VINCENTIAN STUDIES COURSE

BOQUERON, CHIRIQUI, PANA

JOHN P. PRAGER, C.M. 1995

C. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE C.M. AND THE D.C.

READINGS FOR THE TEACHER:

Baylach, J.O., "Rapports Juridiques entre les Filles de la Charité, la C.M. et leurs Superieur General," Vincentiana 27 (l983), p. 442ff.

 --, "Vincentiana cause avec M. Lloret, Directeur des Filles de la Charité," Vincentiana29 (l985), p. 147-156.

Borloo, M., "Collaboration Filles de la Charité- Congrégation de la Mission-Laïcat Vincentien," Vincentiana 34 (l990), p. 894-898.

 Duzan, A., "Le Rôle du Directeur Provincial," Vincentiana 34 (l990), p. 899-913.

 Jamet, J., "Relaciones Sacerdotales C.M.- Hijas de la Caridad," in Vicente de Paúl: Inspirador de la Vida Comunitaria, (Salamanca: CEME, l975), p. 265-279.

 Lloret, M., "Relation entre la C.M. et la Compagnie des F.C.," Vincentiana 34 (l990), p. 914-932. Also in (l987), p. 781 & (l984), p. 781.

 Meyer, Una Institución Singular, p. 275-315.

 Pérez-Flores, M., "La Ayuda Espiritual de la C.M. a las H.C. y la Colaboración Mutua," Anales 91 (l983), p.272ff.

 --, "Los Ministerios en favor de las Hermanas son Parte de Nuestra Misión," Anales 87 (l979), p. 90-118.

 --, "La Misión al Servicio de la Caridad," in Don del Amor a la Iglesia y a los Pobres, p. 293-316.

READINGS FOR THE NOVICES:

Pérez -Flores, M. "The Superior General of the C.M. and the D.C.," Vincentian Heritage 5 (l984), p. 1-42.

OPTIONAL READINGS:

McCarty, S., "Collaborative Ministries within the Vincentian Family," Vincentian Heritage 12 (l991), p.229-244.

 Wilkinson, J., "Vincentians and Daughters of Charity: The Same Charism," Vincentiana 30 (l986), p. 68-77.
 
 

The following questions can be discussed:

-What can the Daughters offer to the C.M.'s?
-What can the C.M. offer to the Daughters?
-What are some of the difficulties that impede collaboration?
 

POINTS OF EMPHASIS:

-The Daughters are an independent community with their own history, structures and way of living the charism.

-The Vincentian charism is the same, but the sisters have developed their own manner of incarnating it.

-The C.M.'s as such have no authority over the D.C.'s. Since St. Louise's time, they have chosen to have the superior general of the C.M. as their superior general.

-The C.M.'s who have positions in the Company of the D.C.'s(Provincial Director, Director General) hold their position by delegation from the superior general
and by the Constitutions of the D.C.'s.

-The reason for this unique structure is St. Louise's desire to keep the Daughters faithful to the end of service of the poor by association with the C.M.

-Although the sisters are legally independent, there are many common elements: the same founder and charism, the same vows(the difference is a question of time, not
the vows themselves), the same nature as societies of apostolic life.

-Vincent and Louise considered collaboration important.