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Prayer Resources here

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Asian Continental Meeting on Systemic Change

Seventy-three delegates from 15 countries representing 12 branches of the Vincentian family gathered in Bangkok to focus on systemic change and how the Vincentian Family can promote long-term solutions...full story

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Systemic Change: Sowing Seeds of Hope - Vincentian Family Gathering

The speakers challenged us to look beyond our comfort zone, to embrace a new paradigm and new possibilities to better meet the needs of people living in poverty...full story on page 7

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Who Knows Tomorrow?

A new exhibit titled "Who Knows Tomorrow?" tells the stories of extremely neglected and rejected people from seven countries and how the Daughters of Charity work to assist them...full story

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Vincentian Marian Youth Seeing Christ in Our Neighbors

For a fifth consecutive year, the missionaries of VMF's "Operation Overhaul"...full story

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Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters
in America

Learn more about an exhibit highlighting the rich history and contributions of Catholic sisters in the United States...full story

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Systemic Change

 

What is systemic change?

Systemic Change in works among those living in poverty aims beyond providing food, clothing and shelter to alleviate immediate needs, and enables people themselves to engage in the identification of the root causes of their poverty and to create strategies to change those structures which keep them in poverty. This also requires changing attitudes that have caused the problem.

 

"Social thinking and social practice inspired by the Gospel must always be marked by a special sensitivity towards those who are most in distress, those who are extremely poor, those suffering...from hunger, neglect, unemployment and despair. You will also want to seek out the structural reasons which foster or cause the different forms of poverty in the world and in your own country, so that you can apply the appropriate remedies."

Pope John Paul II, New York, 1979

 

Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change

"Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change" presents examples of systemic change projects and descriptions of strategies to promote systemic change. The Vincentian Family's Commission for Promoting Systemic Change, coordinated by Fr. Robert Maloney, Congregation of the Mission (CM), wrote the book and has since promoted continental meetings worldwide to educate members of the Vincentian Family and prepare trainers on systemic change who bring the effort to local ministries.

"Seeds of Hope" offers the following ideas describing systemic change:

• Systemic change aims at transforming a complete series of interacting elements
• It requires changing attitudes that have caused the problem.
• It interprets a group's experience of a system and promotes structural change from within.
• Its aim is to create a more just social system, thus enabling people to emerge from poverty.

 

 

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