Welcome to the new format of

A-Cross Borders!

We hope you find our shorter weekly version useful and inspiring. Please let us know what you think.

Pope Francis' prayer intentions for August 2016

Just in time for the Olympics!

Xaverian Family News

Xaverian Missionaries in Thailand

Helping the elderly and the sick; visiting community centers and schools; "Living" the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. See it all on their Facebook page.

theGYM Experience

Fr. Rocco Puopolo SX to Keynote Pax Christi National Assembly

The National Council of Pax Christi USA statement on the challenge of building of the Beloved Community: "In reading the signs of our times, we recognized the destructive political discourse currently gripping our society and call on all Pax Christi USA members and all people of good will to reject the language of violence and disrespect against women, Muslims, immigrants, communities of color and people living in poverty..." Learn more.

Building the Beloved Community: Addressing the Signs of the Times with Bold Conversations Leading to Transformative Actions is the focus and theme of the Pax Christi USA National Gathering this year.

On Sunday, August 14, 2016, Fr. Rocco Puopolo SX, Director of the Xaverian Missionaries' Global Youth Mission services, will be a keynote speaker at the event.

Conforti Institute

Pilgrimage to Lourdes

Fr. John Convery SX spent a week in Lourdes with the St. Margaret of Scotland Youth Group. Discover more. And still more.

United Nations Days

Indigenous Peoples' Day August 9th

International Youth Day

"Young people are not only our future -- they are our present. Our planet has never been so young, with 1.8 billion young women and men. They are the most connected, the most outspoken and the most open-minded generation the world has ever seen." Learn more.

It's Not Impossible!

Connect to the world with the Xaverian Missionaries. The summer newsletter takes you around the world to Burundi and Indonesia and then back home to a Mission Festival in Wisconsin. Read a message from the new US Provincial, Fr. Mark Marangone SX, and the theology of Mercy and Mission by Bishop George Biguzzi SX. Catch up on world and US news 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.