by Donovan Walsh | Dec 2, 2021 | Blog Articles
In 1541, St. Francis Xavier was sent to India to be a missionary by the pope, and he spent many years there. While he was in India, St, Francis Xavier spent much of his time caring for the sick and the children of the area while also converting many to Christianity....
by Donovan Walsh | Dec 1, 2021 | Blog Articles
Francis Xavier was born in 1506 in the Kingdom of Navarre in Spain. His family was quite prosperous. In 1525, he went to the University of Paris to begin studies. Four years later, in 1529, he roomed with a man named Pierre Favre, perhaps better known to us as Peter...
by admin | Nov 30, 2021 | Prayer of the Month
May the presence of the Holy Spirit, through the prayers of Mary, grant the Church unprecedented enthusiasm in the catechetical work that is essential for her. Thus will she effectively carry out, at this moment of grace her inalienable and universal mission, the...
by Timothy Bishop, SJ | Nov 30, 2021 | Monthly Reflection
Let us pray for the catechists, summoned to announce the Word of God: may they be its witnesses, with courage and creativity and in the power of the Holy Spirit. When I was in my second year of the Jesuit novitiate, I was missioned to the interior of Guyana, South...
by admin | Nov 30, 2021 | Pope Video
Do you remember when you went to catechism? Perhaps at that time you didn’t realize it, but—as the Pope tells us in his video for December—“catechists have an invaluable mission for the transmission and growth of the faith.” In the words of Francis, “Being a catechist...
