The visible face of the local chapter of St. Vincent dePaul is comprised of men and women from our parish, who meet with residents to listen to and witness their essential needs. Requests for assistance with food, clothing and sheltering are only able to be answered because of the generosity of the heart of the Society, the parishioners of the parish community, through their regular food and monetary donations, not only providing material assistance such as rent, utilities, food, or clothing, but also offering friendship, understanding, and prayer. The unique gift of spiritual happiness from the needful members of the Society sustains all.
The Society displays its confraternity through events such as the donation and distribution of food baskets for a Thanksgiving dinner and Easter Sunday meal, an annual Friends of the Poor Walk, and by its Christmas Giving Tree Project.
Since its formation in the nineteenth century by the French layman, Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has spread to include conferences throughout the world. As St. Paul wrote of one body with interdependent members in his teaching of Jesus and the Church, so too does the Society strive to be an example of that ideal relationship, through the intercession of its patron, St. Vincent de Paul.