November 5: Feast Day of St. Guido Conforti, Founder of the Xaverian Missionaries
Fr. Carl Chudy, SX On October 23, 2011, on a chilly morning overlooking the Piazza at St. Peter’s in Rome, thousands of pilgrims gathered in a sea of yellow hats and scarfs marking us all as the larger family of the Xaverian Missionaries in 21 countries worldwide. The canonization...
The Final Vows of Sister Susana Miranda Jimenez
On October 8, 2015, Sister Susana Miranda Jimenez professed her final vows as a religious missionary sister with the Xaverian Missionary of Mary Sisters. Sr. Susi (as we lovingly call her) is from Mexico and spent considerable time in her dedication to the Lord and to the global...
Let’s JAM: Believers and Non-Believers Find Common Ground
Jessica Xiao is Project Assistant for the American Humanist Association and this article was take from TheHumanist.com. The Xaverian Missionaries USA collaborated with the AHA in this wonderful project which we hope we create new circles of dialogue, collaboration, and action. “Common ground” is a term that gets used...
Let's JAM: Believers and Non-Believers Find Common Ground
Jessica Xiao is Project Assistant for the American Humanist Association and this article was take from TheHumanist.com. The Xaverian Missionaries USA collaborated with the AHA in this wonderful project which we hope we create new circles of dialogue, collaboration, and action. “Common ground” is a term that gets used...
Interfaith Dialogue is Not as Pointless as We Like to Think
The Xaverian Missionaries USA is collaborating with the American Humanist Association and Rutgers University in New Jersey on a special conference that brings humanists, atheists, and religious believers together to search our common ground, looking to what lies beyond dialogue: collaborative efforts to heal a divided world. We would like...
The transforming power of New York in the life of some Italian Youth
By Fr. Michael Davitti, SX On Wed. August 12th, a group of 22 Youth from Florence, Italy, visited the Xaverian community of Wayne, NJ. They were coming from Columbus, Ohio, where they had been hosted by Central Ohio Technical College. During their stay, they met Senator Jay Hottinger, who...
Called to Ecological Conversion
We ran across this fine reflection that helps us understand the concerns of Pope Francis and the whole Church since the publication of his encyclical, On Care of our Common Home. This reflection was actually given in 2011 which speaks of the concerns of our faith and and stewardship...
Mr. Foday Kamara: Muslim and Catechist
Fr. Louis Birabaluge, SX is a Xaverian Missionary who works in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where the predominant religious faith is Islam. Our relationship with our Muslim friends is very good and we collaborate on many things. Here is a very interesting story of interfaith collaboration. Since 1965, the...
Christian perfection is not the privilege of a few
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai Vatican City August 3, 2015 To read one’s own personal history in faith is often an exercise in deepening the awareness of God’s loving presence in one’s own life. That is why Pope Francis invites us to experience the joy of encountering Christ and to...
THE XAVERIAN MISSIONARIES: 65 YEARS IN SIERRA LEONE (July 1950 – 2015)
By Fr. Vito Scagliuso, SX Driven out of China, where they had been working in the Honan for over 50 years and had founded the dioceses of Cheng-chow and Loyang, the Xaverian Missionaries had to find new hospitable shores in order to continue the work initiated four centuries before...