Posted on April 26, 2013 by The Editor - Community
REGIONAL UPDATES Online Group Brother Jerry O’Leary, Chris Spahr, Chris Roberson, Greg Mason, and Chris Irr met on Google+ Hangouts (a web-based video chat platform) for prayer and discussion on February 23rd between 9 and 11 AM. Jonathan Dohanich, who unfortunately was unable to join the group that morning (he had worked three consecutive overnight-shifts…[read more]
Posted on April 26, 2013 by The Editor - Resources
Dear Associates, On April 10th I had a conference call with the Associates Committee (an advisory committee made up of associates and Brothers: Bill Gorman, Gail Dennig, Mike McGeehin, Barbara Ives, Mike Buckley, Bros. Paul Murray, Cornie Hubbuch, and Cosmas Rubencamp [chair]). We discussed several items, one of which was revisions to the original…[read more]
Posted on April 25, 2013 by The Editor - Community
Brother Edmond Ongoma Juma is a novice at the Xaverian Brothers' International Novitiate in Kipushi, Congo (DRC). He is a skilled artist who rediscovered, through exercises as a postulant, his passion for creating art. In the clip below, Brother Edmond discusses…[read more]
Posted on April 23, 2013 by The Editor - Community
Saints have come in all shapes and sizes, personalities and temperaments. Some like Blessed Mother Teresa were loving, gentle, soft-spoken, and self-effacing. Others like Saint Paul of Tarsus, kind and loving though they be, were…[read more]
Posted on April 18, 2013 by The Editor - Community
Brother Trésor Malenga Nduba is currently a student of biology and chemistry at the I.S.P.--a college in Lubumbashi, DRC. Brother Trésor also works with youth in the local parishes. In the clip below, Trésor discusses some of the goals of the local youth movement…[read more]
Posted on April 16, 2013 by The Editor - Community
The late Brother Celestine Killigrew (November 28) attributed his own vocation to the impact which Brother Julian had on him as a young man at the Good Counsel Annex of Cardinal Hayes High School. It was easy to imagine Julian inspiring vocations. A kind and gentle man…[read more]
Posted on April 9, 2013 by The Editor - Community
In the long and colorful life of Brother Isidore, third Provincial in America, he displayed time and again the distinguishing traits of determination, effort and zeal that brought him many successes. And his solid, boyhood faith stayed with him throughout his life…[read more]
Posted on March 26, 2013 by The Editor - Community
In March 2002, Tom More quoted the following from our Fundamental Principles in an open letter to us brothers in which he was advocating a reflective communication titled "View Point:" You are called by your Founder to…[read more]
Posted on March 19, 2013 by The Editor - Community
In an historical survey entitled THE XAVERIAN STORY IN ZAIRE, written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary in 1981 of the Xaverian Brothers in the Congo (Zaire), Brother Jan Devadder speaks of Brother Paul Scanlon under the heading, “The Vision…[read more]
Posted on March 12, 2013 by The Editor - Community
Faithfulness is Brothers Peter Kelly’s signature gift to the Xaverian Brothers and to the Church. Throughout his seventy years as a Xaverian, Peter’s faithfulness was forged…[read more]
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