Vincentian Family Spirituality, Collaboration, Challenges

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Why a family?

Reflections on

context,spirituality,collaboration,

and challenges

3. Method of our response

1. Situation of poverty

2. Heart of our Vincentian

response: Vincentian Spirituality

4. Challenges

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T E X T :

P O V E R T Y I N T H E W O R L

T O D A Y

March 14, 2005 issue

Jeffrey Sachs

Head of Earth Institute – Columbia University (New York)

UNITED NATIONSMillennium DevelopmentGoals

Reduce worldwide povertyinto half by 2015

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T E X T :

T O D A Y

8+ million people die each

year because they are too poor to stay alive

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T E X T :

T O D A Y

1.1 billion people live inextreme poverty

More than 1/6th of the 6 billion

people in the world today

AIDS, drought, isolation, civilwars, government corruption, etc.

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2001: East Asia – 200 M +South Asia – 400 M

+ Africa – 250 M +

Africa: nearly half of its population live inextreme poverty – liveon less than $1 a day

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Suggested means to cutworldwide poverty in half by 2015:

More aid to extremely poor countriesespecially in sub-

saharan Africa; debtrelief; more trade, andnew taxes

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T E X T :

T O D A Y

Is there anything that the VincentianFamily can do in the face of suchextreme need?

What would this (these) be?

How would it (they) be to thoseoffered by other people?

What needs to be done on the short

term as well as the long term inorder to give an effective, long-lasting response?

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T E X T :

T O D A Y

1. What the data imply

The kind of response we give dependson how we view poverty.

Is it evil? Is it something that will always

be with us?

Is it economic?Political?

Social, cultural,moral, or evenspiritual?

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2. Collaboration is the method with

which to address poverty today

Is it to be presumed or encouraged,nay institutionalized?

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T O D A Y

VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY:THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO

THE POOR

1. Vincent de Paul always

looked at the human personas a whole – as much as piritual, moral, as a political, social, culturalentity, with aspirations thatinclude also the economic.

St. Vincent de Paul – Povertyis not the will of God.

It defaces the dignity of every poor person and theimage of God in them.

Gordon Brown - one moralreason for fighting poverty:no child should die if it isavoidable.

THE POOR

2. St. Vincent de Paul -Poverty is also a possible

event of salvation. Vincent saw in the poor the

very person of Christ.

“In the person of the poor,you serve Jesus Christ. . .You serve Christ in the

person of the poor”

THE POOR

3. Vincent experienced how the poor brought him toGod. The poor, to put it in contemporary terms,

evangelized him. “the net result of my experience on the

matter is the judgment I have ever formed, that true religion – true

religion, Gentlemen, is to be foundamong the poor. God enriches themwith a lively faith; they believe, theytouch, they taste the words of life. . .”

THE POOR

We thought we went to help. We ended up receivingmore than we have given.

the poor are an integral part of our Family and not

merely recipients of our benevolence and charity.

THE POOR

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O L L A B O R A T I O

T H E E N G

I N E O F

V I N C E N T I A N

I N I S T R Y

There is need for collaboration all over the world to rally around this project.

The Vincentian Family tries to unite groupstrying to address poverty. But we are not the

only one. There are many others, with whomwe can collaborate, synchronize, network.

Individualcharities andfoundations

would not besufficient.

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V I N C E N T I A N

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Collaboration can make a world of

difference.

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Networking, synergizing, globalcooperation, etc.

Vincent, Louise de Marillac, andOzanam discovered this severalcenturies ago

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AIC: “Against all forms of poverty,we are to act together.”

St. Vincent de Paul:

“Today the poor

continue to multiplyin number, their crygoes up to heaven.God calls us to

serve them, but hewants that we do ittogether.”

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V I N C E N T I A N

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Poverty is a social, political, economicand moral issue.

The only way to fight it and to help the poor is to bring together economists, politicians, and social scientists, religious

men and women, etc.

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Vincentian Family

Collaboration on the international level

On the national level, only in somecountries.

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CHALLENGES OF TODAY

1. Deepen our VincentianSpirituality.

2. To make direct contactwith the poor.

caring presence, andhelp and assistance.

3. To promote formation of directors

4. To intensify collaboration

Appreciate the need today

to coordinate, network, andcollaborate with other government, non-government agencies,

national and internationalorganizations such as theU.N.

CHALLENGES OF TODAY

5. To involve the young

Vincentian Familyfocus: being present to

the world of the youth

International Meeting of the Vincentian Marian

Youth (JMV) – Paris inAugust 2005

CHALLENGES OF TODAY

Vincentian Family Spirituality, Collaboration, Challenges

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