Sharing Christ Across Cultures and Faiths
Click for Fresh News of the Xaverian Missionaries Worldwide Network – February 2, 2025
Message of Pope Francis for World Mission Sunday Highlighting our Opportunity in the Jubilee 2025
Contact Fr. Carl Chudy at cchudy@xaverianmissionaries.org. More information here.
Pathways to Peace: A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue with Our Community
Please register below. You can find more information at admin@hollistoninterfaith.org. We are sponsored by Temple Beth Torah, The Metrowest Interfaith Community, The Islamic Society of Greater Milford, and The First Congregational Church of Holliston.
Our Speakers:
Eman Khadra Ansari, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Eman Ansari is a Palestinian-American pediatric pulmonary and critical care physician, a practicing pediatric emergency physician at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is the head of the PICU committee at PCRF and has been active in the space of health and humanitarian aid to Palestine. She’s a mother of four and lives with her husband and children in Newton, MA.
Noam Shoresh, director of computational biology and institute scientist, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Noam grew up in Israel, living first in Tzfat (Safed) and then in Jerusalem. When he was 13, Noam joined the Peace Now youth, and later was part of the founding cohort of the Ratz party youth movement. At the age of 25, after serving in the IDF as well as completing a bachelor’s degree, Noam moved to Seattle to pursue a PhD in physics. Noam has two sons and since 2001 has lived with his family in Newton, MA. Noam is part of a vigil group that has been standing every Sunday since October 2023 in front of the MA State House calling for ceasefire, humanitarian aid, hostage exchange and diplomacy. Noam is also a member of Sawa, a Newton-Area Alliance for Peace and Justice.
Pass it On Again and Again
Enjoy the three-part series of the Xaverian Missionaries and our charism through our Founder, St. Guido Maria Conforti. See Part II here and Part III here.
In the Church’s interfaith movement, one of our unique opportunities is our interfaith solidarity, religious and secular dialogue, and collaboration. We began this work in 2013 by gathering secular humanists and spiritual leaders at our conference center in Coatbridge, Scotland. We continued this work in 2015 by convening a similar conference at Rutgers University in New Jersey, with secular and religious voices seeking common ground. For the last eight years, we have gathered a MeetUp group of religious and secular friends once a month. Search here on our website for a recap of these events, church teaching on understanding the culture of unbelief, and blog posts and articles written for further study. Our conversations now take place directly on Zoom without using Meetup. Contact missionmedia@xaverianmissionaries.org for more information.
LISTENING TO THOSE WHO LEFT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
In America the landscape of the Catholic Church is changing dramatically, as is all religious communities and institutions. The new mission of the Xaverian Missionaries seeks to engage with our Catholic tradition to all outside of the church, Christianity, and even religion itself. The departure of those formed in the Catholic faith is felt in every parish. Disaffiliated families make up the majority of Catholic communities throughout the country.
We listen to those who left the church and sacramental practice lovingly and empathetically.
We root ourselves in these departure narratives, learning about their world and how they walk in it.
We gain deeper insight into the needs, longings, and desires of young people and others, and in dialogue with our tradition, we can change our pastoral maps and parish cultures, beginning in Catholic families.
Catholic Interfaith Solidarity
Check out the latest resources and opportunities for Catholics and others to share our lives, faith, and friendship with people of other faiths and traditions. Click here. Other resources for interfaith dialogue may be found here.
