Associate Notes – April 2013

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]

On Art & Prayer

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]

On Working with Youth Groups

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]

Remember Julian Riley, C.F.X.

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]

Remember Isidore Kuppel, C.F.X.

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]