Thoughts of a missionary writing to friends and benefactors on his 50th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood “I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength. By calling me into his…

Echos-Lamix, R.D.Congo, L’Eglise en Mission the digital bulletin of the Lay Xaverian Missionaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is out. Contents of this issue include the following topics…

The Catholic daily Avvenire of Tuesday, September 13th, 2022, has published an article titled “Transhumanism: when eternity is a limit.” Its author, journalist Roberto Righetto, cultural editor of th…

On Wednesday, September 21st, the last event of the Summer Meetings 2022 organised by our magazine Missione Oggi will be held in-person and on-line at the San Cristo complex in Brescia. On this occas…

My name is Angela Trezza and I write to you from Battipaglia (Salerno, Italy). I belong to a group of students, girls, and boys, that Providence wished to entrust to the care of the unforgettable Fr…

On Thursday, September 15th, 2022, Fr. Rodolfo Ciroi s.x. celebrated the 64th anniversary of his religious and missionary profession. There were no party, no private celebration, just a fraternal sha…

On Saturday, September 10th, 2022, around 8:15 a.m. (local time), our 88-year old confrere Antonio Mario Tirloni s.x. passed away in the Xaverian house of Alzano Lombardo (Bergamo, Italy). He was…

From Charre (Mozambique), our confrere pe. João Evandro Pereira C. 'writes' to the XVIII GC encouraging our Family to be faithful to the vocation received. His reflections are published in the sectio…

On September 12th, 2022, the Vicar General Fr. Mario Carmelo Mula s.x. and Councillor Fr. Javier Peguero Pérez s.x. will return to Rome after participating in the Assembly of the Delegation of Spain…

Fr. Rocco Viviano s.x attended the 56th Annual Meeting and General Assembly of the Zen-to-Kirisutokyo-Kondankai (Association for Zen-Christian Dialogue), which was held from 30 August to 1 September…

After the rain, I am strolling along a shore of Molveno Lake and rediscover poetry and meditation. The few people I come across seem to regain a human touch. “Buon giorno! Salve!” (Good morning! Hell…

On the notice board of the Mother House in Parma, there is a letter written by Davide, a young man from Puglia that spent one month in the Mother House. Davide regularly spends periods of time in the…

“Editora Vozes” Press has published the doctoral dissertation of our confrere Fr. Stefano Raschietti s.x. Title of this volume is A Missão em Questão (Questioning the Mission), and bears the subtitle…

“The Church in our land, Mexico, asks us to think of our missing sisters and brothers (desaparicidos). We gather in a day of prayer, joining all other parishes, to invoke peace and justice.” This is…

Quaderni del CSA: Errata corrige. It has come to our attention that, unfortunately, the latest issue of Quaderni del CSA contained some errors. The digital version available on the website has alread…

During the entire month of August, I have providentially been in a parish of Reggio Calabria, in the extreme south of Italy, to give my pastoral missionary service. I say ‘providentially’ because I h…

“Casa della Pace” (House of Peace) – a centre established by a group of associations that are using a building inside the compound of the Xaverian missionaries’ Mother House which formerly provided l…

“Seventy-five Years of Discreet and Luminous Presence” is the title of an article published in Presenza, the newspaper of the Diocese of Ancona, for the anniversary of the opening of the former Xaver…

On Saturday, September 3rd, 2022, around 8:30 a.m., 97-year old Sister Maria Chiaro m.m.x. passed away in the Mother House of the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary. She had been taken care of at…

From Djodo Gassa (Tchad), our confrere Antonio Serrano Insausti 'writes' to the XVIII GC reflecting on some important aspects of the journey of our missionary Family. His intervention, published in t…

From September 4th to 12th, Vicar General, Fr. Mario Carmelo Mula, and Councillor Fr. Javier Peguero Pérez will be in the Iberian Peninsula to participate in the yearly Assembly of the Spanish Delega…

We (i.e. seven Italian young people and the present writer) returned to Italy on Wednesday afternoon from a missionary experience (18 days) – an intense moment of life with the six Xaverian fathers a…

On Saturday, August 27th, 2022, the members of the Syro-Malabar community, for whom our Xaverian community in St Pietro in Vincoli provides a meeting venue, celebrated their “SPORTS DAY” in the park…

We, a group of 19 people, arrived at the Xaverian mountain house in Molveno on August 17th, for a sojourn of fifteen days. We were from various parts of Italy: Vicenza, Milano, Brescia, Padova, Udine…

La vita lunga. Lezioni sulla vecchiaia (Long Life. Lessons on Old Age) is the title of the volume edited by Giuseppe Romano (Solferino Publisher, Milan 2022, pp. 224, 17 Euros) which collects the tex…

Participants in Via Lucis 2022 stopped in Parma where they visited the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography. There was no better place for beginning to sense, right away, the audacity of Msgr. Confo…

Please, be informed that the only personal electronic address (email) used by Dr Gildo Coperchio s.x. is: [email protected] However, he may also be contacted at: [email protected]  Thanks.

On Sunday, August 28th, 2022, Mrs Maria Cesani née Bruletti passed away. She was 95. Mrs Maria was the sister-in-law of our confrere, Br. Rodolfo Cesani s.x.. Br. Rodolfo belongs to the Community o…

Today, a newsletter was sent to all the confreres to present the section on the DG website dedicated to the journey of preparation for the XVIII General Chapter. It will…

On Sunday, August 28th, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., in the church of Mary Queen of the Apostles Parish, Kaniola, Archdiocese of Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC, our confrere Pasteur Mugisho Bisimwa s.x. will be ord…

On Thursday, August 25th, 2022, the Superior General, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez s.x., returned to Rome after a visit to the Delegation of the U.S.A.

On Saturday, August 27th, 2022, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chirubuka s.x. returned to Rome from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

From Monday 29th, August to Friday 23rd September 2022, the General Direction will hold the 22nd session of the General Council.

A mass on the 50th anniversary of the Marian Shrine of Kavinvira (Uvira, D. R. Congo) was celebrated on Sunday, August 21st, 2022. Both the bishop of Uvira, Msgr. Sébastien, who presided over the Euc…

For three days, from the evening of August 15th to the morning of August 18th, three young people were guests of our community. They participated in the Taiwan Youth Day, organized this year by the A…

The updated digital edition (August 27th, 2022) of Personnel Directory 2022 (Stato del Personale 2022) can be downloaded from the GD’s website. As always, thanks to the circumscription superiors and…

Periodically, we return to our country of origin and village; we return to where everything started: our life, our belonging to a faith community, our Xaverian vocation, and our first departure. It s…

Our probation (probandato) community (“TUNAS” or propedeutics) has been blessed with the gift of six new candidates – six young men that, for the time being, have asked to join our missionary family…

On August 12th, 2022, while travelling through Rome, our confrere, Bishop Natale Paganelli s.x., apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Makeni (Sierra Leone), was interviewed by Vatican News (Vati…

On Monday, August 22nd, 2022, after a short illness, Mrs. Margaret Maguire, sister of our confrere Fr. Archibald Casey s.x., passed away in Hairmyires Hospital, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire. Fr…

On Saturday, August 20th, 2022, at 12:00 a.m., in the church of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Torreón City, State of Coahuila, Mexico, our confrere Ignacio Torres Fabela s.x. will be ordained priest thr…

On Saturday, August 20th, 2022, at 5:00 p.m., in the church of Immaculate Conception Parish, Cantagalo, State of Paraná, Brazil, our confrere Everson Luiz Kloster s.x. will be ordained priest through…

On Sunday, August 28th, 2022, at 10:00 a.m., in the church of Mary Queen of the Apostles Parish, Kaniola, Archdiocese of Bukavu, South Kivu, DRC, our confrere Pasteur Mugisho Bisimwa s.x. will be ord…

On Friday, August 19th, 2022, Fr. Eugenio Pulcini s.x. returned to Rome after a visit to the Delegation of the Philippines.

The so-called “digital continent” is made up by an impressive array of websites, platforms like the social media, apps, electronic devices, algorithms, artificial intelligence, virtual and mixed real…

On Wednesday, August 17th, 2022, Indonesia celebrated its 77th Independence Day under the theme “Recover Faster, Rise Up Stronger ── Pulih Lebih Cepat Bangkit Lebih Kuat.” This big theme represents t…

On August 20th, the Xaverian Missionary Sisters of Mary celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Mother Celestina Bottego’s “birth into heaven” (August 20th, 1980). She is the foundress  – with Fr. Gia…

The website of the GD has posted the beautiful testimony of Michelle, a young woman form Côte d'Ivoire who works for the UN in Uvira: Kilomoni, Ce que représente pour moi la présence des Missionnair…

The national summer camp of the Xaverian Laity in Italy, attended by more than 50 participants in-person and others on-line, took place in a deep spirit of sharing and reflection. The result of this…

Suddenly, just the whole world is talking about Taiwan and the winds of war that now seem blowing stronger. This should already suggest some caution in trying to understand the evolution of the situa…