July 31, 2025
Thank you for opening Vincentian Voices today. This is the newsletter of the Vincentians of the Eastern Province. This Saturday, we invite you to watch the livestream on YouTube as we welcome five men into our Internal Seminary.
A
message
from
Father
Steve
Grozio,
CM
The Vincentians of the Eastern Province will livestream as we gather at St. Vincent’s Seminary in Philadelphia this Saturday, August 2, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. to celebrate the reception of Carlos Baten, Saul Bonifacio, Oscar Sontay, Tomas Feliz, and Benjamin Sevic into the Internal Seminary.
You can click here to join the livestream on YouTube.
Carlos, Saul, and Oscar are candidates for the Eastern Province while Tomas is from the Province of Portugal and Benjamin from the Province of Slovenia.
Please pray for vocations to the priesthood and brotherhood.
The Appointment of the New Assistant General Is Announced
The Superior General Fr. Tomaž Mavrič, CM, has appointed Fr. Abdo Eid, CM, from the Province of the Orient, as Assistant General. Born in 1968, in Lebanon. In 1994, Fr. Eid was ordained a priest within the Province of Orient, where he began his ministry at the Minor Seminary. In 1998, he joined the international mission of El Alto, Bolivia, where he served for 11 years. Upon his return to Lebanon in December 2009, he was appointed director of the Internal Seminary. In 2014, he became chaplain at Collège Saint Joseph of Antoura, before being appointed its Superior in 2020 — a position he continues to hold to this day. He pursued studies in philosophy and theology in Piacenza, Italy, earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Catholic University of Bolivia, and obtained a master’s degree in educational management from Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon.
May God bless you in the week ahead, and may Our Lady wrap you in her love and grace, drawing you closer to her Son.
Yours in St. Vincent,
Fr. Steve Grozio, CM
Provincial, Congregation of the Mission, Eastern Province
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Vinsights
Vincentian Insights from the Province
Fr. John Freund, CM
“For those younger than 50, whether they realize it or not, their experience of the Church comes through the lens and practices of Vatican II. It is an important reality to be aware of as we try to make sense of the full history of the church in her first fifteen centuries, and her unusual last half millennium.”
Fr. Aidan Rooney, CM
“Jesus uses the expression ‘at hand,’ as in ‘the Kingdom of God is at hand.’ It’s a phrase meaning ‘just around the corner, immanent, right over the horizon.’
“Feeling its pull, we can sense ourselves standing in expectation – head up, eyes open wide, straining to catch that first hint of what’s still on the way.”
From our Vincentian universities
Trivia time!
1. The company seeking to sell its Panama Canal ports at Balboa and Cristobal is based in which country?
2. Which railroad company does Union Pacific want to buy in order to create the United States’ first transcontinental railroad business?
3. Where was St. Justin de Jacobis born?
last week’s results
1. With whom did Pope Leo XIV speak to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the moon landing?
17 guesses
11 correct answers
2. What was the name of St. Vincent de Paul’s father?
14 guesses
10 correct answer
3. In the “Lord of the Flies,” what is also destroyed when Piggy is killed?
8 guesses
2 correct answers
Prayer requests
Please pray for the repose of the souls of:
All the Vincentian Priests and Brothers who have gone before us
Please remember in your prayers:
Our sick brothers and priests
Our confreres in St. Catherine’s Infirmary
All those affected by war
All those affected by natural disasters
All victims of violence and their families
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