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Why a family?
Reflections on
context,spirituality,collaboration,
and challenges
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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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Jeffrey Sachs
Head of Earth Institute – Columbia University (New York)
UNITED NATIONSMillennium DevelopmentGoals
Reduce worldwide povertyinto half by 2015
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8+ million people die each
year because they are too poor 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, 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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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. . .”
VINCENTIAN SPIRITUALITY:THE HEART OF OUR SERVICE TO
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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.
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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 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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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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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.
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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 theU.N.
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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