On Friday, November 24th, 2023, Mrs Mariella Villa, sister-in-law of our late confrere Fr. Giuseppe Arnoldi, passed away in Bergamo, Italy. The Requiem Mass was celebrated in St. Thomas Church, via d…

The digital version of Calendario Saveriano 2024 has been uploaded on the GD’s website. The hard copies have already been mailed at the end of October 2023 thanks to the quick and efficient service o…

On Friday 10 November 2023, the Philosophy community of Jakarta held an inter-faith dialogue with the theme: Getting to Know the Bahai Religion. The participants of this activity were around 100 peop…

The dioceses of Brazil must not close in on themselves, within their geographical and cultural borders; rather, they are called to go to the ends of the earth, bringing Christ’s message to other land…

Recently, the Xaverian community of Cagliari published a book titled Missionari e Missionarie Saveriani Sardi Defunti (Deceased Sardinian Xaverian Men and Women Missionaries) that collects brief biog…

From November 13th to 16th, 2023, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints organised a conference at the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome under the title Holiness is a Gift of God to the Commu…

Our confrere, Fr. Paulin Batairwa Kubuya, Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, has recently accompanied the Prefect of said Dicastery to participate, on Tuesday and Wednesday…

Training activities for the catechists of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the Diocese of Padang are the first priority in this year planning. The first stage of their formation was carried out in…

Our Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography and the prestigious Pilotta Monumental Complex of Parma City are about to reach an agreement that will grant the Xaverian Missionaries use of the important v…

On Saturday, November 18th, 2023, around 12:00, our confrere Fr. Raimondo Sommacal died of cerebral haemorrhage at Parma Hospital. He had celebrated his 80th birthday one month earlier, as he was b…

From November 26th, 2023, to January 31st, 2023, General Councillor Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka will travel to the Xaverian Circumscriptions of Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to vis…

On Monday, November 27th, 2023, Fr. Mauro Loda will leave the Xaverian Circumscription of Colombia and travel directly to the Xaverian Circumscription of Mexico where he is going to meet the confrere…

On Thursday, November 30th, 2023, Frs. Fernando García Rodríguez and Sudarmanto will visit the confreres of Bangladesh and take part in their Regional Chapter (December 6th-11th, 2023).

On Sunday, December 17th, 2023, Frs. Fernando García Rodríguez and Sudarmanto will leave Bangladesh and travel to the Delegation of Thailand on a visit to the confreres. Their return to Rome is sched…

Thanks to the generous and patient work of translation and revision done by various confreres, the Spanish translation of the Documents of the XVIIIGCh is now available for download. We remind that…

The VII updated digital version (November 18th, 2023) of Stato del Personale 2023 (Personnel Directory 2023) is available for download on the GD website. Once again, we thank the confreres that pati…

On Sunday, November 5th, the confreres of the Mozambican Delegation concluded the celebrations marking the silver jubilee of the first Xaverians’ arrival in this Southern African country. Indeed, it…

On Founder’s Day, the Xaverian community in Torreón, Coahuila, along with benefactors, friends and the Xaverian laity, gathered to bless the image and chapel dedicated to St Guido Maria Conforti in t…

Violent protests have been inflaming Bangladesh for several weeks with fierce clashes between demonstrators, especially textile workers, and the police. Hundreds of fashion factories have already hal…

On November 12th, 2023, took place at the Xaverian Theologate of Manila, in the Philippines, the second edition the “Open House”. On this day the community of Theology opened its doors to all who wan…

November 3rd – in St. Mary’s Parish, Coatbridge, the Xaverian community in the United Kingdom gathered with family, friends, former students of the Junior Seminary and benefactors to celebrate 7…

From November 6th to 10th, 2023, promoted by the UISG and USG (the two Unions of Superior Generals of men and women religious), an international workshop on safeguarding in religious congregations wa…

From November 22nd to 24th, 2023, the General Superior, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez, will participate in the 100th Assembly of U.S.G. at the Fraterna Domus, Rome. Title of the event will be Synodal…

On November 2nd, 2023, Fr. Piergiordano Cabra, a religious man belonging to the Congregation of Piamarta, passed away in Brescia. He was 91. In the Italian environment of the religious, he was well-k…

…I was very pleased to read your article that appeared recently in iSaveriani 127: The friendship between San Guido Conforti and Pope John 23rd. The title alone immediately attracts... I find your in…

On Saturday, November 11th, 2023, 94-year-old Dona Maria, mother of our confrere Roberto Carlos Marques da Silva, Regional Superior of South Brazil ([email protected]), passed away in the city of…

On Saturday, November 11th, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., in the parish of Our Lady of Lake Yaoundé, our confreres Séverin Joseph Marie Mvilongo Onana will be ordained deacon through the laying on of hands an…

World Day of the Poor, which falls on the Sunday preceding the Solemnity of Christ the King, is a gift Pope Francis gives us every year. It reminds us of our being called to reach out to those who li…

From October 29th to November 4th, 2023, the Xaverian Missionaries of the Congo Region held their yearly retreat at the Domus in Bukavu on the theme: “«You Will Be My Witnesses» (Acts 1: 8). Being Wi…

On Sunday, October 29th, 2023, our students in Vamaro-Bukavu, DRC, organised a party with the Xaverian Lay Missionaries. On that occasion, in line with the spirit of the XVIII General Chapter whose t…

Through Flash we share the personal witness of Msgr. Enrico Solmi, Bishop of Parma and 5th successor of St Guido Maria Conforti, which was originally meant as a contribution to the biographical sketc…

“Yesterday [November 5th, 2023 – ed.], the two of us, sons of Mr Guido, gathered with those of Mr John 23 and two young Burmese (members of the Milanese “tribe”), who are here for language studies. A…

On Sunday afternoon, November 5th, we celebrated our holy Founder, Guido Maria Conforti, with a beautiful group of friends, volunteers and acquaintances who accepted the invitation to participate in…

Inviting men and women in consecrated life from the city of Como and its surroundings at the feast of our Founder has become a tradition of the house of Tavernerio (Como, Italy) – a tradition which w…

In communion with our entire Institute, on November 5th, 2023, we celebrated our Founder and father. The day was marked by three events: the renewal of temporary vows, the birth of a new choir linked…

We report here some excerpts from the speech in Spanish that Pope Francis delivered on Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, during the XVIII General Congregation of the Synod: I like to think of the Churc…

Owing to the busy calendar during the preparation and conduct of the XVIII General Chapter, the news bulletin iSaveriani NO. 127, which reports the General Direction’s activities during the General C…

On Sunday, November  5th, 2023, Mrs Rina Lovat, 94-year-old sister of our confrere Fr. Italo Lovat, passed away. The funeral was celebrated on Tuesday, November 7th, 2023, in the parish of Campo…

“The mission ad gentes is the paradigm of the whole mission of the Church, in which the Xaverian charismatic family is also a living memory. It is based on the mystery of the incarnation, whose sourc…

YAOUNDÉ, CAMEROON, INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGATE – JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD: PERPETUAL PROFESSIONS On Saturday, November 4th, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., our confreres Ambrosius Agung Surya Mentaram, Adrianus Sa…

YAOUNDÉ, CAMEROON – OUR LADY OF LAKE YAOUNDÉ PARISH: A NEW DEACON On Saturday, November 11th, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., in the parish of Our Lady of Lake Yaoundé, our confreres Séverin Joseph Marie Mvilo…

From Wednesday, November 8th, to Monday, November 13th, 2023, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez and Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T'Chiribuka, will pay a visit to the brothers of the community of Paris, Nogent Sur…

From Thursday, November 9th, to Monday, November 27th, 2023, Fr. Mauro Loda will pay a visit to the confreres of the Xaverian Circumscription of Colombia. He will also take part in the II Congress o…

“Mission” was among the keywords of the first session of the Synod on synodality, which has just come to an end (4-29 October 2023). The final Synthesis Report dedicates paragraph n. 8 to discuss th…

In his Encyclical Redemptoris Missio (the most recent encyclical on the Church’s mission), St John Paul II writes: “Inter-religious dialogue is a part of the Church's evangelizing mission.” (n. 55) O…

On Saturday, October 28, the community of the Manila Theologate welcomed Bishop Emeritus of our dioceses of Novaliches (Quezon City - Manila), Bishop Antonio Tobias, who is currently in charge for th…

The 15th Gathering of Prayer for War Victims and for Peace, organised by the Risshokoseikai (a Japanese New Religion) under the aegis of the Shoshazan Engyo Temple (Tendai Buddhism), was held on 26 O…

The 6th quarterly update of the digital version of Indirizzario 2022, which contains corrections received over the last three months (July 28th – October 31th, 2023), has been uploaded on our website…

The Assembly of the US Delegation will take place November 5-10, 2023 at Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, Holliston. We will be planning the future of the Delegation in light of the upcoming sale of the Pr…

The papal catechesis on apostolic zeal (October 25th, 2023) continues. Talking about the two brothers and missionaries, St. Cyril and St Methodius, Pope Francis underlined 3 aspects of their missiona…