LIVING THE CHARISM
EXPLORING THE XAVERIAN WAY
Brother Eugene L. Behenna, C.F.X.
For almost a hundred consecutive years, men of the Behenna family of Somerville were faithful members of the Xaverian Brothers. Herbert, later our Brother Guy, became an aspirant in our high school program at the Juniorate in Peabody in the mid 1920s, and…[read more]
Brother William Cushing, C.F.X.
In the summer of 1961, after graduating from St. John’s High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old William Cushing of North Brookfield recognized a call from God to be a disciple of His Son Jesus, as a member of the Brothers…[read more]
Brother James P. Eckert, C.F.X.
Perceptive, outgoing yet private, very humorous yet also serious, down to earth, kind and caring – these are all qualities that I experienced in Brother James Eckert…[read more]
Reflections
The Absence of God
Is this not, rather, the fast that I choose: / releasing those bound unjustly, / untying the thongs of the yoke; / Setting free the oppressed, / breaking off every yoke? / Is it not sharing your bread with the…[read more]
Responsibility and Life
I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live, by loving the Lord, your God, obeying…[read more]
Praying In Secret
“But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.” Matthew 6:6 It would be a great grace of Lent if…[read more]
Receiving Our Inner Child
For along the way the disciples had been discussing among themselves who is the greatest. And Jesus sat down and called the Twelve and said to them: “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be last of all and…[read more]
Why Could We Not Cast It Out?
When Jesus saw that a crowd came running together he rebuked the unclean spirit and said to him: “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you. Go out from him, and never enter him again.” And after shouting and convulsing…[read more]
Faith and Works
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of…[read more]
Call Fulfilled
Brother Eugene L. Behenna, C.F.X.
For almost a hundred consecutive years, men of the Behenna family of Somerville were faithful members of the Xaverian Brothers. Herbert, later our Brother Guy, became an aspirant in our high school program at the Juniorate in Peabody in the mid 1920s, and…[read more]
June 25, 2024
Brother William Cushing, C.F.X.
In the summer of 1961, after graduating from St. John’s High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, eighteen-year-old William Cushing of North Brookfield recognized a call from God to be a disciple of His Son Jesus, as a member of the Brothers…[read more]
June 17, 2024
Latest News
Eighteen Catechumens Take the First Step to Baptism at St. Patrick’s
On June 16at St. Patrick’s Boys Secondary School in South Sudan, 18 young men took their first step toward baptism. Brother Bernard Mujibi prepared the program. Father Vincent, the parish priest for St. Joseph Parish, and a St. Patrick’s priest…[read more]
December 25: The Nativity of the Lord
In recent years I have become rather dependent on using aids on my computer for obtaining driving directions…[read more]
December 24: Christmas Eve
As we prepare for the birth of Christ tomorrow, today’s reading includes one of the most beautiful moments in the Bible…[read more]
Preparation for Perpetual Profession: On Wednesday, January 15 the Program of Preparation for Perpetual Profession (PPP) 2020 will begin at the Generalate of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in Rome. This year there will be 14 participants: 12 Brothers of the Sacred Heart and 2 Xaverian Brothers.
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The conventions of our lives are not only cultural but also personal and biographical. That is, at the deeper levels of our personalities we are most prone to live out with a fair degree of compulsion repetitious behavior.
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For the past two years, Lowell Catholic has asked their students to take photos with a “Flat Ryken,” a paper cut-out of the Founder. Watch a video of pictures the students shared.
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