The second updated digital edition of the Personnel Directory 2024 (Stato del Personale 2024) has been uploaded. Its precise and timely update depends primarily on the detailed communication from the…

From Desio and Vicenza, Emanuele Buratti and Serena Arosio shared about the visit of Msgr Paolo Andreolli, a Xaverian Bishop in Brazil, to his hometown of Cagnano (Fr. Michele Carlini, was also prese…

More than 10 million people, accounting for more than 20 percent of Sudan's population, had to leave their homes due to the war that has been raging since April 2023, according to the latest report b…

"… Jesus is concerned about the disciples' tiredness. Perhaps he is aware of a danger that can also affect our lives and our apostolate — for example, when the enthusiasm for carrying out the mission…

On Saturday, July 27, 2024, around 8:30 p.m., at the Pascale Hospital in Naples, Italy, our confrere Fr. Claudio Romeo Marano passed away. He had been in intensive care for several days. Fr. Claudio…

On Tuesday, July 23, 2024, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez traveled to Spain. He will be back in Rome on Sunday, August 11, 2024.

A ‘window’ dedicated to the beatification of the martyrs of Baraka and Fizi (DRC) has been opened. This window will be the reference point for all the information, documentation and aids (news, artic…

As the celebration of the beatification of the martyrs of Baraka and Fizi approaches (Uvira, DRC, August 18, 2024), several people have expressed the desire to prepare themselves through prayer. A no…

The website of the Italian Region presents the song "The Blood of the Martyrs," a hymn to the Martyrs of Baraka and Fizi (DRC): Fr. Luigi Carrara, Fr. Giovanni Didonè, Br. Vittorio Faccin, and Abbé A…

On Sunday, 21 July 2024, the parish of St. Bernard celebrated a classic Xaverian missionary day. All the Sunday offerings as well as the monthly offering for the parish were donated for the Xaverian…

On Sunday, July 14, 2024, the Eucharistic celebration concluded a week (July 8-14) of group activities. Youth, young adults, and adults (animators) joined not by age or origin but by enthusiasm for p…

“…I am a 29-year-old man from the province of Salerno (Italia, editor's note). I was able to get your personal email from Fr. Gaël Anantia of the Xaverian house in Salerno. I have actually been tryin…

On June 7, the formation house of the Xaverian Missionaries in Panzi, Bukavu, welcomed a group of eighteen people from Bujumbura - Burundi. They were men and women, members of the Lay Xaverian Missio…

"... thanks to Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T'Chiribuka – I received with joy the Stato del Personale 2024 and the official Anagrafe Saveriana 2024. I imagine a truly Lilliputian work of enormous patience. Th…

The double issue 18/3–4 of Quaderni del CSA was published on 1 July. In this issue’s editorial, CSA Director Fr Rocco Viviano sx writes on ‘The Missionary Nature of the Synod of Bishops. Thoughts on…

On Friday, July 19, 2024, the streets of Dhaka appeared virtually deserted as troops and armored vehicles patrolled the megacity of 20 million people. Unrest in recent days has claimed more than a hu…

How to be a missionary synodal Church? The Instrumentum Laboris (IL) for the next session of the Bishops' Synod moves from this fundamental question. The theme of the Synod, scheduled to take place f…

On Friday, July 19, 2024, at the Geelong Hospital, in Victoria State, Australia, Mrs. Livia Fornasier, aged 90, sister of our confrere Fr. Natalio Fornasier, passed away. P. Natalio is a member of t…

On Sunday, July 21st, 2024, at 9:30 a.m., in the church of Notre Dame du Congo Parish, Nyatende-Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, our confrere Jean-Marie Ishara Nabahivi will be ordaine…

SALAMANCA, GTO. – MEXICO: FIRST RELIGIOUS AND MISSIONARY PROFESSION On Sunday, July 21st, 2024, at 1:00 p.m., in the chapel of the Xaverian Novitiate in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico, novice Je…

We apologise for the stream of numbers and lettersthat appearedin the last Newsletter(Saturday, July 13th, 2024). The staff of the GD’s website thanksthe confreres for p…

On Thursday, July 18th, 2024, Frs. Fernando García Rodríguez and Felipe de Jesús López Orozco returned to Rome. They are back from South Brazil, where Fr. Felipe paid a visit to the…

From July 7-12, 2024, we held at St. Francis Xavier Parish in the city of Coronel Fabriciano (Minas Gerais) the first general assembly with the considerable participation of around thirty Xaverians…

(b. Carmignano, Padova, Italy, May 9th, 1908 – d. Hsuchang, China, April 30th, 1944): “I OFFER MY LIFE SO THAT GOD MAY SAVE CHINA” Some friends recently discovered that in China there is a website…

Domenica 14 luglio 2024 è stata celebrata solennemente e gioiosamente l’Eucaristia per la prima professione religiosa e missionaria di 8 novizi indonesiani nella quale erano presenti 13&nbs…

The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing for the beatification of four missionary martyrs. Vatican Radio spoke about this event with General Councillor Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T'Chiribuka and with L…

Included in the Avvenire newspaper, (July 16, p. 20) was an article by Tiziano Tosolini titled “To Speak of Jesus Martin Scorsese Returns to Endō.” The article is an excerpt from a more elaborat…

“Do not cast me off in my old age” (Psalm 71: 9) ‘Do not cast me off in my old age’: this quote from Psalm 71 is the theme of the upcoming IV World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly on July 28th…

On Friday evening, July 12th, 2024, Mrs Emelia Padilla De La Mora, mom of our confrere Fr. Horacio Padilla Pérez, passed away in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico. The Requiem Mass and funerary rites were…

On Sunday, July 14th, 2024, at 10:30 a.m., in the Chapel of the Xaverian Novitiate, Bintaro, Jakarta (Indonesia), the novices will make their First Religious and Missionary Profession. Before each na…

From Monday, July 8th, to Monday August 26th, 2024, Fr. Mauro Loda will stay at the Xaverian Community in Nogent sur Marne, Paris, to study French. 

The diocese of Nakhonsawan has made a memorandum of understanding with the Jesuits Worldwide Learning based in Geneva (Switzerland) to implement a tertiary education program for people and communitie…

On Friday, July 12th, 2024, at the Université Catholique du Congo (UCC), our confrere Fr. Cassien Nshimirimana publicly defended his dissertation (mémoire) in view to obtaining his master’s degree in…

Chiesa Viva is the monthly bulletin for information, formation and mission awareness of the Diocese of Vicenza. It is edited by the Office of Mission Ministry, of the Diocesan Missionary Centre, whos…

The Xaverian community in Preston (Mission and Vocation Promotion Centre) has moved - the house was closed on Friday July 5th, 2024 - to Xaverian Missionaries, Parish House, Wilson Road, Blackley, Ma…

“La speranza apostolica nella dottrina spirituale di San Guido Maria Conforti” (Apostolic Hope in the Spiritual Doctrine of St Guido Maria Conforti) is the title of an essay by our confrere Fr. Alfie…

Our confrere Fr. Antonio Trettel, member of the regional house community in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, writes an open letter to the Conference of Major Superiors that was recently held in…

Torrential rain and flooding rivers in north-eastern India and in neighbouring Bangladesh claimed several lives while three million people were affected by the catastrophe. Every year, the rainfall c…

On Thursday, July 11th, 2024, at the Hospice Cure Palliative di Giussano (Monza-Brianza, Italy), Mrs Maria Parravicina (more commonly known as Eugenia), aged 92, mother of our confrere Fr Sante Gatto…

On Saturday, July 6th, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in Marie Reine des Apôtres de Mvolye Basilica on Mvolye Hill, Yaoundé, our confrere Séverin Joseph Marie Mvilongo Onana, along with members of ot…

On Saturday, July 6th, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in Marie Reine des Apôtres de Mvolye Basilica on Mvolye Hill, Yaoundé, our confreres Ambrosius Agung Surya Mentaram and Adrianus S…

On Thursday, July 4th, 2024, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez left for Brazil where, from July 8th to 12th, 2024, in Coronel Fabriciano, Minas Gerais State, together with General Councillor Fr. Fel…

On Monday, July 8th, 2024, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will depart for the Democratic Republic of the Congo to visit the Formation communities. During his visit, Fr. Fabien will also take pa…

The beginning of the Novitiate was effective on the feast of the Apostle Thomas, Wednesday July 3, 2024. The Novitiate house that was in Kilomoni – Uvira (Democratic Republic of Congo) and temporaril…

Our confrere Fr. Giuseppe (Pino) Leoni, community member - Regional House Belem, PA, Brazil (North), shares a dream called “Dreaming in view of the ‘BS’ end ‘BN’ Assembly...” The Superior Gener…

“July 2nd reminds us of moments that are particularly meaningful in the history of our Congregation and in the life of our Founders; this is a day of family feast. Every community shall live thi…

From Ancona, Roberta Brasili reports on the experience called “missionary bar.” For the past few years, during the summer, the Xaverian missionaries have been inviting some of their co…

Laura Caffagnini is a journalist particularly attentive to the issues of ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, migrations, and inter-cultural processes. On June 29th, 2024, she published on the daily&n…

“We are different but united.” Christian and Muslim students living in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, Java Island, experience dialogue in the classrooms. Undeniably, the universities and col…

Our confrere, Fr. Oliviero Verzelletti, Archivist and Director of CDSR (Centro Documentazione Saveriani Roma), introduces one of the General Direction’s offices at the service of the entire Cong…