On Saturday, September 14th, 2024, 33 young people from different Xaverian regions and delegations in Africa, officially started their Pre-noviciate year in the community of Xaverian Noviciate and Pr…

While reflecting on the hand-written documents left by the Founder, we, the staff in charge of the General Archive and the Archive of the Italian Region, realised that those documents (letters, homil…

On September 11th, 2024, the Xaverian Region of Mexico handed over the parish in Santa Cruz, Huejutla, Hidalgo, to Msgr. José Hiraís Acosta, Bishop of Huejutla, during a Eucharistic celebration presi…

Thanks to the work of MissioNET, a series of Videos on the activities of the Xaverian Missionaries in Spain and Morocco is being produced. Video n. 1 on “Prayer and Mission” has just been released. T…

On September 7th, 2024, we, a small group of friends, met to mark our 35th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood. We were Frs. Sergio Galimberti (Libi), Tiziano Tosolini, Marco Moro and Sergio…

La Civiltà Cattolica, issue n. 4181, September 7th, 2024, reports an interview with Xaverian Sister Maria De Giorgi of Shinmeizan on “Mission in Japan: Witness and Dialogue” conducted by the journal…

The weekend of September 14/15 seen the end of an era for the Region in the Archdiocese of Glasgow. After a presence of more than 25 years and 6 parishes our time in the Archdiocese has come to an en…

Pope Francis’ last meeting in Singapore was with youth belonging to different religions. Singapore was the last leg of a trip that, from Rome, took the Pope to very far lands. On Friday, September 13…

On September 12th, 2024, the president of the Associazione Culturale “Antonio Rosmini” (Trento, Italy), invited our confrere, Fr. Gabriele Ferrari, to give a talk on the personality of Msgr. Faustino…

Starting in September 2024, new exciting cultural activities, including children's events dedicated to the art of ceramics: the first one on Wednesday, September 18th, 2024. https://www.parmatoday.i…

Every year since 2015, the faithful of the Parish of San Guido Maria Conforti in Kamenge, Bujumbura, Burundi, join the entire Xaverian Charismatic Family to reflect on the lives of the three Xaverian…

On Saturday, September 7-2024, the members of the Xaverian Noviciate of Bujumbura “Martyrs de la Fratérnité” (Martyrs of Fraternity) joined by some Xaverian fathers of Kamenge Parish and some Xaveria…

There are things we think will never happen. Well, this time, one such thing happened to me: on September 12th, 2024, with other confreres, I will celebrate my 70th year anniversary of religious life…

The third monthly digital update of Stato del Personale 2024 (Personnel Directory 2024) has been uploaded. We urge all confreres, but especially the Superiors of Circumscription, to keep their Circum…

On Thursday, September 12th, 2024, our confrere Brother Giomar Henrique Clemente defended his Dissertation for a master’s in psychology with a specialisation in Social Psychology at the Department of…

CONFERENCE 03 Monsignor Honoré Barhewa, Vicar General of the Diocese of Uvira, DRC, gave the third lecture based on the Johannine text: “There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one…

Pope Francis’ message is divided in two parts. The first is dedicated to God’s presence among his walking people. It is about the walking “with” that is so important in the experience of the people o…

In Papua New Guinea, a country with 841 different languages, during a meeting with the bishops, priests, catechists and religious men and women, a catechist asked Pope Francis this question: “how can…

On “International Day of the Disappeared”, in Mexico, groups of women belonging to the collective Guerreros Buscadores began to search for their disappeared relatives. They started by praying togethe…

Frs. Fernando García Rodríguez and Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka returned to Rome after a visit (September 3rd - 8th, 2024) to the confreres of the community in Nogent Sur Marne, Paris, France. 

Frs. Mauro Loda and Felipe Orozco returned to Rome after a visit (September 2nd - 7th, 2024)  to the confreres of the Circumscription of Spain-Morocco during which they participated in the Assem…

From September 13th to early October 2024, the General Council will hold the fourth cycle of its meetings. Issues in the agenda are: admissions to Perpetual Professions; preparation to the meeting of…

The first two conferences organized by the local Church, in various languages, in preparation for the beatification are available on the DG website. The video (YouTube) of the conferences is also ava…

From Tuesday 01 October 2024 to Saturday 05 October 2024, our confreres members of the General Commission for Ongoing Formation will meet at the General House, Rome, together with the General Directi…

The Church is not the only teacher of life, history is one too. As I look back on my past and analyse it, I realise I went through changes of all kinds – social, affective, ministerial and spiritual…

…Some of us survivors of that group of 25 "audacious" young men who were ordained to the missionary priesthood back on October 25, 1964, finding ourselves occasionally in the Mother House in Parma, t…

During an audience granted on Friday, August 30th, 2024, to the participants of the extraordinary plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Evangelisation – Section for First Evangelisation and New Local…

Apart from facilitating the crossing of a highway, the pedestrian underpass called Fraternity Tunnel connects Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral Church and Istiqlal Mosque (or “Freedom” Mosque). Th…

On Monday, August 26th, 2024, Father General returned to Rome from his trip to the Democratic Republic of the Cong and Burundi.

On Monday, August 26th, 2024, the Vicar General returned to Rome from Paris, France, where he took a French language course.

On Thursday, August 29th, 2024, General Councillor, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka made his return to Rome from his trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.

From Monday, September 2nd, to Saturday, September 7th, 2024, Fr. Mauro Loda and Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will be in Madrid, Spain, to visit our confreres and to take part in the Assembly of…

From Tuesday, September 3rd, to Sunday 08 September 2024, Fr Fernando García Rodríguez and Fr Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will visit our confreres in Paris, France. 

At the invitation of their respective heads of state and religious leaders, from September 2nd to 13th, Pope Francis will make an Apostolic trip to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapo…

In the coming weeks, some materials such as videos, photos, conference texts of the celebrations and events organized in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the occasion of the beatification of the M…

In preparation for the forthcoming visit of Pope Francis, a study conference, organized by the ‘Studies in inter-religious relations in plural societies (SRP) programme’ and the ‘Asia Research Instit…

Our confrere Fr. Alfiero Ceresoli last week celebrated his 88th birthday. A missionary in Brazil, he belongs to the Xaverian community in Curitiba (south Brazil). Below, he shares a reflection entitl…

On Saturday and Sunday, August 24th and 25th, 2024, the Xaverian Missionaries Br. Giomar Henrique Clemente, Fr. Elvis Ndihokubwayo, Fr. Everson Luiz Kloster, Diego and Ivaelton, carried out a vocatio…

I remember very well the night of September 28th, 1974 (the eve before my ordination): I couldn’t sleep, not even for a minute. I kept asking myself whether I was ready to consecrate myself to Christ…

From Pope Francis’ message: To hope and act with creation, then, means above all to join forces and to walk together with all men and women of good will. In this way, we can help to rethink, “among…

After the last two days in Fnideq, we returned to Salerno yesterday with great gratitude for what we experienced in Morocco. Grateful for having had the opportunity to "be with… "the guests of some s…

On Friday August 23rd, 2024, Mrs. Carmela Casula, sister of our late confrere Fr. Ivaldo Casula (d. 2007, in Makeni, SL), passed away in Guasila, South Sardinia, Italy. The Requiem Mass was celebrate…

On Monday, August 26th, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. (local time), in Ruteng Cathedral, Flores Island, Indonesia, our confrere Yuventus Yonavan Cahyono will be ordained priest through the laying on of hands an…

The celebration of the beatification of Vittorio, Luigi, Giovanni, and Albert took place in St. Peter's Square of Uvira Cathedral from 9:30 to 13:00. It brought together about 15,000 people, who part…

The Icon of the Martyrs of Fraternity is available and downloadable in high definition. Simply click on the red bar. https://dg.saveriani.org/it/multimedia/foto/martiri/item/icona-dei-martiri-della-…

Preceded by two evenings of animation and adoration in the parish of St. Bernard in Kinshasa, DRC, the beatification of the four martyrs was an awaited and prepared celebration. At the beginning of t…

In the words of Alessandra Lisippo, "...This is the message that Umphang, this village on the border with Myanmar, seems to want to convey to me...The respect the children have for the adults, the ab…

For more than 20 years the CSA has been reflecting and proposing to the attention of the Congregation and the Church the theme of Conversion and of our contribution to this miracle, the work of God i…

Once again this year, as every year since 2003, at the request of Kitakyushu University of Industrial Medicine, on August 3rd-5th and August 18th-20th, Shinmeizan organized two short training courses…

The Founder of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary, the Venerable Mother Celestina Bottego, died forty-four years ago. In the little but precious book that collects the reflections of some theolo…