On Sunday, January 19th (presumably) 2025, in Villaverla, Vicenza, Mr Gerardo Pisani (87), brother of our late confrere Fr Flaviano Pisani (Vicenza, + 2013), passed away. The Eucharist and funeral ri…

At our confrere Fr. Alfiero Ceresoli’s suggestion, we propose to the Xaverian family the reading of this meditation composed by our founder. It is a text of extraordinary beauty and truth on the myst…

Right now (in the afternoon, on Thursday 16th, 2025), we are at the conclusion of the Assembly of the Chinese Delegation. Ten participants: in addition to the eight of us, with us are the Fr. General…

In the Xaverian formation house of Maniktola, Bangladesh, on January 11, 2025, four candidates started their propaedeutic stage. It is the second group of the propaedeutic stage of Xaverian Circumscr…

The Ordinary General Assembly of the North Brazil circumscription was held at the Centro Mariapolis Glória, Benevides-PARÁ, Brazil, from 10 to 12, January 2025. In the morning session on Friday, Jan…

Lunar New Year or Chinese Spring Festival (中国春节 Zhōng Guó Chūn Jié) this time falls on 30th January, 2025, and it is the Year of the Snake in the Lunar Calendar. Snakes have special symbolic mean…

In order to deepen the knowledge of the faith of catechumens, the Church in Cagliari, together with Msgr. Giuseppe A.S. Baturi, Archbishop of Cagliari, and all the catechumens, chose a new methodolog…

One week has already passed since the winter gathering (convivenza invernale) of the Xaverian Laity was held in Salerno (January 3rd to 6th, 2025). It was a time spent together in friendship, reflect…

More than 90% of people living in mixed couples with different beliefs celebrate religious holidays together. It is no coincidence that the report revealing this fact, recently published thanks to th…

On Sunday, January 12, 2025, Fr Giulio Trettel, Salesian, brother of our confrere Fr Antonio Trettel, passed away. He was 94 years old. The Eucharist and funeral rites were celebrated in the Archprie…

From January 7 to 10, 2025, in the "Centre d'accueil de Bakara" - N'djamena, the confreres working in the Republic of Chad held their first Delegation Assembly. Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, Superio…

Dear Superior General, Thank you for the letter you sent to all relatives of the Xaverian missionaries. I am the brother of Fr. Silvio Turazzi who left us in 2022. Our family maintains a specia…

On Wednesday, January 1, 2025, Fr. José Ignacio Martínez González began his new service as General Procurator for Economy. His office is located at Viale Vaticano 40 ([email protected] ). On…

From December 26th to 28th, 2024, the circumscription of Mexico held its Asamblea de Navidad (Christmas Assembly). It started with a Mass presided over by the Regional Superior, Fr. Juan Jorge Rosale…

On Sunday evening, January 5th, 2025, the confreres of the Fourth Floor of the Mother House, Parma, greeted Fr. Gabriele Cimarelli (Rector of the Mother House, 2015-2024) on his way to the mission in…

On Thursday, January 9th, 2025, the daily newspaper L' Osservatore Romano published an interview with our confrere Fr. Alessandro Brai, entitled: “In conversation with Fr. Alessandro Brai. The Xaveri…

This was the theme of the XXXIV Refresh Course (Rome, January 2nd-4th, 2025) for theology teachers belonging to ATI (Associazione Teologica Italiana). The course was attended also by our confrere Fr…

13 people shed their blood for Christ. The Christian community lost 13 missionaries that were murdered during the year 2024. They include priests, religious and lay Christians committed to pastoral m…

What ecclesiological vision inspires the Final Document of the 16th Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality, and what perspectives does it allow us to imagine for the mission of the Church? In…

On Friday, January 3rd, 2025, Mrs. Lucia Vignato, sister of our late confrere Fr. Vignato Renzo (d. 1988, Parma), passed away. The Requiem Mass and funerary rites were celebrated on Wednesday, Januar…

On Sunday, December 29th, 2024, issue No. 135 of iSaveriani was uploaded on the General Direction’s website. In the introduction to this Special on the Martyrs’ Beatification, General Superior, Fr. F…

The very young people's convivence, held from 27 to 30 December 2024 in our Xaverian community in Salerno and organized by our charismatic family, ended on Monday 30. The event was attended by about…

“On 24 December 1954, at Christmas, the 10 first Mentawaian Catholics marked the beginning of evangelization in the Mentawai Islands in the province of West Sumatra, Padang diocese in Indonesia. This…

The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity has made available the resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025. In the Northern Hemisphere, traditionally the Week of Prayer is held from…

As requested in the letter personally sent on December 8th, 2024, we cordially remind all Superiors of Circumscription to hand in by January 15th, 2025, the forms communicating changes, assignments a…

As already informed in Xaverian News, on November 22nd, 2024, https://dg.saveriani.org/es/comunicazioni/notizie/sxaverianews/item/9th-quarterly-update-of-address-book-2022-preparing-address-book-202…

Confucius, who lived between 551 and 479 b.C., left an enduring mark on Chinese culture. In recent times, however, his philosophy, characterised by a set of principles aiming at promoting social harm…

On Thursday, January 2nd , 2025, Mr Graziano Marchetto, brother of our deceased confrere Fr. Sergio Marchetto (+ 2024), passed away in Arzignano, Vicenza, Italy. The Requiem Mass and burial rites wil…

“Time is as precious as grace is precious, as heaven is precious, as God is precious”. (Saint Guido Maria Conforti, May 2018, Parma, autograph; “La Parola del padre”; Pagine Confortiane, 30…

On Monday, December 30th, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez will return to Rome from Mexico where, along with Felipe de Jesús López Orozco, he paid a visit to the confreres of that circums…

On Monday, December 30th, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will return from the Philippines where he paid a visit to the confreres and personally met with formators and students of our forma…

On Saturday, January 4th, 2025, Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will leave Mexico and go directly to the Circumscription of North Brazil for a visit to the local confreres. The visit will be ca…

Fr. Franciscus Xaverius Sudarmanto will pay a visit to the confreres of North Brazil from Saturday, January 4th to Sunday, February 2nd, 2025. The visit to the local confreres will be carri…

From Friday, January 3rd to Saturday February 1st, 2025, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez and Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will visit the confreres of the soon-to-be-established Circum…

From Sunday, January 5th to Friday January 17th, 2025, Fr. Mauro Loda will visit the confreres of Chinese Delegation on both sides and take part in their Assembly in Taipei-Taiwan (January…

During Guido M. Conforti’s lifetime the Holy Year was celebrated thrice: in 1900, 1913 and 1925. In 1913, he joined the General Superiors of the exclusively missionary congregations of Italy in writ…

“Here we are, in the silence of the grotto. We breathe deeply the infinite stillness which that child lying in a manger under the loving gaze of Mary and Joseph wants to give as a gift to our sufferi…

Our confrere, Fr. Amandus Rejino Santoso (aka Ino), rector of the Xaverian domus in Padang, Indonesia, as well as vocation promoter, shared an experience of welcoming and dia…

On December 14, 2024, the community of the Theologate of Manila hosted an Interreligious Dialogue Meeting. Aside from our community members, the participants were coming from some religious communiti…

An icon exhibition, which began on Sunday, December 22nd, 2024, with a solemn opening, is taking place in Taipei, with more than 60 works by various authors. The place hosting the exhibition, the hea…

“…Each of us must feel in some way responsible for the devastation to which the earth, our common home, has been subjected, beginning with those actions that, albeit only indirectly, fuel the conflic…

The community of Xaverian students in Vamaro/Bukavu wishes you all the best for the end-of-the-year holidays! May Emmanuel, the God among us, come into our lives and reign in our hearts! And may the…

“...we slightly anticipate its (of “Agenda” - ed.) release in December, so as to experience Christmas in the most intimate, spiritual but also communal way possible, for Christmas is not ma…

From November 23rd to 25th, 2024, the Annual Assembly of the Xaverian Laity in Mexico was held in the Xaverian Theology House of Mexico City. Delegates came from the communities of Maz…

The statistician Roberto Volpi, in the insert La Lettura of the daily Corriere della Sera, December 22nd, 2024, dedicates a whole page to an analysis of the data on religious part…

With a heart full of gratitude, the ‘Shinmeizan Centre’ celebrates Christmas 2024 with a message of peace and reflection. In its letter to friends and supporters, the Centre looks back on a…

On Friday, December 20th, 2024, Mr Angelo Asolan, brother of our confrere Brother Vincenzo Asolan, passed away suddenly. He was 80. The Requiem Mass and funerary rites were celebrated on Tuesday, Dec…

The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. … From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace, because while the law was given through Moses, grace and truth…

“This is why all the peoples of the earth, enlightened by the vivid ray of faith, rejoice on this happy day with a very special joy. There is no room for sadness, in the words of Leo the Great, when…

On Tuesday, December 24th, 2024, the opening of the Holy Door of the Basilica of Saint Peter, Rome, will initiate the Ordinary Jubilee Year of 2025. In a letter published on February 11th, 2022, Pope…