August Meeting Recap

Hi Connect!

It has been busy this past month, I apologize for sending out last month's recap today, the day of our September meeting. =)

Volunteer opportunities we discussed: Birthday Box, Habitat of Humanity, Cocoon House, senior citizen assisted living

Social events: Sounders game, college or pro football game, musical, concerts, Bubble Run

Cy led the discussion on St. Vincent de Paul.

St. Vincent was born in 1581 in Gascony, in the Province of  Guyenne and Gascony, the Kingdom of France, to a family of peasant farmers. He was ordained in 1600 at the age of nineteen. In 1605, on his way back from Marseille, he was taken captive by Barbary pirates, who brought him to Tunis. De Paul was auctioned off as a slave to the highest bidder, and spent two years in bondage.

In 1617, De Paul founded the "Ladies of Charity" from a group of women within his parish. He organized these wealthy women of Paris to collect funds for missionary projects, found hospitals, and gather relief funds for the victims of war and to ransom 1,200 galley slaves from North Africa.

After working for some time in Paris among imprisoned galley-slaves, he returned to be the leader of what is now known as the Congregation of the Mission, or the "Vincentians". These priests, with vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and stability, were to devote themselves entirely to the people in smaller towns and villages.

 Vincent lived to be eighty. He was canonized by Pope Clement XII in 1737, and was named patron of all charitable societies by Pope Leo XIII in 1885. His feast day is September 27.

St. Vincent de Paul is the patron of all works of charity. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a charitable organization dedicated to the service of the poor, was established by French university students in 1833, led by the Blessed Frederic Ozanam. The Society is today present in 132 countries.
(wikipedia)
Thank you Cy for the information. I did not know his charitable organization has been around for 180 years! I'm happy our group has chosen to help with this organization every year with the Thanksgiving baskets. 

I read in our parish bulletin, SVDP is in need of a few things: canned tuna, canned fruit, peanut butter, jelly, canned soup, macaroni and cheese. If you can pick up a few of these things on your way to the meeting tonight and drop it off in the vestibule bin marked SVDP, greatly appreciated! Or you can drop it off any time.

We ended the meeting in quiet prayer in the Chapel.

See you tonight, 9/10, in the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's youth room at 7 PM! It was hard for me to decide on one topic for today. I prayed for help, and I think I'm being led to discuss evangelization or new evangelization. =)

God Bless,
Reggie