Community Events

Throughout the year, each Wednesday evening volunteers are invited to participate in a community spirituality night. These evenings center around five basic themes. Examples of sessions in each thematic area are listed below.

Building Community

  • Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory and Implications for Living in Community
  • Living a Covenant as a Community
  • Community Covenant Writing Sessions
  • Mid-year reflection: Where Have We Been as a Community? Where Do We Want to Go?
  • Simple Living: What Is It and How Do We Do It?

Prayer/Reflection

  • Taize Prayer
  • Advent and Lenten Reflections
  • Apostolic Reflection/Theological Reflection
  • Volunteer-planned Prayer Sessions
  • Praying in the Spirit of Vincent DePaul

Vincentian Spirituality/The Call to Serve the Poor

  • Vincentian Spirituality: An Invitation to Conversion
  • The Elements of Vincentian Spirituality
  • Serving the Poor in the Spirit of Vincent DePaul
  • A Reflection: Moving from Works of Mercy to Works of Justice
  • Living the Vincentian Charism as a Lay Person
  • The Vincentian Virtues
  • The Historical Vincent DePaul and Louise de Marillac

Growing in Faith/Theological Understanding

  • Sessions on Theology, Faith, and Belief: How Do We Talk with One Another During our Year of Service?
  • Liturgy: What Is Communal Prayer? Why Do We Do It?
  • Catholic Social Teaching: Preferential Option for the Poor
  • Catholic Social Teaching: Brothers and Sisters to Us (Racism)
  • Sharing of Spiritual Journeys
  • Religion, Politics, and the Common Good
  • Gifts of the Spirit
  • Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
  • Visit to Aquinas Institute of Theology with Participation in a Class
  • Foundations of Moral Theology: The Role of Conscience
  • Responding to Gift: The Foundations of a Moral Life
  • Why Do We Pray As We Do?

Issues of Social Justice

  • Living in Poverty: First-hand Accounts
  • Access to Medical Care for People in Poverty
  • Access to Employment for People in Poverty
  • Welfare Reform and Medicaid
  • Access to the Legal System for People in Poverty
  • The Immigrant Experience: First-hand Accounts
  • Human Trafficking
  • United Farm Workers Ministry
  • International Volunteer Experience: First-hand Accounts
  • Capital Punishment

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Gateway Vincentian Volunteers
2912 Arsenal Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
(314) - 771-1474
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