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World Youth Day
Krakow, Poland July 25 - 31, 2016
World Youth Day expands far beyond the physical gathering of the Holy Father that hosts millions of young people from across the world. World Youth Day is a call to all Catholic youth and young adults to renew their faith in Christ and prepare themselves for the work of the new evangelization that lies ahead. By celebrating with a diocese, parish, a group of young adults, friends, family, or watching it online, this is possible whether they are able to make the trip to the host city or choose to celebrate it in their home diocese. Discover more. If you are lucky enough to make the trip, make sure to bring comfortable shoes! Visitors to World Youth Day will have to walk 18 miles to and from one of the main sites in Krakow! Learn more.
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Christians and Muslims Celebrate BaptismOn the day of the feast of Pentecost (May 15th), the Lord added ten new members to our Christian community in the parish of Mongo Bendugu, Our Lady Queen of the Apostles (Diocese of Makeni/Sierra Leone). An event which was meant to be an internal Christian community feast, ended up being a nice experience of inter-religious dialogue, both for Christians and Muslims. Learn more.
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Youth Conferences and Service Camps in Wisconsin
This week Fr. Alex Rodriguez SX will be giving a hand at Marquette University during the "Alive in You" program which will run from Tuesday to Sunday. He will be celebrating mass and helping with the sacrament of reconciliation. A the same time, he will be also participating in the Inspirio Youth Ministries Revolution of the Heart summer camp.
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London: Young Adult Masses at Farm Street
This Young Adult Ministry, based at Mount Street Jesuit Centre, serves people in their 20s and 30s in London.
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Let us all be part of the bridge that spans the gulfs of fear and hate between us.
In the aftermath of an ambush that left five police officers dead in Dallas, Archbishop Blase J. Cupich of Chicago said, "Every corner of our land is in the grip of terror ... It is time to break the cycle of violence and retaliation, of fear and powerlessness, that puts more guns in our homes and on our streets." Learn more.
Fr. Carl Chudy SX offers this poem by Scott Cairns on the Xaverian Missionaries Facebook page.
EVENING PRAYER And what would you pray in the troubled midst
of this our circular confusion save
that the cup be taken away? That the chill
and welling of the blood might suffer by His
hushed mercy to abate, to calm the legion
dumb anxieties as each now clamors
to be known and named? The road has taken
on, of late, the mute apprearance of a grief
whose leaden gravity both insists on speed
and slows the pilgrim's progress to a crawl.
At the least he's found his knees. I bear a dim
suspicion that this circumstance will hold
unyielding hegemony until the day.
What would you pray at the approach of this
late evening? What ask? And of whom?
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 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...
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.
 FOUNDER of the XAVERIAN MISSIONARY SISTERS OF MARY |
Come Pass It On Again!
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