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…

On Tuesday, October 1st, 2024, a large group of Xaverian Missionaries and Missionaries of Mary – Xaverian Sisters from Parma made the traditional pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary o…

On the evening of October 14th, 1874, our confrere Fr. Valeriano Cobbe’s adventure in Bangladesh was interrupted by a gunshot. He had been working for 12 years in the then East Pakistan to give back…

On the occasion of Desio Day (Milan, MB) and the ceremony for the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the City of Desio, on Saturday, October 5, 2024, the public merits for the year 2024 will be…

October is the month of World Mission Day. Numerous the proposals for the promotion of mission awareness in parish communities. Four Xaverians of the community in Vicenza took the commitment to prese…

The European Forum team invites the Xaverian Charismatic Family, in its various components present in Europe, to the SEMINAR of reflection on the Xaverian Mission in Europe on Friday, November 8, 202…

The video, prepared by our confreres of the Xaverian circumscription of Thailand, presents the prayer experience of Bank and Meti, two Thai students who are candidates for the Xaverian life. “Our Fo…

Maestro Marina Greco - professor of piano studies at Conservatorio di Latina, Lazio, Italy, and actively involved in the Xaverian Documentation Centre in Rome – has organised a webinar on Saturday, O…

In the context of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of foundation of the Guadalupe Missioanries, the Third International Missionary Symposium was held at the Universidad Intercontinental of Mex…

The September issue of Buddhismo Magazine (the official Journal of the Italian Buddhist Union) included among the list of its recommended books for the month also a short presentation of the volume p…

In the first half of 2024, global humanitarian needs grew from 46.6 billion US Dollars in January 2024 to the current 48.7 billion Dollars. Conflicts and violence have caused increased displacement a…

On Friday, October 4th, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., in St. Fransiskus dari Assisi Parish Church, Padang Baru, Diocese of Padang (Sumatra, Indonesia), our confrere Gregorius Purba Nagara will be ordained deac…

On Friday, September 20th, 2024, the General Directions of the Xaverian Missionaries and the Missionaries of Mary – Xaverian Sisters met for a first common reflection on the Xaverian Charismatic Fami…

Personally, the Mass of thanksgiving for the beatification of our four martyrs (Vittorio Faccin, Giovani Didonè, Luigi Carrara and Albert Joubert) has been an occasion for reviewing and thinking agai…

Sixty years of Xaverian religious profession. I often think back to the moment I took the decision to leave my small village and become a missionary. That was a step that would lead to the commitment…

In preparation for the beatification of the Martyrs of Fraternity last August 18, 2024, the diocesan beatification commission has set up several sub-commissions in different fields. As part of the pr…

Our confreres Frs. Rafael López Villaseñor and Stefano Raschietti have published a book "Interfaces da missão a partir da América Latina" (Mission faces starting from Latin America"). The publication…

“A first reflection that comes naturally after this journey is that in thinking of the Church, we are still too Eurocentric, or as they say, “western”. But in reality, the Church is much bigger, much…