{"title":"La comunicación desde Fratelli TuttiLa vida es el arte del encuentro, aunque haya tanto desencuentro por la vida","authors":"Jorge Luis Rodríguez Baquero","doi":"10.35312/qjjz5523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35312/qjjz5523","url":null,"abstract":"Pope Francis is always mindful of the value of communication. He is aware of the fact that there is a need to avoid a form of communication that is simply instrumental and that does not contribute to the development and strengthening of the community. We need to recognize how social networks, on the one hand, help us to better connect, rediscover, and assist one another. In Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis also refers to the theme of technology but focuses on the need to be attentive to this matter. We can have good technology and new updated mobile devices; we can have excellent internet connections, and yet all of those realities do not guarantee good communication. In fact, with all of those factors in place we could still be isolated: Today we can recognize that “we fed ourselves on dreams of splendor and grandeur, and ended up consuming distraction, insularity and solitude” (FT, 33). T he encyclical also reminds us of the reality that in order to accomplish our mission in an effective manner, we must enter into a dynamic of true dialogue; that is, dialogue within our community, dialogue with reality, and dialogue with the poor whom we serve.","PeriodicalId":517231,"journal":{"name":"Studia Vincentiana","volume":"102 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140457030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revitalizing the Vincentian Identity in the Context of Mission Ad Gentes","authors":"Anil Thomas Karackavayalil","doi":"10.35312/m0ya2d84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35312/m0ya2d84","url":null,"abstract":"Evangelization of the poor was the primary concern of Vincent de Paul and his companions. The Second Vatican Council recaptured the missionary spirit of the early Church and stated that the pilgrim Church is “missionary by its very nature”. The Church is born out of the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit sent by the Father. From the very beginning of the Congregation of the Mission, St. Vincent de Paul and his companions were simply called “Fathers of the Mission.” That means, as our Superior General Fr. Tomaž Mavrič pointed out, from the very beginning there was “a sense of dynamism, movement, going to the peripheries, not being caught in a state of stagnation” in our DNA. During the 43rd General Assembly, the members of the Congregation of the Mission committed themselves to support the Mission ad Gentes effort and reiterated the resolved to set apart at least one percent of confreres to this mission every year and strengthened their commitment to bring the Gospel to all people. Mission and evangelisation in this sense is one of the fundamental qualities of the Congregation of the Mission. Without recapturing this original spirit of “being sent to the nations,” we cannot attain a complete and meaningful revitalisation of our Vincentian identity.","PeriodicalId":517231,"journal":{"name":"Studia Vincentiana","volume":"92 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139894431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El futuro de la Congregación de la MisiónEn Camino con Vicente de Paúl hacia el V Centenario","authors":"G. Campuzano","doi":"10.35312/25pvdy55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35312/25pvdy55","url":null,"abstract":"The worldly context of today is a place and time wherein what we need to do seems more significant than our capacity and commitment. The future of the Congregation of the Mission has always been in the hands of God’s loving providence. Entering the fifth centenary of the Congregation of the Mission is an opportunity to intuit where the Spirit will take humanity, the Church, the Vincentian Family, and our Congregation. In this space of vital discernment, the Congregation of the Mission and its charism has not reached an end. Our creativity is not exhausted, but we must renew ways of living our charism. Today we must give birth to these ideas. Our confidence is based upon the common knowledge expressed within our constitutions. Our constitutions are interested in the person of Jesus, and the centrality of the Kingdom was the engine of his earthly existence. The Revitalization and future of the Congregation is not an Escape from the “festival of uncertainties” of history. With Jesus, we have to walk through in the certainty of His divine providence.","PeriodicalId":517231,"journal":{"name":"Studia Vincentiana","volume":"52 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139894306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}