Priest · Feast day September 27
St. Vincent de Paul
The feast day of St. Vincent de Paul is September 27, a memorial in the US Catholic calendar. Traditionally invoked as patron of charitable societies and volunteers. Below: a short life and 3 sourced quotations in their own words.
| Feast day | September 27 |
|---|---|
| In the US calendar | Memorial |
| Title | Priest |
| Died | 1660 |
| Patron of | charitable societies, volunteers |
| In their own words | 3 sourced quotations |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | None left in the published calendar (through December 31, 2028) |
Life
A Gascon peasant’s son, captured by pirates and enslaved in Tunis before escaping to become the apostle of charity in seventeenth-century France. He organized the Ladies and then the Daughters of Charity with Louise de Marillac, galley slaves and foundlings his special care.
He taught his missioners that the poor are their masters. Two centuries later his name became the banner of lay charity the world over.
Patron of
Tradition invokes St. Vincent de Paul as patron of charitable societies and volunteers.
Patronages are traditional, not an official list. All patron saints in Bless, A to Z.
In their own words
Each quotation names the work it comes from. Bless quotes these in the comments beside the verses listed under In Scripture.
It is not enough to love God if my neighbor does not love Him.
The poor are your masters and you are their servants.
Let us love God, but let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brows.
In Scripture
In Bless, St. Vincent de Paul’s words appear in the comments beside these verses. This page’s labels say how each is linked: “on this verse” means the saint wrote about that very verse; “on this theme” means the quotation shares its theme. Scripture is quoted from the Catholic Public Domain Version.
On this theme
But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Matthew 22:39 · CPDV Beside their words: “It is not enough to love God if my neighbor does not love Him.”
On this theme
And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.’
Matthew 25:40 · CPDV Beside their words: “The poor are your masters and you are their servants.”
On this theme
So, too, the Son of man has not come so that they would minister to him, but so that he would minister and would give his life as a redemption for many.”
Mark 10:45 · CPDV Beside their words: “The poor are your masters and you are their servants.”
On this theme
Thus even faith, if it does not have works, is dead, in and of itself.
James 2:17 · CPDV Beside their words: “Let us love God, but let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brows.”
On this theme
My little sons, let us not love in words only, but in works and in truth.
1 John 3:18 · CPDV Beside their words: “Let us love God, but let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brows.”
On this theme
If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see?
1 John 4:20 · CPDV Beside their words: “It is not enough to love God if my neighbor does not love Him.”
In the calendar
The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. Vincent de Paul. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.
Readings
No dates are left in Bless’s published calendar, which runs through December 31, 2028. St. Vincent de Paul keeps September 27 in Bless’s calendar of saints: see the saints of September.
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