On Thursday, October 31st 2024, Fr. Mauro Loda returned from the USA where, together with General Councilor Fr. Felipe de Jesús López Orozco, he visited the confreres of the local Circumscription. On…

On Sunday, November 3rd, 2024, at 12:00, in the chapel of the International Theologate, Mexico City, our confreres Yulianus Agung, Vinsensius Rusae, David Alejandro Figueroa Rodríguez and Mali Yedria…

On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., our confrere Arnoldus Heriyanto Kurniawan will make his Perpetual Profession at Xavier Centre, Douala, Cameroon.

On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, at 10:30 a.m., our confreres Friwandi Nainggolan, Martinus Zalukhu Yunis, Richard Niyukuri, Kong Shaofeng-Simon and Aubin Nzambimana will make their Perpetual Professi…

On Saturday, November 9th, 2024, at 6:00 p.m., our confreres Francis Richard Chidiebere, Frédéric Mutonde, Yohanes Nicholindo Putra Geli Gowin, and Valerius Jan Nahak will make their perpetual profes…

On October 27th, 2024, a solemn celebration was held at the Diocesan cemetery of Zhengzhou (He Nan, China) as the faithful commemorated the 80° anniversary of presence in heaven of Monsignor Luigi Ca…

On Saturday, October 26th, 2024, our confrere Fr. Antonio López Villaseñor successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in Biblical Theology at the Theological Department of the Pontifical Univers…

On Sunday (10-27-2024), at the “Bom Pastor” parish in Curitiba-Brazil, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of our confrere Fr Domenico Costella's priestly ordination with great joy. He presided over t…

The synod of bishops on synodality (For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission) has just ended after a journey of three years (2021-2024). It is too early to evaluate an event charac…

On Wednesday, October 30, at the conclusion of October Mission Month, the magazine “Missione Oggi”, published by the Xaverian Missionaries, remembered the first Xaverian martyrs in the Democratic Rep…

Mozambique is among the last 20 countries in the world on the United Nations Human Development Index, and around two thirds of its 33 million inhabitants live below the poverty line. A dramatic situa…

On Friday, October 25th, 2024, Mrs Ottorina Barbieri, widow of Bortolo Faccin (brother of the Blessed Vittorio Faccin) passed away at Policlinico di Modena. Ottorina was born in 1939 and was living i…

Frs. Mauro Loda and Franciscus Xaverius Sudarmanto will pay a visit to the confreres in the Delegation of Thailand from Sunday, November 3rd to Sunday, November 17th, 2024. Their return to Rome is sc…

On Sunday, November 3rd, 2024, at 12:00, in the chapel of the International Theologate, Mexico City, Mexico, our confreres Yulianus Agung, Vinsensius Rusae, David Alejandro Figueroa Rodríguez and Mal…

On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., our confrere Arnoldus Heriyanto Kurniawan will make his Perpetual Profession at Xavier Centre, Douala, Cameroon.

On Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, at 10:30 a.m., our confreres Friwandi Nainggolan, Martinus Zalukhu Yunis, Richard Niyukuri, Kong Shaofeng-Simon and Aubin Nzambimana will make their Perpetual Professi…

“...I have lived with the awareness that it is Christ who chooses, every day, to call me, to accompany me, and to forgive my weaknesses. The Xaverian vocation, in tune with the ideal of St Guido Mari…

A group of 10 nuns and 3 priests recently held their live in or missionary encounter in Umphang from 10th to 17th of September 2024. The program is a part of their 6-month missionary training organiz…

Last Sunday, October 20, 2024, in St. Francis Xavier church, our small parish, the community of the faithful gathered joyfully around the Archbishop, His Grace Monsignor Tommaso Zhong An Zhu, for a M…

The CSCS Annual Confortian Cultural Afternoon has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 6th, 2024. The event is organised by the Amici del 5 Novembre (November 5th Friends) and will take place in th…

After the death of Brother Vittorio, Fr Luigi, Fr Giovanni and Abbè Albert, three confreres diligently gathered the letters of the new blesseds: Fr Vittorino Martini, Fr Augusto Luca and Fr Guglielmo…

As customary, on World Mission Day  (Sunday, October 20th 2024), Agenzia Fides publishes some selected statistics to provide an overview of the state of the Church in the world. As of January 1s…

In recent days, our confrere, Brother Maurizio Zenere, has been sending the Calendario 2025 to all Xaverian Circumscriptions. Some confreres stopping in Rome on their way back to mission provide a go…

In 1973, the Italian Missionary Publishing house “E.M.I.” was founded as an expression of the missionary work ad Gentes of the four male institutes of Italian origin, with the motto “words to change…

From Thursday October 24th, 2024, to Wednesday November 6th, 2024, the General Father Fernando García Rodríguez and General Councillor Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will pay a visit to the confreres of…

As part of the celebrations for the Missionary Month, on Sunday October 6th, from 2:00 to 4:15 p.m., a prayer service with a Missionary Rosary was held at the church in Izumisano. The event was atten…

A necessary step in spiritual life is the passive purification of the senses (as St. John of the Cross calls it). For us, missionaries ad gentes ad extra, this purification occurs, so to speak ‘ex of…

Dear Brother, With your elevation to the College of Cardinals, you will become a member of the Roman clergy. Welcome! That membership is an expression of the Church’s unity and of the bond that unit…

In 2024 alone, there have been almost one million people displaced due to the crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where “the human rights situation continues to deteriorate be…

In 2017, one of the world’s 20 largest diamonds was discovered in Kono District, Sierra Leone. However, such richness of the soil does not alleviate the poverty of local communities, on the contrary…

In Villaverla, Vicenza, Sunday, October 13th, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., the missionary agents of the local Diocese gathered for a Eucharistic celebration in thanksgiving for the beatification of Vittorio F…

Monday, October 14th, at 10:00 a.m., a Requiem Mass for our confrere Fr. Angelo Ulian was celebrated in the parish church of Marano Vicentino. General Superior, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, preside…

Saturday, October 12th, 2024, Mrs Anna Rosa Marchioni, 89, mom of our confrere Brother Bruno Menici, passed away in a home for the elderly in Brescia, Italy. Br. Bruno belongs to the Xaverian communi…

On Friday, October 18th, 2024, Frs. Mauro Loda and Felipe de Jesús López Orozco will set out for a visit to the confreres of the USA Delegation. Fr. Mauro Loda will return to Rome on Thursday, Octobe…

The second Friday of the month of October is dedicated to the memory of our confreres and Xaverian sisters who gave their lives to those who still do not know and love the Lord Jesus, in fidelity to…

“To be living and credible signs of the passion for God and for humanity” (XVIII GC 56). “…after several online meetings, the General Commission for Ongoing Formation held its first f…

On October 5th, 2024, the Xaverian Missionaries received the Corona Turrita (turreted crown) civic accolade from the City Council of Desio (MB-Italy). The motivation for this award reads: the Xaveria…

“In the king’s command to his servants we find two words that express the heart of the mission: the verbs “to go out” and “to invite”. As for the first, we need to remember that the servants had prev…

Below readers may find Bishop Giuliano Brugnotto’s address at the start of the new pastoral year (Marian Shine of Monte Berico, September 7th, 2024). Title and theme of his pastoral message is What d…

Msgr. Giuliano Brugnotto, Bishop of Vicenza, Italy, has invited the entire diocese to the parish church of Villaverla, VI, on Sunday October 13th, 2024, for a solemn Mass of thanksgiving for the gift…

On Saturday evening, October 5, 2024, at the Xaverian community in Salerno, one hundred people - young people and adults, Italians and Indonesians, new and old friends – attended the reopening of the…

On Sunday, October 6th, 2024, the XVI Interfaith Prayer Meeting for World Peace was held at the Shinmeizan Centre. This biennial event represents a milestone in the panorama of interreligious dialogu…

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

This number was disclosed by the general director of UNICEF as part of the new report Proven Solutionis for Children. The report was presented by the same UN agency during an event associated to the…

A concert to honour the PIME Missionaries’ work of evangelisation in the Middle Kingdom. Some of their names are remembered with affection also by our confreres present in that vast land. The PIME we…

On Wednesday, October 09, 2024, at 4:30 am, after a long illness, our confrere Fr. Angelo Ulian passed away in the Xaverian community of Vicenza. The confreres, his sister Silvana and brother-in-law…

With the penitential vigil presided over by Pope Francis at 6pm on Tuesday, 01 October 2024, the retreat in preparation for the Second Session of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod…

“…In order to invoke the intercession of Mary Most Holy for the gift of peace, I will recite the holy rosary and make a heartfelt plea to the Virgin in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major this coming Su…

From 01 to 05 October 2024, the Ongoing Formation’s General Commission met in Rome. This was the realisation of an orientation of the XVIII General Chapter (XVIII 61.g). The General commission is for…

The XVII General Chapter (2017) had an original proposal: the institution of a day to commemorate those who shed their blood to remain faithful to the Gospel of Jesus and the Xaverian Charism. The c…