Recent
Events
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September 29, 2012 - 11th Annual University Service Day
- May 16, 2012 - VMC Heritage Trip to Germantown, PA
- April 18, 2012 - Lunch & Learn: The Vincentian Legacy
Continues - Blessed Rosalie Rendu, D.C. & Blessed Frederic
Ozanam. Presentation by Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M.
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March 13, 2012 - Vincentian Center for Church &
Society, Lunch & Learn Series: St. Louise & the
Human Rights Tradition.
- December 14, 2012 - Lunch & Learn: Understanding
Poverty from the Inside Out. Presentation by Dale
Williams.
- December
2011 - Community Service: St. John's Bread & Life Soup
Kitchen's Sponsor A Family.
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November 1, 2011 - VMC Heritage Trip to Germantown, PA
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September 30, 2011 - Special Blessing of the VMC and Lunch
& Learn: Living the Vincentian Mission. Presentation by Fr.
Robert Maloney, C.M.
- September
24, 2011 - 10th Annual University Service Day
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September 16, 2011 - Opening Session and Welcome Dinner for VMC
Cohort 5
- August 24, 2011 - VMC Paris Reunion Dinner
- July -
August 2010 - VMC Heritage Trip to Paris, France
Saturday, September 29, 2012: Over 1,400
volunteers served those in need throughout all five boroughs of New
York City, and abroad in Rome, Paris and Seville. The 11th annual
University Service Day marked the culmination of Founder's Week
2012. In honor of St. Vincent de Paul and his
commitment to the poor, students, faculty, staff and alumni
performed service at over one hundred sites. The St. John's
volunteers served meals in soup kitchens, visited the
elderly in nursing homes, tutored children, cleaned parks,
refurbished and painted community centers.
Read the full story.
View the picture gallery.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012: Past and current
members of the Vincentian Mission Certificate (VMC) Program
recently participated in a day long heritage trip to Germantown,
PA. The trip included visits to four local organizations that serve
the poor, disenfranchised and marginalized in Germantown (Face to
Face, Inn Dwelling, My Place Germantown and DePaul House).
Representatives from each of the local outreach programs shared
insights into their programs and their connection to the Vincentian
Mission. Additionally, the group toured historic Vincentian
heritage sites in Germantown, including the Miraculous Medal
Shrine, a Catholic landmark and place of pilgrimage visited by
thousands of people every year, and St. Vincent's Church. Before
returning to New York, the VMC participants had the unique
opportunity to have dinner at The Mate's Inn in Trenton, NJ. The
facility is a culinary arts vocational program for incarcerated
indivduals, run by the Education Department of the Garden State
Correctional Facility, and the inmates enrolled in the program
prepared a delicious meal that was enjoyed by the participants of
the VMC Heritage Trip.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012: Members of the present cohort of the
Vincentian Mission Certificate (VMC) Program and VMC alumni
attended a Lunch and Learn lecture by Fr. Robert Maloney, C.M., St.
John's University's Vincentian Chair of Social Justice. Fr. Maloney
examined the roles of Blessed Rosalie Rendu, D.C. and Blessed
Frederic Ozanam, and their connection to service and scholarship at
St. John's University today. The attendees were able to gain a
deeper understanding of the expansion of the Vincentian family
through the work of these two remarkable individuals, as Fr.
Maloney identified the various areas through which the legacies of
Rosalie Rendu and Frederick Ozanam serve as an inspiration for us
today.
Friday, April 13 and 20, 2012: A number of VMC
participants, both present and alumni, participated in the seventh
annual Relay for Life walkathons at both the Queens and Staten
Island campuses. This is the first year that the Staten Island
campus hosted the Relay at the Staten Island Campus Center Gym.
Current and former VMC members participated along with hundreds of
students, faculty and staff members and University administrators
in the all-night walkathon in an effort at raising money to fight
cancer.
Read the full story.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012: Past and current
members of the VMC program attended the Lunch & Learn
Series: St. Louise & the Human Rights
Tradition, which was hosted by the Vincentian Center for
Church & Society. Sr. Margaret John Kelly, D.C. discussed the
significant contributions of St. Louise de Marillac in the area of
human rights, particularly her efforts to uphold the rights of the
abandoned infants, galley slaves, and the poor in 16th century
France.
View the photo gallery.
Wednesday, December 14,
2011: Current and former members of the VMC program
attended the Lunch & Learn
Series: Understanding Homelessness, A Personal Journey,
hosted by the Office of the University Mission. The audience
also included students and administrators from a variety of
departments on campus. Dale Williams, the Executive Director for
Midnight Run Inc., talked about his experiences as a formerly
homeless individual in New York City from 1987 till 1990. Mr.
Williams went on to manage Midnight Run in 1991, and has been
serving the organization since then. His presentation was followed
by a Q&A session with the audience asking questions about
homelessness and opportunities to assist with the organization's
efforts. For more information about Midnight Runs, visit their website.
To learn more view these basic
facts about homelessness in New York City.
December 2011 Sponsor a Family
Program:Several current and alumni VMC members
participated in the Sponsor a Family Program at the St. John’s
Bread and Life Soup Kitchen in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
Volunteers serve over 2,000 families and bring warm winter gear to
over 1,000 individuals through this annual program. View
photos and video clip.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011:VMC 5
members Paolo Tagatac, Krista Walker and Charissa Townsend joined
VMC alumni Kathy Meehan (VMC 1), Frank LeVeness (VMC 1) and Stephen
Rzonca (VMC 2) in accompanying 26 Ozanam Scholar undergraduate
students on a Vincentian Heritage Trip to Germantown,
Pennsylvania.
Read the full story.
Friday, September 30,
2011: Following a week of events and programs
celebrating the 18th annual St. John’s University
Founder’s Week, the Vincentian Mission Certification (VMC) Lunch
and Learn Series featured the program, The Spirituality of St.
Vincent de Paul, on Friday, September 30, 2011. The program
was presented by Rev. Robert P. Maloney, C.M., St. John’s
University Vincentian Chair for Social Justice, and was attended by
current VMC members and VMC Alumni.
Read the full story.
Saturday, September 24, 2011:
VMC 5 members and VMC alumni participated in the
10th annual University Service Day by serving those in
need at a number of sites throughout New York City, including local
soup kitchens, nursing homes, schools and non-profit organizations.
Read the full story.
Friday, September 16,
2011: The fifth cohort of the Vincentian
Mission Certificate (VMC) Program commenced their sixteen-month
journey with the VMC Opening Session and
Welcome Dinner, on September 16, 2011. Lucy
Pesce, Executive Director for Mission, assisted Fr. Kettelberger in
helping the cohort u nderstand the expectations and resources
available to them as they journey together through the VMC
program. The highlight of the evening followed the
orientation session, when several VMC Alumni from the previous four
cohorts joined the newest members for a celebration dinner.
Read the full story.
VMC Heritage Trip to Paris, France
(July/August 2010): Graduates of the Vincentian Mission
Certificate Program deepened their understanding of St. John’s
Vincentian heritage during a special trip to Paris. There they
literally followed in the footsteps of Vincent de Paul, Louise de
Marillac, Frederic Ozanam and other major figures in the Vincentian
family. It was especially significant in this 350th anniversary
year of the deaths of Vincent and Louise. The tour gave VMC
participants the opportunity to experience the heart of the
Vincentian charism by visiting sacred sites where Vincent, Louise
and others conducted their ministry and from where the Congregation
of the Mission and Daughters of Charity sprang.
Read the full story. View the picture
gallery.