WORLD FOOD DAY: HELP END WORLD HUNGER
Click to enlarge and learn more October 16 is World Food Day, which is dedicated to the increased awareness of global hunger issues. As we approach World Food Day, our attention remains focused on East Africa, facing its worst drought in 60 years and leaving 12 million people uncertain...
Marking the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of three Xaverian Missionaries
Fr. Aldo Marchiol On September 30, the Xaverian Missionaries and the whole Church remembers the martyrdom of two Xaverian priests, Frs. Aldo Marchiol, Ottorino Maule, and a Xaverian lay missionary, Catina Gubert. These Xaverian martyrs were meek and resolute: they didn’t choose their end, but they chose the premises...
High Holy Days 5772 (2011) Rosh Hashanah
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Rabbi David Rosen wrote for the Vatican’s conference on Christian-Jewish Relations, “In his visit to the Rome synagogue in 1986, Pope John Paul II referred to the Jewish people as “the beloved elder brothers of the Church”. He developed this idea with his own...
Fr. Salicone Speaks on Mission in St. Louis
Fr. Salicone shared the work of global mission with leaders in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Here is a heads up from their website. Fr. Aniello Salicone of the Xaverian Missionaries spoke at the July Moderators meeting. Fr. Aniello was born in Italy in 1940, and in 1961 he left...
Getting Ready for World Mission Sunday 2011
On the 23rd of October 2011, World Mission Sunday will be celebrated throughout the universal Catholic Church. For us Xaverian Missionaries, it is also a momentous occasion as our Founder, St. Guido Maria Conforti, will be proclaimed a new missionary saint of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI in...
Crash Course in Changing the World
Christ called us as a Church to change the world. One way to help look at what that may be like, is through a computer game called EVOKE. The missions involve social innovation, food security, justice, and more which crucial concerns of our faith. EVOKE is a social network...
FRONTLINE: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE. This extraordinary film attempts to look at the spiritual issues in the wake of 9/11 and the devastation it caused, how it changed us all. Our questions of faith and doubt, religion, our neighbors and ourselves. After watching this share your questions...
A Time for Remembrance, Resolve and Renewal: Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Archbishop Timothy DolanPresident, United States Conference of Catholic BishopsSeptember 8, 2011 As we commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York,Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon, it is a time for remembrance, resolve andrenewal. We reverently recall those who were most directly affected by this...
IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA
With unprecedented access, this intimate documentary goes behind the scenes with Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. The film explores the challenges facing the new president and the extraordinary women surrounding her. After nearly two decades of brutal civil war, Liberia...
Ordinations of the Xaverian Missionaries in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa, where we have served as missionaries since the early 1960’s, the celebration of new missionary priests of the Xaverian Missionaries was surely a day of great joy and celebration. There names are: FR. CIBAMBO RUBIBI BERNARD WHO WAS SENT TO...