa Marta Zárate. Here’s a selection. I’ve sent for CDs. It’s really fine stuff (en castellano).

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Acción de Gracias || Thanksgiving

On this Thanksgiving Day, a day on which the Vincentian Family celebrates God’s special goodness, we are celebrating a Triduum in which includes the celebration of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, St. Catherine Laboure, and the foundation of the Daughters of Charity. I find myself profoundly grateful for the great women who have been [...]

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Don’t Be a Deserter

My friend Christina just wrote to me on Facebook, She’s an insightful gal so I thought I’d pass this on. She says, “Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote to the participants in the European Meeting in Geneva: “To have faith is to be willing to live so as to show that God is alive. [...]

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A Lenten Reflection from Ethiopia

from Alicia Robey, as she prepares to return home from mission . . . Hello again, everyone. Sorry I “was lost” (that’s what folks say here when I haven’t seen them in a few days. “Alicia, tefash.”… I guess I have been very lost to you all lately… a few ‘updates’ from various friends reminded [...]

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Una bendición

Uno de nuestros seminaristas, Daniel Rivera, escribe: “Amigos y Amigas en mi reciente viaje a El Salvador tuve la bendicion de conocer a Saul y su familia. Ellos son de el Canton Los Planes en La Palma, Chalatenango. Son tres hermanos que son enanitos y aparte de eso tienen malformacion fisica. Les invito a que [...]

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¡Oh, Dios mío! (OMG!)

WordPress, en su “org” y “com” versiones, tiene una función “exportación / importación” en XML. ¡Por lo tanto, FindingOurWay.US está aquí en total para la lectura!

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Charity and Relationships || the Personal side

Matt de Boer is a Vincentian Lay Missionary now home and working as a teacher in New Orleans. What follows is an excerpt of his New Year’s letter. It addresses, in a concrete way, the struggle to understand the failure of a simple “charity” response to poverty . . . “Instead of closing with a [...]

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Vincentian Blog Action Day

Blogs are a powerful advocacy tool. Blog Action Day was October 15 2008. The topic was poverty. We’re going to work towards a “Vincentian Blog Action Day” on the relationship of educational access to poverty reduction. We’ll be using “Vincent Experience 4” to train folks and learn together. Then we’ll join up with Blog Action [...]

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Successful Pressure Strategy

Oxfam used YouTube to bring Starbucks to the table. they ended up having a YouTube video-dialogue over Starbucks’ attempted trademarking of the name “Sidamo” which is that name of a province where coffee is produced in Ethiopia. Check the rest of this post, watch the video , and learn how you could use the same [...]

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