September 27 is the feast day of St. Vincent dePaul, the patron Saint of many charitable works. The Society is an international Catholic organization of laypersons who seek, in a spirit of justice and charity, and through person-to-person involvement, to help those in need.
The Society was founded in 1833 by Frederic Oznam, a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, along with several student friends, to help the poor and suffering in the area surrounding the Sorbonne. Frederic had personally witnessed the poverty and misery of the poor through his volunteer work for the sisters of charity.
The Vincentians organized themselves into small working groups, called Conferences, at the parish level and the organization gradually spread throughout Europe and to the United States, in the 1840's.
The Society of St. Vincent dePaul faces new and greater challenges every day. We take the Corporal Works of Mercy to "feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the homeless" very seriously. You too can be a part of this great mission. Shelter and home heating concerns have reached crisis proportions with our less fortunate neighbors. The poor box is our main source of income. The Society operates solely through the generous contributions of our parishioners at St. Francis Xavier.
We are in need of toiletries and paper goods as well as non-perishable food items. Anyone who wishes to share "hands on" in this invaluable work, is welcome to attend our bi-monthly meetings held on the 2nd and 4th Monday nights at 7:30 PM in the St. Vincent dePaul Food Pantry. Thank you for your generosity.
May God's graces in abundance be upon all our generous benefactors.
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St. Francis Xavier Church
347 South Street
Hyannis, MA
Sacred Heart Chapel
32 Summer Street
Yarmouth Port, MA
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
tel: 508.775.3073
ST.VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY THANKS YOU
Through your continued support, we accomplished the following in 2010. We had 458 new clients in 2010. This has now increased our data base to over 7,500 clients.
242 rent and mortgage payments
78 gas, oil and electric bills
39 car repairs, insurance and registration bills.
BAGS OF FOOD
Over 11,050 bags of food.
We average about 85 families per week with 3 bags of food. Over 500 Thanksgiving and Christmas Baskets.
During the year 2010 SVDP Society received a total of $139,905 thanks to the generosity
