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Why a family?
Reflections on
context, spirituality,collaboration, andchallenges
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3. Method of our response
1. Situation of poverty
2. Heart of our Vincentian
response: Vincentian Spirituality
4. Challenges
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March 14, 2005 issue
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Jeffrey Sachs
Head of Earth Institute Columb
University (New York)
UNITED NATIONS
Millennium Development
Goals
Reduce worldwide poverty
into half by 2015
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8+ million people die each
year because they are toopoor to stay alive
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1.1 billion people live inextreme poverty
More than 1/6th of the 6 billion
people in the world today
AIDS, drought, isolation, civil
wars, government corruption, etc.
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2001: East Asia200 M +
South Asia400 M +
Africa250 M +
Africa: nearly half of its
population live in
extreme povertylive
on less than $1 a day
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Suggested means to cut
worldwide poverty in half by
2015:
More aid to extremely
poor countries
especially in sub-
saharan Africa; debtrelief; more trade, and
new taxes
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Is there anything that the Vincentian
Family can do in the face of such
extreme 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 in order
to give an effective, long-lasting
response?
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1. What the data imply
The kind of response we give depends onhow we view poverty.
Is it evil? Is it something that will always
be with us?
Is it economic?
Political? Social,
cultural, moral,or even
spiritual?
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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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VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY:THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO
THE POOR
1. Vincent de Paul always
looked at the human personas a wholeas much a
spiritual, moral, as a
political, social, culturalentity, with aspirations that
include also the economic.
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St. Vincent de PaulPoverty
is not the will of God.
It defaces the dignity ofevery poor person and the
image of God in them.
Gordon Brown - one moralreason for fighting poverty:
no child should die if it is
avoidable.
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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
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THE POOR
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3. Vincent experienced how the poor brought him to
God. 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 religiontrue religion,
Gentlemen, is to be found among thepoor. God enriches them with a lively
faith; they believe, they touch, they taste
the words of life. . .
VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY:THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO
THE POOR
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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.
VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY:THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO
THE POOR
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There is need for collaboration all over
the world to rally around this project.
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The Vincentian Family tries to unite groups
trying to address poverty. But we are not the
only one. There are many others, with whom wecan collaborate, synchronize, network.
Individual
charities and
foundations
would not besufficient.
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Collaboration can make a world of
difference.
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Networking, synergizing, global
cooperation, etc.
Vincent, Louise de Marillac, and
Ozanam discovered this several
centuries 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 cry
goes up to heaven.
God calls us to serve
them, but he wants
that we do it
together.
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Poverty is a social, political, economic
and 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 some
countries.
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CHALLENGES OF TODAY
1. Deepen our VincentianSpirituality.
2. To make direct contactwith the poor.
caring presence, and
help and assistance.
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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 the
U.N.
CHALLENGES OF TODAY
CHALLENGES OF TODAY
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5. To involve the young
Vincentian Family
focus: being present to
the world of the youth
International Meeting of
the Vincentian Marian
Youth (JMV)Paris inAugust 2005
CHALLENGES OF TODAY