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Volume 63 - No. 1 | February 2015
Newsletter
X averian Missionaries
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May this Year of Consecrated Life also be an occasion for confessing humbly, with immense confidence in the God who is Love (cf. 1 Jn
4:8), our own weakness and, in it, to experience the Lords merciful love. May this
Year likewise be an occasion for bearing vigorous and joyful witness before the world
to the holiness and vitality present in so many of those called to follow Jesus in the
consecrated life.
franklin@xaviermissionaries.org
This Year also calls us to live the present with passion. Grateful remembrance of the
past leads us, as we listen attentively to what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church
today, to implement ever more fully the essential aspects of our consecrated life...
...The Year of Consecrated Life challenges us to examine our fidelity to the mission
entrusted to us. Are our ministries, our works and our presence consonant with what
the Spirit asked of our founders and foundresses? Are they suitable for carrying out
today, in society and the Church, those same ministries and works? Do we have the
same passion for our people? Are we close to them to the point of sharing in their
joys and sorrows, thus truly understanding their needs and helping to respond to
them? The same generosity and self-sacrifice which guided your founders, Saint
John Paul II once said, must now inspire you, their spiritual children, to keep alive
the charisms which, by the power of the same Spirit who awakened them, are constantly being enriched and adapted, while losing none of their unique character. It is
up to you to place those charisms at the service of the Church and to work for the
coming of Christs Kingdom in its fullness.
holliston@xaviermissionaries.org
Publisher
Fr. Carl Chudy
Communications Board
Fr. Carl Chudy SX
Fr. Tony Lalli SX
Fr. Rocco Puopolo SX
Fr. Aniello Salicone SX
That old saying will always be true: Where there are religious, there is joy. We are
called to know and show that God is able to fill our hearts to the brim with happiness; that we need not seek our happiness elsewhere; that the authentic
fraternity found in our communities
increases our joy; and that our total
self-giving in service to the Church, to
families and young people, to the
elderly and the poor, brings us lifelong personal fulfilment....
Editor
Mary Aktay
Printing
AlphaGraphics, Totowa, NJ
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n South Sudan late November marks the end of the rainy season.
Unfortunately there are thickening clouds and thunder of another
kind, that of unending conflict. Peace occurs only in words
while war remains a daily fact.
In September the South Sudanese bishops declared solemnly that the war in southern Sudan is immoral. There is no
moral justification for continuing to kill. We cannot accept any excuse provided by any party or individual to the continuation of the war. The fighting and the killings must cease immediately and unconditionally. Declare before God
that it is unethical for any party continue to use violence to advance their political agenda.
Da pacem, Domine, in diebus nostris, quia non est alius qui pro nobis pugnet, nisi tu Deus noster.
Give peace, O Lord, in the days of our lives, for there is none other who fights for us, but only thou, O God,
our God.
Xaverian Mission Newsletter February 2015
South Sudan
Snapshots
continued
DUST WATER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
They were
born again of
water and
the Holy
Spirt.
George Biguzzi SX
Fr. Joeven (left) joins Fr. Eugenio Pulcini SX (second from left),
former rector of the theology of Manila, with fellow graduates
now missionary priests in West Africa
The Congregation`s dynamic characteristics ad gentes, ad extra and ad vitam (mission to those who do
not know Christ, beyond our boarders and for a lifetime) are not just words on paper to be placed on
a shelf and admired from afar. Instead, they are the actual life experience of the Xaverians. They are
not just some collective thoughts that remain a dream. They are embodied in a true life story that we
can share with others, a reality that we can touch, embrace and experience through our senses and
faculties.
Fr. Joeven (front row center) with the Xaverians in Sierra Leone
The Testament of
on Consecrated Life
Xaverians in Mexico
Catechist in Indonesia
AMERICA/MEXICO
The Bishops of Central
America discuss the issue
regarding assistance to
migrants
ASIA/INDONESIA
Indonesian Bishops and
priests inspired by the
Evangelii Gaudium in
prayer and action
Semarang (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis
Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium
is a valuable document in Indonesia for
meditation, prayer and for the pastoral
service of Bishops and priests in
Indonesia and continues to inspire their
actions. The document was at the center
of the last assembly of Indonesian bishops
and is a useful guide for the pastoral
ASIA/PHILIPPINES
The Pope shows deep
compassion for the victims of the Typhoon
HOLLISTON HOSTS
MONTHLY MINIRETREATS
Pope Francis has asked that we
celebrate the Year of Consecrated
Life from November 2014 to February 2016. Also 2015 is the 50th
anniversary of the Vatican II Mission
Document Ad Gentes. To bring
PAPAL BLESSING
BESTOWED ON
LEADERS OF WEST
ESSEX MISSIONARY
LEAGUE
Fr. Frank Grappoli SX presented the Papal
Blessing of His Holiness, Pope Francis to
Anne Petrarca (president) Nancy Romanyshyn (co-president) and all the members
of the West Essex Missionary League for
their outstanding service and generosity to
the Xaverian Missionaries and the Global
Mission of the Catholic Church.
MONTHLY MEETUP AT
PROVINCIAL HOUSE
Conversations Among Humanists, Atheists
and Religious Believers seeks dialogue
among atheists and religious believers.
Our meetings are wonderfully rich, with a
diverse group: atheists and theists. Our conversation is on doing good, with or without
God. How can religious people, atheists and
humanists find ways to bring good into the
world together?
On our first gathering of 2015 on Feb. 1st
we participated in the United Nations
annual program, Interfaith Harmony Week.
For this special occasion we looked at an
interesting talk given by Alain de Botton for
TED (TED is a global community, welcoming
people from every discipline and culture
who seek a deeper understanding of the
world) entitled Atheism 2.0. In it de Botton
ponders: What aspects of religion should
atheists (respectfully) adopt?
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