The April 2023 issue of the Italian magazine Cuore Amico (Friendly Heart) dedicates its cover to Fr. Graziello Querzani s.x. (Maison Régionale, Bukavu). The inside pages present the activities of a p…

With deep gratitude and admiration, we share a message Mrs Emilia Bacuzzi Bonfanti sent after concluding her long and precious service as President of GAMS (Gruppo Amici dei Missionari Saveriani - Gr…

During March 2023, in answer to a request from an agency founded by a priest of Turin, we welcomed four migrants. They will remain with us for few months till they find an accommodation for themselve…

In Japan, the proclamation of Christ’s resurrection is carried out also through a theatrical piece. This initiative was organised and realised in South Korea to mark recent steps taken towards a rapp…

The grain of wheat, sown 120 years ago by our founder, St Guido Maria Conforti, continues and, hopefully, will continue to sprout. With this anticipation and utopia in our hearts, we wish a Happy Eas…

We suggest an intriguing reflection on popular piety as “the immune system of the Church” (pope Francis), the place where our people most willingly gather to express their faith in simplicity… A ref…

The Xaverian Laity’s wishes of Happy Easter 2023 coincide with the publication of the February and March 2023 issue of their “Agenda”. Here, the Confortian text, which as is customary opens this bull…

The successor of Peter’s catechesis on Evangelisation continues, with a particular focus on “apostolic zeal” as viewed and described by St Paul in his letters. Pope Francis states in an evocative ma…

On Tuesday, April 11th, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. (local time), Fr. Giovanni Battista Pedrotti, 88, passed away in the house of his niece Chiara Pedersoli, in Esine (Brescia, Italy). The Requiem Mass and fu…

Fr. Enzo Tonini writes to Dear Chapter sharing a very interesting reflection in which he presents what he desires from the next General Chapter: A basic freedom and a clear horizon: the mission. Read…

"Loving our Xaverian vocation" sends us to the roots of ourselves, of our identity in the Church, of what we are and what we are called to be. «O God, Creator and Father, I, NN following Jesus, your…

We suggest reading an interview Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, shepherd of the Diocese of Kalookan, in the outskirts of Manila, the Philippines, gave to the Italian missionary magazine Mondo e Missione…

The first video-episode of the series 70 Anos do Presença no Brasil (70 Years of Presence in Brazil) is dedicated to an interview given by bishop-elect Msgr. Paulo Andreolli s.x. The video production…

Mrs Paola Curti, a familiar face for many Xaverians and a long-standing member of the Group of Friends of the Xaverian Missionaries (GAMS), sends (April 2nd, 2023) best wishes to all friends for a Ha…

Honoré Irakiza s.x., student of theology in the International Theologate of Kinshasa (DRC) has written a reflection on the Theological Wisdom in Burundian Proverbs that has appeared in https://afriqu…

I remember I spent my year of Novitiate in Nizza Monferrato. At that time, the master of novices was Fr. Francesco Cavallo. At present, I don’t remember how many of us then made their first professio…

75 children coming with their parents from the township of Forlimpopoli (province of Forlì-Cesena) stayed with us for the celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation on the occasion of Palm Sunday…

The magazine Missione Oggi, in collaboration with the journal Missionari Saveriani, Edizioni Paolini, the diocese of Brescia, and with the support of Brescia Province and the Catholic University of t…

Today, March 31st, Newsletter No. 4 was sent to all the confreres. It is dedicated to the preparation for the 18th General Chapter and edited by the Preparatory Committee. It is part of our commitmen…

On Saturday, April 15th, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. (local time), our confrere, Msgr. Paolo Andreolli, will be ordained bishop in the cathedral of Belém (Pará) for the service of auxiliary bishop of the Arch…

Since late 2022 the UK Xaverian Region has supported and nurtured a new initiative in Scotland. The aim is to create a Scottish Catholic Theological Forum, that is a collaborative venture led by Scot…

“Freddy” is perhaps the longest-lasting tropical cyclone ever recorded. Its fury hit southern Africa, in particular Madagascar, Mozambique, and Malawi. It struck Mozambique twice: firstly, in late Fe…

On Tuesday, March 21st, 2023, on Poetry Day, shortly before the beginning of Ramadan, the “Riad Sultan” Art and Culture Forum organised an event in the city of Tangier to pay tribute to the Sufi poet…

The yearly Cultural Forum of the Museum of Kivu located in the Xaverian house of Bukavu was held on March 25th, 2023. Theme of the event: “Re-thinking Modern Education: Fr. Domenico Milani’s Legacy t…

Last week, the course on Confucianism, Hinduism and Buddhism offered at the Loyola School of Theology in the Ateneo de Manila, The Philippines, by the visiting professors Umberto Bresciani (from Taip…

On Saturday, April 15th, 2023, an interactive workshop for children between 5 and 9, titled Cantando per il mondo alla ricerca della tigre (Going singing around the world in search for the tiger), wi…

To prepare for the 70-year anniversary of the Xaverian Missionaries’ presence in Brazil (1953-2023), MissioNet (Fr. Héctor Gabriel Arroyo Salcido s.x.), in collaboration with the confreres of the Sou…

The paper edition (updated on March 10th, 2023) of Personnel Directory 2023 (Stato del Personale 2023) is out and will soon be sent to the circumscriptions. On the GD’s website the digital edition (a…

Fr. Zezinho Leoni shares his young missionary spirit with all of us. The confrere, 82 years old and currently in Brazil, describes to Dear Chapter the dream of a missionary spring: «The next Chapter…

I arrived in Thailand on November 12th, 2022, with great enthusiasm, after my first missionary assignment, following my priestly ordination. Since then, I have joined a new family, which is our mixed…

“…in recent days, while I was getting rid of many things that had piled up, I came across the holy card of my first Mass. In that card, many years ago, I wrote: So that they should know you, the only…

Fr. Augusto Fermo Azzolini s.x. was the first bishop of the Diocese of Makeni from 1952 to 1986. Born in Roccabianca, Parma, (Italy), he entered the Congregation of the Xaverian Missionaries for his…

The confreres of the Theologate in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, continue to make and share a series of reflections on native cultures. Fr. Katindi Ramazani s.x. writes in his research: “Sometimes, we, the…

On the evening of Wednesday, March 22nd, in the enchanting setting of the church of San Francesco del Prato in Parma, a religious play by Giuseppe Marchetti (who has been the director of the cultural…

The catechesis on the passion for evangelisation continues (March 22nd, 2023):  Apostolic zeal “also entails the ability to change the ways of understanding and living [one’s] evangelizing pres…

Exegesis in Late Ming China as Exemplified in “A Direct Explanation of the Holy Scripture” by the Jesuit Yang Ma Nuo is the title of our confrere Fr. Luigino Marchioron’s doctoral thesis that Mo…

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023, 78-year-old Mrs Rosalina Rantetana passed away in Tonglo, Toraja South Sulawesi (Indonesia). Mrs. Rosalina is the mother of our confrere Fr. Gerpasius Rantetana Sangla. Th…

Who writes to Caro Capitolo this week is the Cameroonian confrere Maurice Fokam, a missionary of the Evangelii Gaudium generation, as he calls himself. Fr. Fokam, who has been working in Indonesia fo…

The Xaverian Missionaries arrived in Morocco in October and November 2020. They now work in the Archdiocese of Tangier, in the north of the nation. From May 24th, 2019, this Archdiocese had become va…

Almost four months have passed since Fr. Augustin Byamungu Mahanga s.x. and I arrived in Thailand, and it seems like it was yesterday. The first thing I did when I set foot on Thai soil was to place…

As my disability and age grow, the final meeting with the Lord becomes clearer and frank. My “bodywork” is old and occasionally loses parts. I feel like I am playing a game with the Lord. His moves…

On 14 March, Fr. Rocco Viviano s.x. gave the opening lecture at the annual symposium the ‘Study Group on the Role of Religion in Modern Times’ (or CORMOS). This Association, created in 1971, is compo…

Last Tuesday, March 14th, 2023, we the confreres in the Region gathered in our Regional House in Makeni for our On-Going Formation Meeting in the first quarter of the year. Topic for our reflection…

The missionary experience in Burundi allowed me to spend the 5 best years of my life. Despite constant difficulties and deprivations, I felt happy and fully fulfilled both on a human level and on a C…

  Pope Francis’ catechesis continues. On Wednesday, March 8th, 2023, he reflected on the Decree Ad Gentes 2-6 and 9. … In omnibus Christus (“that God may be all in all.”, 1Cor 15:28) is a fund…

From March 6th to 10th, 2023, the C.E.M.L.A. (Centro de Estudios Misioneros LatinoAmericanos) yearly meeting of missiological reflection was held in the Xaverian House of Mazatlán, also site of the I…

Below, we report some confreres’ contributions (2022) on the subject of evangelization: Our confrere Fr. Franco Benigni authored “Reforma Protestante y Reforma Católica. ¿Cuál Cristianismo 500 años…

Friday, March 3rd, 2023, 82-year-old Mrs Angela Michela Abatemattei (neé Corigliano) passed away in Fragagnano (Taranto, Italy). Mrs Angela Michela was the sister of our late confrere Fr. Cosimo Cori…

"El corazón de nuestro proyecto" is the title of the letter written this week to 'Dear Chapter' by Fr. Alejandro Rodríguez Gómez, a Mexican confrere who, after working for several years in the Phil…

Several Diocesan Associations of Parma, the Community of Sant’ Egidio, the Council of Christian Churches in Parma, along with the Xaverian Missionaries and Xaverian Sisters, promoted and took part in…