St. Vincent de Paul Heritage Week Luncheon

We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

For those joining us remotely, the Zoom link can be found below. Note that the programmed portion will not begin in earnest until around 12:20 as in-person guests arrive, gather food, and eat.

Please note that we are doing our best with AV; the room itself has some acoustical challenges that we are working to overcome, so we thank you in advance for your patience!

https://depaul.zoom.us/j/4547530974

You can download the program below:

Luncheon Program

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"As good Pope Francis has put it: It is the inviolable dignity of every human being, even those who have committed terrible crimes that must always preclude the state from terminating them as disposable human waste. St Vincent lived in that spirit as he sought out and served the "throw away" people of his day. And It is that same Gospel spirit that led me to entrust into De Paul's archives the documents and memorabilia of my 40-year ministry to abolish state killing."

--Sister Helen Prejean

Join the DePaul community for a special luncheon featuring an engaging conversation with Sister Helen Prejean, ardent advocate for restorative justice and activist against the death penalty.

Dr. Robert Manuel, DePaul's new President, will present Sr. Helen with the St. Vincent de Paul Award in recognition of her advocacy for restorative justice and her work against the death penalty. The award is DePaul's highest honor, with past winners including Dorothy Day, Monsignor John Egan, and Muhammad Yunus.

The hybrid luncheon will be hosted on the Concourse Level of the DePaul Center, starting at noon. We hope you can join us! We will also be hosting the conversation via Zoom, for those who cannot join us in person.

For more about Sister Helen Prejean's amazing lifetime of work, see her site here: https://www.sisterhelen.org/

We will update this site as we get closer to the date, but please register now, save the date, and revisit this space!

Part of St. Vincent de Paul Heritage Week

St. Vincent de Paul Heritage Week celebrates the life and mission of our namesake, St. Vincent de Paul. It's celebrated at the end of September around his Feast Day, which is on September 27. Vincent was a trailblazer, a true change agent of his day. He was a man who saw hope and possibility despite the challenges of his time. He felt a keen dissatisfaction in the gap between the way the world should be and the way the world was. Throughout his 79 years, Vincent sought to close that divide, asking "what must be done" and acting on the answers he found. Four hundred years later, DePaul University continues to carry forward his legacy by educating the next generation of trailblazers.