Providing HOPE to Those in Need
Help us Help Others
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Click HERE to Sign up to volunteer in the St Vincent de Paul Dining Rooms and Shelters or other Holiday Activities. Scroll to the right at the top of the screen to see all the opportunities.
Your actions as volunteers at St. Vincent de Paul reflect values of loving and respecting one another.
Thank you for being an example to all people in our community of love to your fellow human beings.
When you see someone on a street corner with a sign that says, “Homeless – Need Help,” your first instinct may be to hand them a cash donation, but we do not recommend that approach.
That’s the purpose of the St. Vincent de Paul “Hope Card” – to tell those who are in a situation of homelessness about the services we provide. Feel free to print up copies of our Hope Card and keep a few in your pocket or your car.
Rather than providing cash, our Hope Card can provide linkages to services to help someone overcome homelessness. We provide a place where they can get a hot meal, a bed, a shower, and a second chance.
Click here to print Hope Cards.
Organized locally, Vincentians witness God's love by embracing all works of charity and justice. The Society collaborates with other people of good will in relieving need and addressing its causes, making no distinction in those served, because in them Vincentians see the face of Christ.
What we do for the poor is not something we do for God; our work is what we allow God to do through us.
-Blessed Frederic Ozanam
Jesus is reliving His passion in our poor people. The poor are really going through the passion of Christ. We should treat them with dignity.....Give to Christ in His distressing disguise. It is Jesus in the poor that you feed, clothe, and take in. Do it all with a great, undivided love.
- Mother Theresa
"Charity is the Samaritan who pours oil on the wounds of the traveler who has been attacked.
It is justice’s role to prevent the attack."
-Blessed Frederic Ozanam
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
- Written on the wall of Mother Teresa’s home for children in Calcutta