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Christmas 2016 Society of St Vincent Ozanamde Paul, Scotland News SPACE PROJECT Help and hope for Roma people in Glasgow TEARS OF HAPPINESS Furniture project delivers SMILE! Conference ssvpscotland.com picture special Find us on Facebook and Twitter I am sending you two Cover image: St Vincent de Paul. young men... COUNCIL OF SCOTLAND How a letter from a French SR AGNES MCGARVIE Catholic newspaper editor to National Spiritual Adviser a nun proved pivotal to the JAMES MCKENDRICK National President foundation of the Society of Trustee St Vincent de Paul... VACANT National Treasurer Trustee same day. Vincent came quickly the 400th anniversary of the birth RICHARD STEINBACH Smiles at annual to understand that the love of God of our charism. It was by Divine Trustee compelled him to love the poor Providence that the charism – service St Andrews & Edinburgh national conference deeply and to serve them for the rest in the manner of Jesus Christ and CHRISTINE GRAY of his life. service to the person of Jesus Christ Trustee Picture special, p8-9 Realising from the outset the in those who are poor – was nurtured Glasgow enormity of this task, Vincent called by members of the Confraternities of a meeting of those charitable ladies Charity (Vincent founded more than MICHAEL DOWDS Trustee GET INVOLVED! We want to in the subject bar and your full to determine the best way to help the 80 in all). Paisley know what your conference contact details. Please provide By National President, poor and the sick of the parish. It was also assisted by the Priests is up to. If you have a story, full caption details for photos. Jim McKendrick They agreed to form The of the Congregation of the Mission, JOHN JOYCE share it. The Ozanam News Please note, we do not accept Confraternity of Charity. Its motto the Daughters of Charity and by the Trustee relies on your contributions. paper submissions. Articles was either “Blessed are the merciful, members of the Society of St Vincent Dunkeld Send articles and images should be written by email or N the first day of August as my Father is merciful” or “For I de Paul, in 1833. ELIZABETH HERLIHY (jpg or png format only, no attached as a Word document. 1617, Vincent de Paul was was hungry and you gave me to eat.” Trustee PDFs) to communication@ If you need help or have a installed as Parish Priest in By providence, Vincent moved to a UST as a series of coincidences Aberdeen ssvpscotland.com. Simply put query please contact editor Matt Othe poor, rural parish of Châtillon poor, rural parish. He became acutely (or was it Divine Providence?) the name of your conference Meade on 07985 592920. and left his “dignified life” as aware of the plight of the poor and brought Vincent de Paul to a JOE MAC EACHAN chaplain to the de Gondi family was moved by compassion to seek to Jpoor parish, so a similar scenario Trustee Motherwell/VIP The national office has launched a new website to raise awareness of and tutor to their children. serve them. was at work in the founding of our the Society and to offer helpful resource to members.Visit the Members’ Less than three weeks later, as Next year, 2017, the whole Society. VACANT section, to find practical and spiritual resources, such as reflections to use at he was vesting for Mass, he was Vincentian Family will celebrate In 1831 Frederic Ozanam had come Galloway meetings, at www.ssvpscotland.com told about a family who lived in an to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. IAN TIERNEY isolated house in the parish, who By chance he happened to meet were all sick, and therefore unable to At a meeting of Emmanuel Bailly, a former professor Twinning Projects Publishing Policy 1. The objective is to publish a new Ozanam News, which will be issued three times per help each other. the Conference, who was now owner and editor of year, May, September and November. To facilitate this, a publications committee has been “It moved me to the depths of my a prominent Paris newspaper, La formed and a member of the National Council has been made responsible for its operation. The publications committee will normally meet two months before going to the printer. As at heart. I did not fail to speak feelingly a remark by Tribune Catholique. The Society of St Vincent de Paul present, the actual putting together of the magazine will be the responsibility of the National about them during the sermon, and Bailly encouraged and supported Office staff, who will select the printer and liaise and coordinate with all preproduction Jean Broet was National office: functions. 2. In accordance with National Council requirements, the intention will be not to God, touching the hearts of those Frederic in his early writing career 2nd floor, feature ‘editorial’ pieces. Any material deemed to detract from the Society’s broader aims who were listening, caused them all overheard by and published his first efforts. 113 West Regent Street will be approved by the National Council prior to publication. Hopefully these arrangements Glasgow G2 2RU will help the new Ozanam News develop into a more humorous, educational and spiritual to be moved to compassion for the Frederic and his At Bailly’s house, Frederic met Tel: 0141 226 8833 publication which will concentrate on bringing the Society, its Members and Associates closer poor afflicted people.” and befriended some of the young email: [email protected] together. With this Togetherness in mind, National Council Agenda business could well become a regular feature in the magazine. In the main, letters for publication will normally We know that his compassion led friends: “Where students who were lodging in two Ozanam News Editor: Matt Meade be from twinning parties - regarded as reports. Other letters will be accepted for publication to immediate action, because many houses owned by Bailly which [email protected] with an added footnote or returned for discussion by the respective council and/or president if are the works that thought to be more appropriate. people (particularly ladies) went to the assistance of the family that prove your faith?” Continued... “ OZANAM NEWS I 3 Youth (...cont) and vouchers for food and clothing. They also donated provided a safe environment from the funds contributed and a Catholic ethos. by members at the weekly In 1832, Frederic along conference meetings (the birth with five friends, started the of the secret collection). Harvest time for Mini Vinnies Conference of History. Most importantly, she At a meeting of the shared with them her deep UPILS at St Conference, a remark by conviction of how the poor Margaret’s Jean Broet was overheard should be served. In due PPrimary by Frederic and his friends: course, the other members School in “Where are the works that Galashiels prove your faith?”. were delighted Frederic felt urged to to kick-off their respond and on 23rd April Mini Vinnies 1833, in Bailly’s office at La Sister Rosalie group with a Tribune, the first meeting of harvest festival the Conference of Charity was selected with collection. held. care the poor Working with local SSVP member Later, Ozanam would families for Dr John Tucker, they organised the write to him: “You have so appeal, which was distributed to accustomed us to look upon Ozanam and the people that the Conference of you as the rallying point, the Taillandier to Our Lady & St Andrew’s provide adviser and friend of young assistance to. Christian youth.” visit ... and Clare Carr Cullen, the SSVP’s Bailly, as a young man shared her deep National Youth Development Officer, just happened to have said: “The project was well supported been a seminarian of the conviction of by the whole school community, and Congregation of the Mission how the poor they are looking to their next venture, at Amiens (where his uncle should be visiting older people in sheltered had been the Superior and housing accommodation.” happened to have retained his served. Mini Vinnies groups are starting devotion to St Vincent). He in schools, thanks to the assistance had also named his first son also participated in visits to of SSVP members. If you would be Vincent de Paul Bailly. It is struggling families. interested in finding out more, please not surprising that he directed From Sr Rosalie and the contact Clare on 0141 226 8833 or these young men towards the other Daughters of Charity, email [email protected] service of the poor! the young men learned Bailly and his wife, Marie, Vincentian values and the happened to be friendly spirit and ethos of service of Kids are clued-up on with a Daughter of Charity, those in need. Sister Rosalie Rendu. She Rosalie taught them that worked with the poor in the “love is your first gift to the running a conference poorest district of Paris, the poor”. In 1834, a proposal SCHOOLS from across the country have attended Mouffetard, a short distance to place the Conference of the Voice of the Poor conference - a two day, from the Sorbonne. Charity under the patronage residential course. A chance remark about of St Vincent de Paul was The aim is to prepare third-year pupils who are young men being needed “accepted, and our society joining a Youth SSVP group at school. to visit the families of poor was born. Like Vincent Clare Carr Cullen, National Youth Development workers led Emmanuel Bailly in Châtillon, the hearts Officer, said: “By the end of the two days at to take pivotal action. He of these young men were the Conforti Institute, we wanted them to leave wrote to Sister Rosalie: “I touched – and the Vincentian with the confidence and motivation to help their am sending you two young charism was reawakened and communities in the name Christ, through St Vincent men, M.