Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q nd Q Q Q OUR 2 Q Q Q Q IBOOK Q Q Q Q Q Q ISSUE Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q VINCENTIAN VOL. 32 NO. 2 2015 HERITAGE VINCENTIAN HERITAGE Table of Contents Contributors to this Issue Vincent de Paul: What Moved Him? And What Moved Him Toward Those Who Are Poor? THOmaS MCKENNA, C.M. The Ecological Spirituality of Elizabeth Ann Seton SUNG-HAE Kim, S.C. Eight American Daughters of Charity and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in Jiangxi Province, 1928-1930 LawRENCE F. ASma, C.M. The Epiphany of Yvaral’s St. Vincent Portrait BRO. MARK EldER, C.M. Antique Polychromy Applied to Modern Art and Hittorff’s Saint Vincent de Paul in Paris, the Architectural Showpiece of the Renouveau Catholique MICHAEL KIENE, PH.D. The Future of the Vincentian Charism in the United States: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities SCOtt KEllEY, PH.D., AND JESSICA WERNER, PH.D. Newsnotes Contributors to this Issue REV. LAWRENCE F. ASMA, C.M., is a Vincentian priest who holds the degrees Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Sacred Scripture magna cum laude, and Master of Arts in English Literature. Rev. Asma has taught theology and served as spiritual director in college-level seminaries in the U.S. and abroad. For many years he served the mentally ill as a board-certified chaplain in psychiatric hospitals. He is currently an associate member of the Catholic Biblical Association and a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, and also serves as a chaplain to the Daughters of Charity. Before joining the Congregation of the Mission he was by turns a journalist, a sailor, and a novice monk. BRO. MARK ELDER, C.M., has been painting and creating murals since 1985. Largely self-taught as an artist, Bro. Mark had his first professional show in 1986. He went on to receive academic training, first earning an M.A. from Fontebonne College, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1991, and then an M.F.A. from Denver University in 1994. Since 1994 he has taught Art and Mural painting at DePaul University, Chicago, where he currently serves as Instructor and Service Learning Art Coordinator. Bro. Mark has permanent commissioned murals around the U.S. and in Rome, Italy. He is particularly fond of murals, believing they are of more service to all people, and not just a select few, and for this reason he favors the Aristotelian/narrative tradition in his painting. His work utilizes exploratory design respectful of the Platonic value in art, and features both abstract elements, and non-traditional materials. Bro. Mark’s works can be viewed online at: http://condor.depaul.edu/melder SCOTT P. KELLEY, Ph.D., is Assistant Vice-President for Vincentian Scholarship in the Office of Mission and Values and Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. He teaches courses in Vincentian Heritage, systemic change, and business ethics. Prior to his time in Mission and Values, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department and Research Fellow for the Institute of Business and Professional Ethics. He received a Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Loyola University Chicago in 2006. He co-authored the book Alleviating Poverty through Profitable Partnerships: Globalization, Markets, and Economic Well-Being (2009), and has written articles on the for-profit contribution to the alleviation of poverty and the principle of subsidiarity in poverty alleviation efforts. MICHAEL KIENE, Ph.D., is currently a Professor at the Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne). He received his doctorate from the University of Muenster in 1981. Honors include serving as Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertiana, Rome, from 1984-1986; Visiting Fellow at the National Gallery of Art, Center of Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington, D.C., in 2007; and again as Visiting Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art, Center of Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts in fall of 2013. Publications include the books Die Alben von Jakob Ignaz Hittorff, Die italienische Reise 1822-1824 (Paris - Rom) [2012]; Die Alben von Jean-François-Joseph Lecointe (1783-1858): Architekturen, Skizzen und Visionen [2005]; and the article “Ein halbes Jahrtausend Bibliotheken in Italiens Universitäten,” published in Bibliothek und Wissenschaft 42 [2009]. SISTER SUNG-HAE KIM, S.C., is a professor emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies, Sogang University in Seoul, Korea. Sister Sung-Hae presently serves as a General Superior for the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill at the Generalate in Chicago. After entering the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill in 1965, Sister made her final vows in 1972. She went on to earn her Th.D. in the History of Religions from Harvard University in 1981. Kim has had numerous articles published, including “The Charism of Charity in East Asian Culture: Reinterpretation of the Spirit Of Simplicity, Humility, and Charity” in Vincentian Heritage 18:2, and has authored the books Understanding the History of Religion; Primitive Confucianism: A Hermeneutical Approach to the Analects, Mencius, Hsun Tzu; and The Gourd and the Cross: Daoism and Christianity in Dialogue (Three Pines Press, 2014). She also served as co- editor for Monasticism, Buddhist and Christian: The Korean Experience (2008). Continued REV. THOMAS F. MCKENNA, C.M., has been a member of the Congregation of the Mission since 1963. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended schools there, in New Jersey, and in Pennsylvania until his ordination in 1970. He received an M.A. in Philosophy from St. John’s University in 1973 and a Th.M. from Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northampton, Pennsylvania in 1974. He spent fifteen years in seminary work including time as Director of Novices for the Eastern Province of the Vincentians and also rector of their college seminary. In 1982 he earned a Doctorate in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America. For ten years he taught Spirituality as a tenured member of the Department of Theology of St. John’s University. Rev. McKenna has published a book on Vincent de Paul, articles in various theological journals, and has been involved in retreat work nationally and internationally, especially within the Vincentian Family. For twenty years he was part of his Congregation’s leadership on its Provincial Council. He served as Assistant Provincial for three of those years and then for nine more as Provincial Superior. In 2008, he taught Christology at Tangaza University in Nairobi, Kenya, and after that instructed in the theology department at Niagara University. While at Niagara, he also served two years as Associate Director of University Mission. He has served on a number of foundation and university boards, including those of DePaul, Niagara, and St. John’s. Since 2012, he has served as Provincial Director of the St. Louise Province of the Daughters of Charity, and he currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri. JESSICA WERNER, Ph.D., is the Director of the Vincentian Lay Missionaries and is an adjunct professor of education at the College of St. Scholastica. She holds a doctorate in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota. Back to CONtENt S 1 Vincent de Paul: What Moved Him? And What Moved Him Toward Those Who Are Poor? THOMAS F. MCKENNA, C.M. Q Q QQ Q QQ QQ Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q next BACK TO CONTENTS Q Q Q Q Q Q article Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q here are few questions more mystifying than those about motivation: what is it that moves people to do what they do? Things become doubly mysterious when T looking at the reasons for the wider patterns that flow through a life. Why go in this direction and not that? With that in mind let us shine a light into the shadow land of motivations that drove Saint Vincent de Paul. I’ll begin by telling you something of my own history that leads into our question. Ever since boyhood, I’ve been attracted to stories of great people. I remember reading simple biographies of Davey Crockett, Abraham Lincoln, Abigail Adams — then, as the years went by, of Harry Truman, Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington, Catherine the Great and many more. For a long time I could not tell you why I was attracted to the stories of these luminaries. I just knew I liked the accounts of their lives, that I was drawn to and even fascinated by their biographies. One day I came across a fable that helped me understand this attraction. From the Hindu tradition, it zeroed in on a conversation between a villager who lived in a remote section of India and a traveling holy man. The conversation turned out to be what today we would call a game-changer in the life of the villager. The holy one had reached the outskirts of the village and settled down under a tree for the night when a villager came running up to him and said, “The stone! The stone! Give me the precious stone!” “What stone?” asked the holy one. “Last night the Lord Shiva appeared to me in a dream,” said the villager, “and told me that if I went to the outskirts of the village at dusk I should find a holy one who would give me a precious stone that would make me rich forever.” The holy one rummaged in his bag and pulled out a stone. “He probably meant this,” he said, as he handed the stone over to the villager.