VIE - Vincentian Integration Experience - 2009

What is the Vincentian Integration Experience (VIE)?

VIE is a Vincentian Integration Experience, both in content and in community living, intended to prepare Sisters to share the charism in their local community, their province and with lay collaborators. It is not an academic course or a personal enrichment program, although both elements are an outgrowth.

Overall Aim

The overall aim of the Experience is to provide the opportunity for participants to: • Deepen their knowledge of the Vincentian spirit and charism in order to communicate them to others. • Integrate their learning into their personal and communal spirituality; • Develop skills and materials needed to eventually share the fruits of this experience with their individual ministries, their provinces, members of the Vincentian Family and lay associates. • Appreciate more deeply the role of the Daughters of Charity in a globalized society; • Serve as active, contributing members of the VIE’s international learning-living community, based on the values and spirit of the Constitutions. • Commit to ongoing Vincentian learning and formation after the Experience is completed.

Criteria for Selecting Participants

• Emotional stability • Spiritually integrated/visionary • Collaborative/relational/communication skills • Credibility/maturity • Capacity to learn and share the learning • Ability and willingness to apply learning • Commitment to living the Vincentian charism in community. • Sufficient health for full participation and be between 40-55 years of age.

Processes

An adult learning model is used throughout the VIE. The following formative elements characterize each Module:

• Input from Presenters
• Prayer
• Personal Study
• Reflection and Integration
• Assignments
• Community living
• Discussion
• Retreat Days
• Development of Presentations
• Annual Retreat
• Evaluations

Time Frame

October 1, 2009 – June 25, 2010

The Five Modules

The program is developed in five modules and various workshops. Each Module carries out the aims described above. Specific objectives reflect each Module’s focus.

The five (5) Modules and workshops are planned to bring breadth and depth to the Sisters’ understanding of the charism and its development across the centuries into today’s realities.

Modules

• Module 1: The World and Persons of St. Vincent and St. Louise
• Module 2: Development of the Company’s Identity and Its Constitutions
• Module 3: Fundamental Virtues, Vows, Call to be Servants
• Module 4: Holiness in the Vincentian Tradition
• Module 5: The Charism and Catholic Social Thought in an Age of Globalization

Workshops

• Communication
• Art as a Way of Ministry and Personal Integration
• Use of Vincentian Resources on the Internet for Ministry and Research

Structure of VIE

Trustees: Visitatrixes of the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Group of Provinces

Executive Director: Sr. Margaret Barrett, DC Executive Assistant: Sr. Marie Poole, DC

Program Advisor: Sr. Margaret John Kelly, DC

Coordinator: Sr. Alicia Martin, DC Assistant: Sr. Mary Louise Yeend, DC

Resources Fundamental to the Study of All Five Modules

Books

Calvet, Jean. Louise de Marillac, Geoffrey Chapman, London, 1959. __________. Vincent de Paul. London: Burnes Oates, 1952. Charpy, Elisabeth, - A Way to Holiness, Company of the Daughters of Charity, Dublin, undated. Circular Letters of Suzanne Guillemin, 1963-1968. Coste, Pierre. Life and Works of Saint Vincent de Paul, 3 volumes, New Rochelle, NY: New City Press, 1987. ____________ Vincent de Paul, Correspondence, Conferences, Documents, 15 volumes, trans. and ed. Sr. Marie Poole, DC, New Rochelle, NY: New City Press, 1985-2009. Delarue, Jacques. The Faith of St. Vincent, Sydney: Alan Johns Pty, Ltd, 1979. De Marillac, Louise. Spiritual Writings, trans. and ed. Sr. Louise Sullivan, DC, New Rochelle, NY: New City Press, 1991. Dirvin, Joseph I. Louise de Marillac, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. Dodin, André. Vincent de Paul and Charity, New Rochelle, NY: New City Press, 1993. Editorial Committee. Like a Great Fire, Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 1995. Flinton, Margaret. Saint Louise de Marillac: Social Aspects of her Work, New Rochelle, NY, New City Press, 1992. Genesis of the Company 1633-1968, two volumes and a supplement. Emmitsburg, MD: Saint Joseph’s Provincial House Press, 1973. Gobillon, Monsieur. The Life of Mademoiselle Le Gras, Foundress and First Superior of the Company of the Daughters of Charity, Servants of the Sick Poor. London: Sisters of Charity Provincial House, 1984. LaFleur, Kathryn B. A Light in the Darkness, New Rochelle, NY: New City Press, 1996. Maloney, Robert. Seasons in Spirituality, New Rochelle, NY: New City Press, 1998. _____________. Seeds of Hope: Stories of Systemic Change. St. Louis: Vincentian Family Commission for Promoting Systemic Change, 2008. Mezzadri, Luigi, A Short Life of Saint Vincent de Paul, Dublin: Columba, 1992. Purcell, Mary. The World of Monsieur Vincent, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1963. Pujo, Bernard. Vincent de Paul: The Trailblazer, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. Regnault, Vincent. Saint Louise de Marillac, Servant of the Poor. Rockford, IL: Tan Books, 1983. Roman, José María. St Vincent de Paul: A Biography. London: Melisende,1999. Ryan, Frances and John E. Rybolt. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac: Rules, Conferences, and Writings. New York: Paulist Press, 1995. Rybolt, John E. In the Footsteps of Vincent de Paul, A Guide to Vincentian France, Chicago: De Paul University Press, 2007.

Foundational Documents New American Bible. Documents of Vatican II and other relevant Church documents Common Rules of the Daughters of Charity Constitutions of the Daughters of Charity Final Documents of the General Assemblies

Websites www.daughter-of-charity.org www.famvin.org www.filles-de-la-charite.org www.depauluniversity.edu

Periodicals Colloque, Journal of the Irish Province of the Congregation of the Mission Echoes of the Company of the Daughters of Charity, Paris, FRANCE Vincentian Heritage Journal, Vincentian Studies Institute, Chicago, IL Vincentiana, Curia Generalitia, Rome, ITALY Oceania Vincentian, Journal of the Australian Province of the Congregation of the Mission.

Chicago Contact Information Clarification or further information may be obtained from the Coordinator.

Sr. Alicia Martin, DC sraliciamartin347@gmail.com 5526 N. Magnolia Ave. 773-334-0655 (house) Chicago, IL 60640