Posted on May 28, 2013 by The Editor - Community
The old adage, “Once a Marine, always a Marine” certainly applied to Brother Thomas Reidy. The mili-tary bearing from his time with the Marines never left him, and his novitiate classmates affectionately called him “Captain Reidy.” After graduating from Archbishop Stepinac High School, where he met the Xaverian Brothers, and Providence College, John Edmond joined…[read more]
Posted on May 21, 2013 by The Editor - Community
Born desperately poor, a Protestant in a Catholic part of Ireland, James Wallace was brought up by his grandmother. He left school at 13, preferring to be outdoors in the country working on the farm and in the fields with the animals. He thus learned a lot about nature and retained throughout his life a…[read more]
Posted on May 14, 2013 by The Editor - Community
This article was originally published in a series of reflections based on the lives of Xaverian Brothers who have played influential roles in the life and development of the Congregation in America. They are written in commemoration of the Xaverian Brothers 150th Anniversary of their arrival in America in 1854. Written by Brother Frederick Codair,…[read more]
Posted on May 7, 2013 by The Editor - Community
This article was originally published in a series of reflections based on the lives of Xaverian Brothers who have played influential roles in the life and development of the Congregation in America. They are written in commemoration of the Xaverian Brothers 150th Anniversary of their arrival in America in 1854. Written by Brother Thomas Ryan,…[read more]
Posted on April 30, 2013 by The Editor - Community
If it is true that there is a special place in heaven for those who make community life livable for others, then Paul Groom certainly is enjoying a double crown. As Brother Cornelius Hubbuch commented on Paul’s years at Ryken High…[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 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]
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