On Saturday, August 28th – 2021, Mr. Giovanni Paolo, father of our confrere Fr. Marco Moro s.x., passed away. The funeral Mass was celebrated on Wednesday, September 1st – 2021, in the parish Church…

“St. Guido Maria Conforti: An All-Round Missionary” is the title that Fr. Dante Volpini s.x. has given to his elaborate reflection whose summary we present here. Born in 1940, Fr. Dante spent almost…

From Monday August 30th to Saturday September 18th – 2021, the Xaverian General Council will meet. Among the main themes are: the detailed preparation of the Intercapitular CoSuMa (Tavernerio, Septem…

The Intercapitular CoSuMa will take place in the Xaverian House of Tavernerio, from September 26th to October 10th – 2021. The theme of this meeting is: “The Ad Gentes as challenge to and identifying…

On Sunday, October 3rd – 2021, all members of the CoSuMa will move to Parma to take part in the Eucharistic Celebration that will mark the official closing of the Xaverian Jubilee Year (originally sc…

On Wednesday, September 29th – 2021, in the course of the CoSuMa work, the planned celebration of a Penitential Liturgy of the entire Xaverian Family will be held in the context and spirit of the Jub…

“The Tenth General Chapter of the Xaverian Sisters was supposed to take place a year ago, from the 7th to the 26th of September 2020.  Twice, the pandemic has forced us to postpone it for securi…

This meeting, which took place in Rome, at the Generalate, on August 23rd and 24th - 2021, has become a tradition that over the years has given significant fruits of knowledge of the Italian reality…

On Monday 23 August 2021, a solemn session was held in the Hall of the Municipal Council of Laranjeiras do Sul during which the city gave special recognition to the Xaverians for their missionary wor…

“Here in Yaoundé, we are waiting for the arrival of the last community members on September 3rd. The group – 16 young men and 4 members of the formation team – will begin the community year with a sp…

The updated edition of the Xaverian Personnel Directory 2021 is available for download on the GD website. We invite confreres to report mistakes, repetitions, changes of electronic addresses or telep…

The Jubilee Year for the 100th anniversary of the Testament Letter and the first Constitutions (1921) is a favorable time to strengthen our sense of belonging to the Xaverian charism. So writes in th…

On Monday, August 23rd – 2021, our Superior general, Fr. Fernando Garcìa Rodriguez s.x., will return to Rome after two weeks spent with 21 confreres from the various Xaverian Circumscriptions in Afri…

On Thursday, August 26th - 2021, the general councillor, Fr. Fabien Kalehezo T’Chiribuka s.x., will return to Rome after a year (15.09.2020) spent mainly in Kinshasa - DRC as the responsible for the…

Today, Saturday, August 21st, 2021, in Arandas, Jalisco (Mexico), at the Parish Temple of the Holy Spirit, our confreres Irvin Alonso Gutiérrez Hernández s.x. (from León, Gto. – Mexico) and Tufan Joe…

The 21 confreres gathered in Mbudi - Kinshasa for the Ongoing Formation, before returning to their respective circumscriptions, wrote a final message to the Xaverian family. The title of the message…

Recent torrential rains in Japan have caused great damage, many displaced persons and even some deaths in different areas. The provinces of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were particularly hit. These two are…

The Lord continues to bless our Philosophy community with four new candidates that come from different areas of the Philippines: three from the southern part of the country and one from the National…

Friday, August 13th – 2021. We were in the port of Goma (DRC) at 7:00 a.m.  About 200 people entered the Mugote boat that would take them from Goma to Bukavu. The arrival was scheduled six hours…

September 5-10, 2021 God willing, after about 18 months of date changes due to covid-19, the US Xaverian Regional Community will gather at Miramar Retreat Center, run by the SVD Missionaries, at Dux…

On Sunday, August 15th – 2021, the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, the Syrian-Malabar Indian Catholic community gathered at our house for the celebration of the Eucharist and for the celebration…

XAVERIAN DOCUMENTATION CENTRE – ROME Volumes 22, 23, 24 and 25 of the Confortian Sources edited by Teodori (Fonti Confortiane Teodoriane, or FCT) have been published online on CDSR: FTC n. 22: Ac…

Giacone Publishing House (Recanati, Macerata) has published three volumes of translations into Italian of 65 ancient fairy tales rewritten in Bengali by our former confrere Lucidio Ceci (he was in Ba…

On Friday, August 13th – 2021, Mr Pierre Katende, uncle of Fr. Paulin Batairwa Kubuya s.x., died in Bukavu (DRC). Fr. Paulin is a member of the community in the house of the General Direction: paulba…

Fr. Antonio Germano s.x. has kindly accepted the invitation to write down some personal thoughts on the Testament Letter while in quarantine on the second floor of the General House. His is a brief a…

Saturday, August 14th – 2021, Quatro Bocas, Tomé-Açu (Pará): Today, at 6:00 p.m., in the parish of São Francisco Xavier, Diocese of Abaetetuba, our confrere Lucivaldo de Sousa Costa s.x. will be orda…

Saturday, August 21st, 2021, in Arandas, Jalisco (Mexico), at the Parish Temple of the Holy Spirit, our confreres Irvin Alonso Gutiérrez Hernández s.x. (from León, Gto. – Mexico) and Tufan Joel Mitra…

The commendable and fortunate series of short biographies of some living and already deceased Xaverians edited by our confreres Louis Birabaluge s.x. and Jean Dieudonné Ndaboroheye s.x. continues. F…

August 8th, 2021. Four young men – Bruno, Leonan, Diego and Fábio – have entered the Xaverian seminary of Ananindeua (Pará), Centro Xaveriano de Animação Missionária of the North-Brazil Circumscripti…

The on-going formation program for young confreres engaged in ad gentes mission in the African continent, which is being held at the Centre Théophile Verbist - Mbudi in Kinshasa (RD Congo), has…

Our confrere Pietro Rossini s.x. has published the latest episode of his podcast “Mission Outlook”. This episode deals with the issue of those who leave the Church: Why is this happening? What are di…

On Thursday, August 05th, 2021, Mrs Eulalia Álvarez Casillas, sister of our confrere Fr. Enrique Álvarez Casillas, has passed away in the hospital of Tepatitlán, Jal. – Mexico. Her burial has taken p…

On Friday, August 13th, 2021, at 4:00 p.m., the funeral of Mr Angelo Salvadori (passed away on July 23rd, 2021) was celebrated in the Parish Church of the Assumption, in Facca (Cittadella, Padua). Mr…

This week ‘resonance’ comes from Sierra Leone and has been written by Fr. Vincenzo Munari, s.x. Fr. Vincenzo was born in 1939 and has been in Sierra Leone since 1980. In 1986 he was recalled to Italy…

Saturday, August 14th – 2021, at 6:00 p.m., in Quatro Bocas, Tomé-Açu (Pará), in the parish of São Francisco Xavier, Diocese of Abaetetuba, our confrere Lucivaldo de Sousa Costa s.x. will be ordained…

From August 1 to 15, 2021, 21 young confreres engaged in the mission ad gentes in Africa gathered at the Center Théophile Verbist - Mbudi in Kinshasa in RD. Congo for a time of aggiornamento, togethe…

Our confrere Fr. Vitus Rubianto Solichin, s.x. will be consecrated Bishop in the Cathedral of  Padang, Sumatra (Indonesia) by His Excellency Bishop Piero Pioppo, Apostolic Nuncio to Indonesia…

On Thursday, July 29th – 2021, the premiere of Turandot took place in Verona, a work included in the official program of the 98th Opera Festival at the Arena di Verona. Turandot, Giacomo Puccini’s…

On Saturday afternoon, July 31st – 2021, the online Meeting of “The Leigos Missionarios Xaverianos” (Lay Xaverian Missionaries) of Southern Brazil took place to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of S…

Reprehensible acts and heinous crimes that constitute “a serious attack on freedom of religion and expression, but also a violation of democracy; a great step backwards in the path towards the rule o…

XAVERIAN DOCUMENTATION CENTRE – ROME. We would like to point out the online publication by the CDSR  of the scanned copy of other 4 volumes from the Confortian Sources edited by Teodori (Fo…

On Monday, August 2nd – 2021, Mr. Miguel González de la Torre, father of our Xaverian Confrere Fr. Carlos González Degadillo, died. The funeral celebration took place in the Parish Temple of “San Fra…

This week ‘resonance’ has been written by a married couple. Its title is: “La Lettre Testament: un message pour des mariés aussi” (The Testament Letter: A message also for married people). This cou…

On Wednesday, July 28th, 2021, Fr. Fernando García Rodríguez left for the Democratic Republic of Congo. He will participate – together with Fr. Fabian Kalehezo T’Chiribuka s.x. – in the two weeks (1-…

The General Direction participated in the three days (July 27th -29th , 2021) of online training on interculturality, organized by the Missionary Institutes. The meetings were directed by the team of…

The Xaverian Community of Salamanca celebrated (July 18th – 2021), with great joy, the First Religious Missionary Profession of three Novices: José Alejandro Gómez Serrano s.x., Adán Flores Hernández…

Morocco has entered a new phase of the vaccination campaign: it has eliminated the conditions related to domicile or residence. Now citizens can go to the nearest Vaccination Centre to receive vaccin…

The updated edition (July 31st) of the Personnel Directory 2021 (Stato del Personale 2021) can be downloaded from the GD’s website. We invite Xaverian confreres to continue reporting errors, changes…

N. 119 of iSaveriani–Notiziario is available for download. This latest issue opens with an editorial by Fr. General. In addition to official communications and news about the activities of the GD, th…

On Saturday, July 24th – 2021, Mrs. Annunziata Maccioni Melis, mother of our confrere Fr. Antonino Melis s.x., passed away. Fr. Antonino (Tonino) belongs to the Xaverian community of Bongor, Dioces…