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Xaverian Family News

Xaverian Theologate Philippines

We are a community composed by students of Theology. We belong to a religious congregation called Xaverian Missionaries and we have come from several countries around the world to the Philippines to complete both our missionary training and our academic formation before professing final vows and being ordained priests. Discover more.

The Adventure of a "Prophet"

Since my arrival in Indonesia about 4 years ago, St. Francis Assisi parish in Aek Nabara (Northern Sumatra) is my second assignment. Our community is made of 3 Xaverian priests (2 Indonesians and myself). The parish is a large one and it has 51 chapels. The suffocating heat, the muddy or dusty roads-according to the seasons-and the long distances we travel to visit those outposts hidden among rubber or oil palm plantations really make our apostolate very exhausting and challenging. Learn more.

World Press Freedom Day 2016

Every year, 3 May is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. Learn more.

theGYM Experience

Samuel Circles

The Samuel Circle is a discernment group for single men considering a call to religious life in the Catholic Church. These Circles meet monthly in various places in Eastern Massachusetts. The next Samuel Circle will be on Sunday evening May 15th at Fatima Shrine, 101 Summer Street, Holliston from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. It will be a time of prayer using Lectio Divina and ending with fellowship and pizza. If anyone is interested in joining us, contact Fr. Rocco.

I Am A Missionary

The Spring 2016 edition of the Xaverian Mission Newsletter is available online. This issue highlights the US XV Provincial Chapter; Fr. Carl's parting words as Provincial; Formation in Asia; Easter in Sierra Leone; the Power of the Resurrection; Xaverians utilizing Social Media and more...

Read it here.

FOUNDER of the XAVERIAN MISSIONARIES

Saint Guido Maria Conforti

Our "missionary to the world" became a saint on World Mission Sunday, October 23, 2011. Now there is a mobile friendly version of our website dedicated to him. Click here to discover more.